15 Mind-Altering Facts About 'The Matrix' To Make You Say Whoa On Its 15th Anniversary

It’s been 15 years since Morpheus took us along on Neo’s ride into the Matrix in the Wachowski brothers science fiction masterpiece. Since that time we’ve had two lesser sequels and countless knockoffs attempting to recapture some of the original movie’s cinematic wizardry and inventive storytelling. From the secret of those bullet time sequences to the studio’s first choice for the role of Neo, getting The Matrix made was no easy process.