Watch Stand Up Guys Online Hollywoodreporter' title='Watch Stand Up Guys Online Hollywoodreporter' />The Wachowskis Wikipedia. Lana Wachowski. Born. Laurence Wachowski1. June 2. 1, 1. 96. Chicago, Illinois, United States. Other names. Larry Wachowski before 2. Occupation. Film and tv director, screenwriter, and producer, comic book writer and publisher. Years active. 19. SpousesThea Bloom m. Karin Winslow m.  2. Lilly Wachowski. Born. Andrew Paul Wachowski1. December 2. 9, 1. Chicago, Illinois, United States. Other names. Andy Wachowski before 2. Occupation. Film and tv director, screenwriter, and producer, comic book writer and publisher. Years active. 19. SpousesAlisa Blasingame m. Lana Wachowski formerly Laurence Larry Wachowski, born June 2. Lilly Wachowski formerly Andrew Paul Andy Wachowski, born December 2. American film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They are siblings, and are both trans women. Collectively known as The Wachowskis1. The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1. Bound, and achieved fame with their second film The Matrix 1. Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions both in 2. Following the commercial success of The Matrix series, they wrote and produced the 2. V for Vendetta an adaptation of the comic of the same name by Alan Moore, and in 2. Speed Racer, which was a live action adaptation of the Japanese anime series of the same name. Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell and co written and co directed by Tom Tykwer, was released in 2. The TCA panel for The Orville started with a question about Star Trek, so creator MacFarlane outlined what he saw as the relationship between that and The Orville. Live Feed, a Hollywood entertainment news blog, covers breaking television show news and provides TV Nielsen ratings analysis. Their film Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix series Sense. J. Michael Straczynski, both debuted in 2. Sense. 8 was canceled after two seasons in June 2. The sisters have worked as a writing and directing unit throughout their professional film careers from Bound through the first season of Sense. Following her gender transition, Lilly Wachowski took a break from active writing and directing Lana worked on the second season of Sense. Early lifeeditLana was born Laurence Wachowski in Chicago in 1. Lilly was born Andrew Paul Wachowski two and a half years later, in 1. Their mother Lynne ne Luckinbill was a nurse and painter. Their father Ron Wachowski was a businessman of Polish descent. Their uncle is the actor and Primetime Emmy Award winning producer Laurence Luckinbill. They have two additional sisters Julie and Laura. Julie was credited as assistant coordinator in the Wachowskis film Bound 1. Lana and Lilly attended Kellogg Elementary School in Chicagos Beverly area, and they graduated from Whitney Young High School, known for its performing arts and science curriculum, in 1. Former classmates recall their playing Dungeons Dragons and working in the schools theater and TV program. Lana went to Bard College in New York and Lilly attended Emerson College in Boston. Watch Dead On Campus Online Earnthenecklace. Both dropped out before graduating. After dropping out of college, the Wachowskis ran a house painting and construction business in Chicago while writing for Marvel Comics1. Razorline imprint, namely Ectokid created by horror novelist Clive Barker in 1. They also wrote the series Clive Barkers Hellraiser and Clive Barkers Nightbreed for Epic Comics. In the mid 1. 99. Assassins in 1. 99. Richard Donner and released in 1. Warner Bros. bought the script and included two more pictures in the contract. Donner had their script totally rewritten by Brian Helgeland2. Watch Around The World In 80 Days Download Full there. Wachowskis tried unsuccessfully to remove their names from the film. They say the experience gave them the perspective that they should become directors or they will never survive as writers in this town. Their next project was the 1. Bound, for which they wrote the script and made their debut as directors. The film was well received for its style and craft,2. Taking advantage of the positive buzz, the Wachowskis asked to direct their next picture, The Matrix. InfluenceseditJ. Michael Straczynski, who has worked with the Wachowskis on Ninja Assassin and Sense. Writers Digest magazine, for inspiration and pointers. Straczynski contributed to the magazine from 1. In 1. 99. 8, in the context of explaining how they got their start in filmmaking, the Wachowskis mentioned Roger Cormans book, How I Made A Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, and indicated, with laughter, that they liked his movies, and began by wanting to make a low budget horror movie. In the same interview, they expressed being flattered, after their first film, by comparisons to the Coen brothers, who had made five, maybe six great movies at that time. Speaking to Bernard Weintraub of The New York Times in April 1. Wachowskis mention explicitly preparing for their first Matrix production by studying the works of John Woo and other Hong Kong filmmakers, as well as reading and rereading Homers Odyssey, and studying the works of John Huston, Stanley Kubrick, Fritz Lang, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, and Billy Wilder. Mark Miller, writing in Wired in 2. Homer, Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and philosopher Cornel West. In an interview with Gadfly in 2. Wachowskis reiterated their influence by or enjoyment of Huston e. Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Wilder e. Sunset Boulevard and Lost Weekend, and added to these the impacts of Alfred Hitchcock e. Strangers on a Train and Psycho, Roman Polanski e. Repulsion, and Francis Ford Coppola the Godfather movies, and The Conversation. Ken Wilber has been cited as an influence. The Matrix franchiseeditThis section needs expansion with a more thorough overview of this franchise, here, effectively summarizing the wikilinked main article, so that readers desiring to understand the importance of this set of creative works in the Wachowskis creative development and history do not have to leave the page. You can help by adding to it. September 2. They completed The Matrix, a science fictionaction film, in 1. The movie stars Keanu Reeves as Neo, a hacker recruited by a rebellion to aid them in the fight against machines who have taken over the world and placed humanity inside a simulated reality called the Matrix. Laurence Fishburne, Carrie Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Joe Pantoliano also star. The movie was a critical and commercial hit for Warner Bros. It won four Academy Awards, including for Best Visual Effects for popularizing the bullet time visual effect. The Matrix came to be a major influence for action movies and has appeared in several greatest science fiction films lists. In 2. 01. 2, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. After its success, the Wachowskis directed two sequels back to back, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both released in 2. The Matrix Reloaded received positive critical reception, although not on the level of the original. It became a major box office hit, retaining the spot of the highest grossing R rated film for over a decade until 2. Deadpool. 3. 4The Matrix Revolutions received a mixed to negative critical reception and performed lukewarmly in the box office. While it was profitable it made slightly less money than the original film. During production of the first film, the Wachowskis and Spencer Lamm, who ran the films official website, developed comics based on the setting of the film, which were published free of charge on the website. These and a few short stories were released in three series from 1. The Wachowskis themselves contributed Bits and Pieces, a prequel to the movie that explains the origins of the Matrix, featuring illustrations by Geof Darrow, the movies conceptual designer. Other writers and artists that contributed to the series include Neil Gaiman, Dave Gibbons, Paul Chadwick, Ted Mc. Keever, Poppy Z. Brite, and Steve Skroce.