Creators of 'The Matrix' have a new sci-fi project

Lana and Andy Wachowski look set to return to the genre that made them their names in Hollywood, with a mysterious new sci-fi idea they reportedly devised themselves.

The Wachowski brothers have had a torrid time since their critically-panned adaptation of 'Speed Racer', which delivered a psychedelic (but incoherent) version of the cult '60s animation.

They failed to get their film about a US soldier's homosexual relationship with an Iraqi off the ground, and so it seems like their next project after 'Cloud Atlas',  their adaptation of an epic, generation-spanning David Mitchell novel, will return to the genre that defined their careers.

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Deadline reports that Warner Bros are producing the project, titled 'Jupiter Ascending', adding to an impressive sci-fi slate that includes the forthcoming 'Akira' and 'The Twilight Zone' remakes.

They also note that, like 'The Matrix' before it, 'Jupiter Ascending' will be an original creation, so the brothers must really be tiring of other people's material.

The cast is said to be under discussion, but while that happens WB are keeping every little detail of the project under lock and key. That means we have no idea of the story, the cast or even a logline to muse on.

But if the brothers have managed to conjure up even some of the scope, imagination and invention that made 'The Matrix' such a huge phenomenon, you can bet details will soon be leaking faster than set photos from 'The Dark Knight Rises'.