The Art of the Matrix

Licensed by the creators of the film, a pre-production archive of artwork and conceptual drawings offers insight into its groundbreaking special effects and includes complete storyboards, the screenplay, and artist commentary. 20,000 first printing.

Larry and Andy Wachowski (The Wachowski Brothers) previously wrote and directed the motion picture Bound. Steve Skroce was one of the principal artists on the Marvel Comics series Gambit and Wolverine. Geof Darrow co-created the Dark Horse Comics' title Hard Boiled. Tani Kunitake was an illustrator for the motion pictures Armageddon and Batman and Robin. Zach Staenberg received an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for The Matrix, as well as an American Cinema Editor's Eddie Award. He was also the editor of the films Bound, Nowhere to Run, and the HBO Television production Gotti, for which he won his first Eddie Award in addition to being nominated for an Emmy and Cable Ace award. < He lives in New York.