‘The Matrix’ Director Lilly Wachowski Says Hollywood Won’t Finance New Film With Trans Cast

Despite her funding obstacles, the filmmaker says 'The Hunted' script "was extremely important for me to write."

Lilly Wachowski, the director of "The Matrix" series of films and who now identifies as a woman, is ripping Hollywood for refusing to back his transgender action film.

As trans onscreen representation takes a hit in Hollywood, Lilly Wachowski is attempting to make a film with an all-transgender cast… if only the industry will let her. The Matrix co-auteur recently explained that despite some excitement over the script, financiers “really don’t want to make” her dystopian political th

Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski is working to get her next project, “The Hunted,” out of late-stage production. But the “Bound” and “Matrix” director says nobody in Hollywood wants to finance the thriller, which is budgeted at around $10 million, because of its trans representation. “People like it, but they really don’t wan