{"id":11407,"date":"2014-12-23T05:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T09:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11407"},"modified":"2014-12-20T20:44:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T00:44:06","slug":"15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11407","title":{"rendered":"15 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About &#8220;The Matrix&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z122314matrix_facts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"595\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Sean Hutchinson<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mental Floss<\/strong><\/a> present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/60336\/15-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-matrix\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>15 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About The Matrix<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are my three favorite facts&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>1. THE FILM STARTED AS A COMIC BOOK.<\/h4>\n<p>Filmmakers Lana (then known as Larry) and Andy Wachowski originally conceived the storyline for <em>The Matrix<\/em> as a comic. They had both previously written comic books for Marvel.<\/p>\n<h4>5. BOTH WILL SMITH AND NICOLAS CAGE FORMALLY TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF NEO.<\/h4>\n<p>Tom Cruise, Johnny Depp, and Leonardo DiCaprio were all also considered before the filmmakers settled on Keanu Reeves for the part.<\/p>\n<h4>6. RUSSELL CROWE, SEAN CONNERY, AND SAMUEL L. JACKSON COULD\u2019VE BEEN MORPHEUS.<\/h4>\n<p>When they declined, Laurence Fishburne took the role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Hutchinson and Mental Floss present 15 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know About The Matrix. Here are my three favorite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}