Warner Bros. now has a second Matrix prequel under its belt. Notice the synthetic cityscapes and their simula that resemble the brain, the well-dressed and their gunplay (and gun jokes), water metaphors, squared modernist production design, goons on rooftops.  Toying with dream architecture, Nolan has built an entrance, a software component to link the slumbering into temporary LANs (local area network), that might one day be the logic for Skynet's human enslavement hinted at in McG's Terminator Salvation, which ultimately heads in the direction of WB's seminal myth of 1999. Is Warner Bros. aware of these overlaps from a branding point of view? Next: WB does a big budget remake of Videodrome...