I have been doing a lot of work on the screenplay - a couple of hours a day usually - this week, rearranging the order of scenes, sprucing up some of the dialogue and trying to write the few scenes that still have not been fully written. I'm hoping to be done the first draft by late May/early June.

I managed to get my hands on a copy of this month's Creative Screenwriting Magazine which had a great article about the Wachowski Brothers' development process for the Matrix screenplay. I also found out the mysterious Brothers Wachowski also wrote the clunker Antonio Banderas/Robert DeNiro pic Assassins , which is important only because it proves that nobody is perfect.

Further on the Matrix front yesterday, I went to see The Matrix Reloaded. Nothing could have really topped the original, but it was very slick, very cool and one of those movies that makes you want to make movies. The much hypd "Burly Brawl" with Keanu Reeves (Neo) fighting 100+ Huge Weavings (Agent Smith) looked very CG-ish, but overall Reloaded is definitely worth checking out on the big screen. I can't wait until The Matrix Revolutions comes out in November to see how they resolve the trilogy.

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