The Matrix: Red Pill Rescue (Fan Film)

The Matrix: Red Pill Rescue is a short fan film based off the a specific mission from the chapter of the same name in The Matrix: Path of Neo video game. A trailer was released on March 12, 2020, with the final film debuting on March 24, 2020. 
The film was created by stunt performer Andrew J. Neis, with help from local indie filmmakers. The film won "Best Action Sequence" at the Urban Action Showcase film festival on Nov. 6th, 2020.
== Plot ==
Neo and another operative drive through Chinatown in a black Lincoln Town Car, looking for The Healer. The operative mentions that he is waking up because he has found a glitch in the system in the form of an herbal medicine, and advises Neo to act quickly before the "suits" (Agents) get to him first. Neo locates Red Pill Herbal Remedies shoppe, where the Healer is in the middle of creating an herbal remedy for a sick loved one. The Healer narrates that the herb he is using is "forbidden", and that those that use it, "are taken by Demons". Being elderly, it is believed the Healer thinks that Zion operatives and Agents, with their gravity-defying feats, are not human, and because they tend to dress strange and cover their eyes as they remove people from his world, that they are demons. He also mentions that the "gangs have already tried to come for the herb" as he tends to a broken wrist.
The Healer leaves with Neo and is taken back to the Town Car, and the Zion operative mentions that the Chinatown gang is looking for them. Neo instructs them to get out, and that he will find his own exit. He is cornered in an alley by the Chinatown gang, and fights them off.
== Production ==
Red Pill Rescue was created mostly by stunt performers. It started as a concept fight scene: One person fighting off multiple attackers, using Tonfa that had throwing stars embedded in them. Upon shooting the concept fight inside a gym, the stunt performers felt it could look even better as a produced fight with costumes, lighting, and location. The idea was come up with to do a "Matrix Fan Fight Scene", since the style of fight was similar to Reloaded's Chateau Showdown. Once the fight was shot, they felt that it should be completed with more scenes and a story to make an original Fan Film.
The film has several easter eggs:
-Each character wears official Matrix sunglasses: The driver wearing the Blinde design black "Twins" version, Neo wearing Blinde design "Neo" version, and the Chinatown Gang wearing Seraph, Niobe, and Blinde design Bagel jr. float (worn by in the Chateau Showdown).
-The line "Next exit is on 3rd and Moss", is a reference to Carrie Anne-Moss and 3 for Trinity.
-The line "The Healer is down Woo-Ping alley", is a reference to fight director Yuen Woo-Ping.
-The film was shot in some of the same filming locations as The Matrix Resurrections (San Francisco Chinatown)
-Two of the cast went on to work on The Matrix Resurrections shortly after filming the fan short.
== Cast ==
*Andrew J. Neis as Neo
*Panukant Putkaew as The Healer
*Mostafa Elmorsy as Lincoln
*Leonard Zhang as The Healer (voice)
*Christopher L. Adams as Chinatown Gang leader
== External links ==
*The Matrix: Red Pill Rescue on Youtube
*The Matrix: Red Pill Rescue on fanfilms.net
Category:Fan films