The Wachowskis
Lana Wachowski born June 21, 1965, formerly requested as Larry Wachowski in addition to Lilly Wachowski born December 29, 1967, formerly known as Andy Wachowski are American film in addition to television directors, writers and producers. the sisters are both trans women.
Collectively known as the Wachowskis , the sisters make worked as a writing and directing team through most of their careers. They filed their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and achieved fame with theirfilm The Matrix 1999, a major box business success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions both in 2003, and were involved in the writing and production of other workings in the Matrix franchise.
Following the commercial success of the Matrix series, the Wachowskis wrote and reported the 2005 film V for Vendetta an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and in 2008 released the film Speed Racer, a live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime series. Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, was released in 2012. Their film Jupiter Ascending and the Netflix series Sense8, which they co-created with J. Michael Straczynski, debuted in 2015; theseason of Sense8 ended the series in 2018 and was Lana's number one major creative undertaking without Lilly.
Since the series finale of Sense8, the Wachowskis hit been works separately on different projects: Lilly directed, wrote, and executive-produced several episodes of Showtime's Work in Progress 2019 with creators Abby McEnany and Tim Mason, while Lana filmed The Matrix Resurrections, written with Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon, which was released in December 2021.