TSPDT

Key Production Countries: USA, Australia
Key Genres: Thriller, Science Fiction, Sci-Fi Action, Crime, Fantasy, Adventure
Key Collaborators: Zach Staenberg (Editor), Joel Silver (Producer), Bill Pope (Cinematographer), Don Davis (Composer), Owen Paterson (Production Designer), Keanu Reeves (Leading Actor), Laurence Fishburne (Leading Actor), Carrie-Anne Moss (Leading Actress), Hugo Weaving (Leading Character Actor), Joe Pantoliano (Leading Character Actor), Jada Pinkett (Leading Character Actress), Gloria Foster (Leading Character Actress)

"Brothers Larry [Lana] and Andy [Lilly] Wachowski… have achieved comprehensive critical and financial success… Inspired by Frank Miller's stylish comic-book series Sin City and the work both brothers undertook at Marvel comics writing dialogue for the Hellraiser series, their work is heavily stylised, seductive, glossy, and richly laden with mythological and theological conceits." - Peter Homden (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)

"Lilly and Lana Wachowski have made careers from breaking the mould and offering English-language cinema (and TV) interesting and fresh universes to explore. Their adeptness at building new and exciting worlds, combined with their desires to push the boundaries of technology, are matched only by their preference to showcase stories that are purposefully inclusive of age, gender, race and sexuality. Despite the brave and positive steps the sisters have taken in the midst of a conservative and problematic Hollywood studio system, the jury is still out on whether or not the quality of their finished work adds up to the sums of their parts." - Joseph Wade (The Film Magazine, 2017)

"Intensely private, imaginative filmmakers who rose to prominence with the techo-thriller actioner The Matrix (1999) and its sequels, after moderate success with the film Bound (1996)." - The Film Encyclopedia, 2012

"Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations. Visionary films like The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas have made them the world's most influential transgender media producers, and their coming out retroactively put trans aesthetics at the very center of popular American culture." - University of Illinois Press, 2018

"The bonds of siblinghood can forge great things, and in the case of Lana and Lilly Wachowski, they have created a vision that has revolutionized the modern approach to sci-fi action cinema. Even if their ideas for individual stylistic and artistic flourishes may not be entirely original, their remarkable talent for combining the best of both the action and sci-fi universes with high-concept, nearly mythological storytelling has resulted in a film that has been imitated, emulated, and parodied arguably more than any other in genre history, The Matrix (1999)." - Allmovie

"There's directors like John Ford and Christopher Nolan who find a tone and stick with it throughout their careers, we're not like that. We're always looking for the range of what we see in life. That creates a tension between us and our audience because they don't know what to expect. It makes people excited, but it can also make for frustrated consumers." - Lana Wachowski