Lana Wachowski

Lana Wachowski (née Laurence Wachowski) is a phenomenal screenwriter, TV and Film director. Lana was born on June 21, 1965. Lana Wachowski is the creative mind behind The Matrix that released in the year 1999. She is a Transgender woman who underwent gender transition in 2000. Other notable works of Lana Wachowski include Cloud Atlas Click to look into! >> Read More... (2012), Speed Racer (2008) and V for Vendetta (2006). Lana Wachowski, formerly known as Larry Wachowski, was born to Ron Wachowski, an executive and, Lynne Luckinbill, a painter and nurse. Lana grew in the household with three siblings – Lilly, Laura, and Julie. Lana, along with Lilly, once called The Wachowski Brothers professionally. After their gender transformation, this successful director duo renamed as The Wachowskis created Cloud Atlas. Lana Wachowski underwent schooling at the Kellogg Elementary School in Beverly.

Subsequently, she took courses related to theater and TV in Whitney Young Magnet High in Illinois of Chicago in the year 1983. Lana Wachowski later attended New York’s Bard College but bowed out to pursue in comic creation. She co-wrote a comic by the name Ecktokid, in 1993 fabricated by the author Clive Barker, with her sibling Lilly. Succeeding this Marvel Comic creation, Lana helped Clive Barker create the comic series Nightbreed and Hellraiser. Lana’s directorial debut was the thriller film Bound in 1996. Before this picture, Lana Wachowski worked with the director Richard Donner Richard Donner was a filmmaker who produced some f >> Read More... for the script of the 1994 movie Assassins. Brian Helgeland Born on January 17, 1961, Brian Helgeland is one o >> Read More... redrafts the script for this film, but Lana Wachowski is given credit as the original scriptwriter. Lana Wachowski’s interest then drifted towards film direction and the launching film Bound is well received.

With this encouragement, Lana Wachowski compiled the fictional world of Matrix that she subsequently directed with her sibling Lilly. The movie The Matrix completed post-production and released in 1999, is a huge commercial hit. This motion picture has the leading man Keanu Reeves A very skilled actor, having a career spanning mor >> Read More... as the hacker Neo to fight simulated reality. At the favorable outcome of the film, Lana Wachowski shot sequel to The Matrix in 2003 with the name The Matrix Reloaded. The trilogy ended with The Matrix Revolutions released on November 5, 2003. Spencer Lamm, who marketed comics with the same name in The Matrix official website, wrote the prequel to the series with inputs from Lana Wachowski between the years 1999 and 2004. Being an avid gamer, Lana directed video games like The Matrix Online and The Matrix: Path of Neo.

The Matrix series won Lana Wachowski many awards including Saturn Awards’ Best Director, Readers’ Choice Award in the year 2000. With the success of The Matrix in mind, Lana Wachowski directed the movie V for Vendetta in 2003. She is highly inspired by a comic book with the name V for Vendetta written by Alan Moore and thus created a feature film. Her other inspirations include Roger Corman, John Woo John Woo is a film director, producer, and writer. >> Read More... , and Michael Straczynski One of the Hollywood heavyweights in terms of scri >> Read More... . Subsequent ventures of Lana Wachowski are Speed Racer, Ninja Assassin and Cloud Atlas. Though these feature films have a remarkable cast, they failed to impress the regular moviegoers but acclaimed critically for visual effects. Lana Wachowski chose to stay anonymous regarding her gender during the early 2000’s. Following the success of The Matrix trilogy, she publicly lived as a woman.

During the release of Cloud Atlas in 2012, Lana spoke about her suicidal tendency due to the confusion of her identity. However, once she accepted herself, she became a more content personality with charisma. She was the recipient of HRC’s Visibility Award in October 2012. Her acceptance speech addressed the anonymity issue and privacy concerns of her. Eventually, Lana Wachowski won the Equality Illinois’s Freedom Award in the year 2014. Previously, Lana Wachowski married Thea Bloom in 1993 but divorced from her in 2002. Lana is currently married to Karin Winslow since 2009. The more recent work of Lana Wachowski is Jupiter Ascending Click to look into! >> Read More... , which is an original opera in space. This film opened to the crowd in 2015 with average openings and bombed at the box office. Lana Wachowski eventually turned to produce the Netflix original series Sense8 that the audience welcomed comparatively well. The next season of the serial Sense8 is in post-production stage and is set to stream on Netflix on May 5, 2017.