<story><title>Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018)</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028904/jet-li-says-he-rejected-matrix-because-he-didnt-want-his-kung-fu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Imagine they if they told Keanu Reeves to records all the words of the dictionary and all his facial expressions and body postures and keep it as IP forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>royjacobs</author><text>To be fair, the technology and storage available in the early 2000s would have been quite sufficient to store all of Reeves&amp;#x27; facial expressions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jet Li rejected The Matrix as he didn’t want his kung fu moves recorded (2018)</title><url>https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3028904/jet-li-says-he-rejected-matrix-because-he-didnt-want-his-kung-fu</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>Imagine they if they told Keanu Reeves to records all the words of the dictionary and all his facial expressions and body postures and keep it as IP forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unishark</author><text>In return for the 100+ million dollars he got out of it?&lt;p&gt;Li&amp;#x27;s role would only have been in the sequels anyway, not the one good movie...&lt;p&gt;Seriously though, for such a deal if one gets a percentage as royalties perpetually too, then it may be a good arrangement. I think Li&amp;#x27;s objections could have al been addressed as terms in the deal. Apparently what Li is saying is the terms offered were one-sided and he didn&amp;#x27;t like them.</text></comment>