And for anyone who wants to check: US release of "The Matrix" was March 31st 1999
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The character of Switch was originally meant to be male in the real world and female in the Matrix. Warner Brothers put a stop to that.
Not sure why, would have been a pretty cool addition to the universe.
I can imagine nowadays people saying it's "too woke" though.
All studio execs do is "mitigate" movies to appeal to a broader audience...
An analogy would be a corporate chef who removes garlic from a tomato sauce so that people who don't like garlic will eat it, and those that do will know something is missing but can't complain too much because... endless salad and breadsticks, plus mom likes the "atmosphere"
Replace garlic with trans character, and endless salads and breadsticks with the MCU
If you think that society was friendlier to trans people in 1999 compared to 2024, you are mistaken.
I can think of one reasonable reason for it. They'd be harder to identify between the two versions. It makes some sense to not change the look that much (or the actor if that was the plan) to not confuse the audience.
Makes sense. Sucks it never happened though because that would have been a cool idea.