‘Matrix’ Director Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won’t Fund Her Trans-Cast Film
Hollywood financiers are refusing the $10 million project because it centers a predominantly transgender ensemble, forcing Wachowski to seek other ways to get it made.
- Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood financiers refuse to back her $10 million dystopian thriller "The Hunted" due to its "wall-to-wall trans cast," she explained on KCRW's The Business podcast last Friday.
- Co-Written with partner Mickey Ray Mahoney, the political thriller is set in a dystopian America where trans people face brutalization; two women search for a perpetrator leading to the highest reaches of government.
- Facing development difficulties, Wachowski recently assembled a live table read at Los Angeles' Dynasty Typewriter theater on August 7-8, with the project in development through Anarchists United and Natasha Lyonne's Ariadne banner.
- A recent GLAAD study found zero transgender characters in 225 films from 10 major distributors released in 2025, with LGBTQ representation declining 3% for the third consecutive year since a 2023 peak of 28.5%.
- Wachowski described the script as a "hugely cathartic receptacle" for her anger regarding trans people's treatment, and she plans to find creative ways to present the project to audiences despite industry resistance.
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The director shared with the American channel KCRW her disappointment at the reception reserved for her script, conceived as "an answer to what is happening in the world right now for trans people".
Lilly Wachowski recently spoke about the problems she has had in getting Hollywood to finance the film she has been working on for a couple of years, The Hunted. From a dystopian scenario, the film addresses the problem of discrimination against trans people, however, the filmmaker said that the industry has not exactly wanted to support the film project because its distribution is made up of trans people.
‘Matrix’ Director Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won’t Fund Her Trans-Cast Film
Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood refuses to finance her new dystopian thriller, The Hunted, because of its “wall-to-wall trans cast.” Speaking on KCRW’s The Business podcast, Wachowski said the $10 million film has been well-received on paper, but studios won’t commit. “People like it, but they really don’t want to make it,” she said. Wachowski co-wrote the script with partner Mickey Ray Mahoney, describing it as “a response to …
The vision of one of the authors of "The Matrix" collided with the wall of Hollywood. Nobody wants to finance her new film "The Hunted", and the reason, claims Lily Wachowski, is the uncompromising decision to cast the entire cast of transgender people.
Lilly Wachowski has exploded against Hollywood producers, as none of them want to develop their new film because they have a complete trans cast.What bothers Lilly Wachowski most is that the script has convinced several people and their film is relatively cheap, only that no one wants the trans cast.Lilly Wachowski cannot make his film for the trans castAccording to Variety, Lilly Wachowski has not been able to advance in his new film, "The Haun…
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