Dark City: The Older Cousin The Matrix Never Credited

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Fourteen months before The Matrix taught a generation to ask whether the world was real, Alex Proyas had already answered the question and shown the machinery behind the curtain. Dark City opened in February 1998 to modest business and a shrug, and then spent two decades being rediscovered as the film that got there first — the reality-is-a-lie neo-noir the later blockbuster stands on. The overlap is not coincidence and not quite theft. Both films were shot at Fox Studios Australia, and some of the standing sets Proyas built for his eternal night were reused, redressed, for the machine world the Wachowskis unveiled the following year. The older cousin never got the credit, and the family resemblance is impossible to miss once you have seen both.

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Dark City: The Older Cousin The Matrix Never Credited