The Matrix 4: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Reportedly Playing Young Morpheus

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is just one of the new faces joining Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix 4, and though his role had been kept mostly under wraps, a new report suggests that he is indeed playing a younger version of a familiar character.

According to The Illuminerdi, Mateen will be playing a younger Morpheus in the movie. We don't have that many details yet, but it has been said that Mateen's role is one of the leading ones. My guess is that Neo (Reeves) will now take on the mentor role that Morpheus originally had and train young Morpheus leading up to the point where he grows up into Laurence Fishburne to search of "The One"—closing the loop for the story of The Matrix.

We don't have any official plot for the film, but it has been going around that the Matrix trilogy itself will actually be a video game in this return to the world. What if Neo and the rest of humanity were just part of another, more complicated system that would just stem on and on? What if the original Matrix was just a bad walkthrough in this new world?

Going back to Mateen though, I think he would actually play the part of young Morpheus well. Morpheus has always talked in this calm, slightly robotic voice, and Mateen pretty much did the same with his work on HBO's Watchmen series. Let's hope his Morpheus manages to amaze.

Catch The Matrix 4 when it hits theaters May 21, 2021.

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