Larry Wachowski (born June 21, 1965) and Andy Wachowski (born December 29, 1967) are film directors.

Born and raised in Chicago, the Wachowskis jokingly claim to have begun their collaboration as toddlers. Both dropped out of college to pursue show business and both overcame some major hurdles on their way to success. Before entering show business, they ran a carpentry business in Chicago while creating comic books in their free time.

Since their hit with The Matrix, studios are clamoring for whatever else they have ever worked on. Trimark has bought an unproduced script they wrote years ago, Carnivore, a creepy tale about a boarding house whose residents keep disappearing. The brothers will executive-produce it, while horror veteran George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead) will likely direct.

The brothers admit to a love for telling multi-part stories. "Because we grew up on comic books and the Tolkien trilogy, one of the things we're interested in is bringing serial fiction to cinema," Larry explains. "If you could have a film where you don't get to the hour-and-a-half mark and know, 'Okay, here it comes, the big wrap-up,' but instead you have no idea how the movie's going to end, I think that would be very exciting.". Andy puts his desire to shake up viewers a bit more bluntly. "We think movies are fairly boring and predictable. We want to screw with audience's expectations."

The Wachowski Brothers are mentioned on the autodidacticism (self-teaching) page.

Personal Lives

Andy has been married to Alisa Blasingame since 1991.

In 2003, Larry's wife of nine years, Thea Bloom , divorced him on the grounds that she felt there had been dishonesty in their personal and financial lives, and sought financial remedy.

For more information, see the Wachowski Brothers discussion page.

Quotes

• "The Wachowski Brothers are very unique. They are probably- - Larry and Andy are probably two of the smartest people I know. Larry reads everything. He reads everything. I mean, everything, you know what I mean. One thing I learned through Larry, through Andy also, is that life is about research. Larry, he's constantly researching. And he's constantly reading and that's one thing that I've taken away from this project, that life is about research." - Jada Pinkett Smith

Filmography

• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) (written & directed)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) (written & directed)
• The Matrix (1999) (written & directed)
• Bound (1996) (written & directed)
• Assassins (1995) (story, screenplay credits)
• Carnivore - unreleased
• Plastic Man - unreleased
• Primavista - online

External links

• Die Wachowski-Geschwister, biography (German).
• In 'Matrix,' the Wachowski Brothers Unleash a Comic Book of Ideas interview by The New York Times.
• The Many Meanings of The Matrix, Larry Wachowski in dialogue with philosopher Ken Wilber.
• Matrix Revelations, Wired Magazine article about the Wachowski brothers.