Before Keanu Reeves became the vengeance-driven John Wick, he was known as an action antihero in a different kind of world: Most memorably, the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk setting of The Matrix (1999) and its two sequels, which have collectively become an icon of modern science fiction.

He'll be facing some ominous sentient machines once again, as seen in the new teaser trailer for Replicas, coming soon to theaters.

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Replicas is set in a dystopic future that runs on advanced technology. Reeves plays Will Foster, a synthetic biologist who loses his wife and children in a car accident and intends to bring them back by imprinting their minds into synthetic brains with robotic bodies.

The trailer suggests that this plan works about as well as any well-versed sci-fi fan would expect, with one of the newly imprinted robots about to panic, and Foster admitting that something has already gone horribly wrong.

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To be released later this year, Replicas is a production of Entertainment Studios and Riverstone Pictures and is rated PG-13. It's directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff and written by Chad St. John, and stars Keanu Reeves, Alice Even, Thomas Middleditch, Emily Alyn Lind, Emjay Anthony, Nyasha Hatendi and John Ortiz.