Hollywood Won’t Make The Matrix Director’s New Action Movie for a Controversial Reason
Wachowski says buyers are wary of the $10 million film because it centers trans characters, while a live table read was staged to keep the project moving.
- 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 Independent (US)Matrix director claims she can’t finance new film because it has fully trans cast
Director said that Hollywood wasn’t keen to make ‘The Hunted’ due to its ‘wall-to-wall trans cast’
For a long time, nothing belongs to the Wachowski brothers and sisters, once forming style with the film »Matrix«. Possibly because Hollywood is reluctant to deal with trans-themes. Lilly Wachowski lamented this.
The Matrix director Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won't finance her film over its trans cast
“People like it, but they really don’t want to make it because it’s [got a] wall-to-wall trans cast,” she said The post The Matrix director Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won’t finance her film over its trans cast appeared first on Attitude.
Lilly Wachowski's new film faces funding struggle over trans cast
The Matrix director says she is looking for new routes to audiences after financiers “really don’t want to make” the project. The post The Matrix’s Lilly Wachowski says Hollywood won’t back her new film over “wall-to-wall trans cast” appeared first on PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news.
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