Hollywood legend on return to iconic movie franchise. ‘I don’t know if it makes sense.’

A longtime film star recently opened up about returning to a classic movie series.

Laurence Fishburne, who played Morpheus in the iconic “Matrix” franchise, said it wouldn’t be so simple for him to reprise his well-known role.

The actor was noncommittal when asked if he would return for an upcoming fifth installment of “The Matrix” during a reunion panel at New York Comic Con over the weekend.

“It depends on how good it is, really,” Fishburne said, per Variety. “If it’s great, then yeah, if it makes sense. I don’t know if it makes sense.”

It was announced in 2024 that screenwriter Drew Goddard would write and direct the new Matrix film. This will be the first Matrix movie not led by Lana and Lilly Wachowski although Lana will serve as an executive producer.

Fishburne, 64, said that he reached out to Lana Wachowski about joining “The Matrix Resurrections,” the series’ fourth film which released in 2021, but was not invited to return.

Yaya Abdul-Mateen II was casted as Morpheus in Resurrections.

“I reached out,” Fishburne said. “It just didn’t pan out. I said, ‘Thank you very much,’ and Lana said, ‘Thank you very much, I’ll think about it,’ and that was that.”

He has yet to be approached about a return for the fifth film as well, per the report. It has not been announced whether stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss will return for the next film .

“There’s no movie that comes after The Matrix that’s a sci-fi action or fantasy movie that’s not been influenced by it,” Fishburne said. “It’s everywhere. It’s so pervasive you almost forget where it came from at this point. Now, people don’t realize, but no Matrix, no MCU. It (just) doesn’t look the same.”