Matrix Directors Plan Gay Love Story

The quirky Wachowski siblings, whose Matrix trilogy earned bajillions, are planning to film a love story between a gay American soldier and an Iraqi man.

Production Weekly took to Twitter to report that casting on the film has begun. There's not a wealth of information out there about CN9 -- in fact, all we really know for sure at this point is that it's going to be a "hard-R war picture about a homosexual American soldier who falls in love with an Iraqi." But, before you assume it's just Brokeback Mountain set in the Middle East, consider that CN9 could stand for the ninth cranial nerve (it does in medical terminology), which is the nerve responsible for receiving information from the tongue, middle ear, and tonsils according to website Playlist. When you do that, the site suggests that it doesn't seem like a stretch to picture the filmmaking duo once again venturing into the world of strange alternate realities and sci-fi.

The movie will be set in the "near future" and work backwards through the war, according to the above-linked story.