For her return, Lilly Wachowski intends to move away from the saga Matrix and her sister Lana, but not science fiction or trans.
Since the end of the series Sense8the previously conjoined careers of Lana and Lilly Wachowski took different paths. While Lana set about relaunching the saga that made them known with Matrix ResurrectionsLilly stepped away from directing to concentrate on writing, particularly for the comedy series Work in Progress broadcast on Showtime.
She also served as executive producer of two short films, the first being I’m in Love with Edgar Allan Poewritten and directed by Andrea A. Walter, a non-binary artist whom Lilly took under her wing. The second is All the Words But the Onewritten, directed and starring transgender filmmaker Nava Mau (recently seen in My little reindeer on Netflix). LGTBQ+ themes, in particular on transidentity, are therefore more than ever at the heart of Lilly Wachowski’s workand the subject could be tackled even more head-on (and humorously) in his next works.
ALL IN TRANCE
In a recent interview for the site AutostraddleLilly Wachowski revealed that she was currently working on several projects combining science fiction and transidentity, without specifying whether or not she would be directing:
“I am participating in the adaptation of two books about trans people: Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin and Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg. I’m also trying to adapt a wonderful comic book, called Cosmoknights, with Emily Andras, the woman behind [la série] Wynonna Earp. They’re lesbians in space! It’s fantastic! So I’m all over the place! I try to do everything at once. »
Manhunt takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where testosterone turns people into zombies. The story follows two transgender women who must escape hordes of zombies, but also violent TERFs (a branch of feminism excluding trans people) who want their skin. As for Confessions of the Foxhe reinvents the journey of the thief Jack Sheppard, who becomes a trans man in the slums of 18th century London.
Finally, Cosmoknights is originally a comic strip supervised by Hannah Templer where, to use the original synopsis, “a group of queers are determined to win their freedom by beating the patriarchy at its own game”all in a neo-medieval universe.
On the other hand, no news of Tash Mountainthe queer comedy-drama led by Caleb Hearon to be produced by Colin Trevorrow, the director of Jurassic World 1 et 3. Perhaps the project was put on hold while she sorted through her (many) ideas. But no matter what title it will be with, the simple return of Lilly Wachowski in front of and/or behind a camera will be a small event in itself that we will not fail to cover in detail.
