The Wachowskis
American filmmakers
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| April 2025 | Lilly Wachowski stated in an interview that she will not join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
| April 2024 | Warner Bros. announces development of a new Matrix installment with Drew Goddard as writer and director, and Lana Wachowski serving as executive producer. |
| February 2024 | Lily Wachowski announced as director of Trash Mountain, her first directorial effort since Jupiter Ascending, a film about a young gay man returning to rural Missouri after his father's death. |
| March 8 2022 | The film is released on Blu-ray, DVD, and Ultra HD Blu-Ray. |
| February 2022 | Village Roadshow sues Warner Bros. for breach of contract regarding the film's simultaneous HBO Max release. |
| January 25 2022 | The film is released digitally. |
| 2021 | Lana Wachowski worked on 'The Matrix Awakens', a video game/tech demo that explored new narrative and interactive storytelling techniques in the Matrix universe. |
| 2021 | Lilly Wachowski continued her involvement with Work in Progress until this year. |
| December 2021 | Lana releases The Matrix Resurrections, written with Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon. |
| December 22 2021 | The Matrix Resurrections is released in theaters and simultaneously on HBO Max. |
| January 2020 | Work in Progress is renewed for a 10-episode second season, with Lilly Wachowski continuing her involvement. |
| 2019 | Lilly Wachowski announced that Mickey Ray Mahoney was her partner and they had moved in together. |
| December 2019 | Work in Progress series premieres on Showtime. |
| August 2019 | Lana Wachowski announced as writer, director, and producer of The Matrix Resurrections, the fourth Matrix film, marking the first film made by only one of the Wachowskis. |
| May 2019 | Lilly Wachowski co-writes and co-showruns the first eight-episode season of the drama-comedy series Work in Progress for Showtime, created by Abby McEnany and Tim Mason. |
| 2018 | The second season of Sense8 ends the series, marking Lana's first major project without Lilly. |
| October 22 2018 | The Wachowskis announced plans to close and list their pre/post-production studio Kinowerks for $5 million. |
| June 2018 | Concluded Sense8 with a two-hour series finale after the third season was canceled. |
| May 2017 | Released the second season of Sense8 on Netflix. |
| March 2017 | The Hollywood Reporter published an article revealing a strained relationship between producer Joel Silver and the Wachowskis. |
| 2016 | Lilly Wachowski mentioned having a boyfriend. |
| 2016 | Lilly Wachowski mentioned having a boyfriend. The Advocate posted a video of Lana Wachowski supporting Bernie Sanders during the Democratic Party presidential primaries. |
| December 23 2016 | Released a Christmas special for Sense8 on Netflix. |
| June 2016 | Invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. |
| March 2016 | Lilly Wachowski made her first public appearance since beginning transition at the 27th GLAAD Media Awards, where she accepted an award for the Netflix series Sense8 for Outstanding Drama Series. |
| March 2016 | Lilly Wachowski publicly came out as a transgender woman, issuing a statement to the Windy City Times after a Daily Mail reporter attempted to interview her. She shared her perspective on transgender experiences, highlighting her privilege and support system. |
| 2015 | Released Jupiter Ascending, which had a budget of $176 million and earned $184 million at the box office. |
| 2015 | The Wachowskis debut Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix series Sense8, co-created with J. Michael Straczynski. |
| 2014 | They served as executive producers for the short film Google Me Love. |
| February 2014 | Lana received the Freedom Award from Equality Illinois at their annual gala in Chicago. |
| 2012 | Lana Wachowski wrote the introduction to the No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics collection, highlighting their support for LGBTQ comic book stories. |
| 2012 | The original Matrix film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. |
| October 2012 | Lana received the Human Rights Campaign's Visibility Award and gave a notable acceptance speech revealing her struggles with gender identity. |
| October 2012 | Continued interest in 'Cobalt Neural 9', with the Wachowskis having invested $5 million and remaining emotionally committed to the project. |
| September 2012 | Aleksandar Hemon recalled being invited by the Wachowskis in December 2009 to help inspire the script of Cobalt Neural 9. |
| September 2012 | Lana gave an interview to The New Yorker, sharing a childhood memory about gender identity from third grade. |
| September 2012 | Premiered Cloud Atlas at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation. The film was co-directed with Tom Tykwer and considered their most challenging and proudest project. |
| July 2012 | Lana made her first public appearance after transitioning in a video discussing the creative process behind Cloud Atlas. |
| December 2010 | The Hollywood Reporter reported that additional people like Salman Rushdie and Cornel West had shot talking head sequences for Cobalt Neural 9, but the project faced financing challenges. |
| December 2010 | Trade magazines and newspapers began referring to the filmmakers as 'Andy and Lana Wachowski'. |
| December 2010 | The Hollywood Reporter noted the Wachowskis were planning to direct 'Hood', a modern adaptation of the Robin Hood legend for Warner Bros., with potential interest from Will Smith. |
| August 2010 | The full name of the Iraq War project was revealed as Cobalt Neural 9. |
| July 2010 | Casting began for the Wachowskis' project under the codename CN9, later revealed as Cobalt Neural 9. |
| May 2010 | Developed a script for 'Cobalt Neural 9', a hard-R story about a homosexual relationship between an American soldier and an Iraqi, set across different time periods. |
| March 2010 | Jesse Ventura reported shooting for the Iraq War project, improvising as a future character without a script. |
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