We spoke with director mattsontomlin abotu using his own personal pain to make motherandroid, how it’s a love letter to his parents, his experiences working with Matt Reeves on ‘The Batman,’ and working on the ‘Terminator’ animated series at Netflix.
From writer/director Mattson Tomlin and producer Matt Reeves, the sci-fi thriller Mother/Android is set in the near future and follows Georgia and her boyfriend Sam , as they try to survive in a world at war with artificial intelligence. Being able to escape would give them the opportunity for a better life for their soon to be born first child, but a dangerous journey and murderous androids standing in their way make everything seem impossible.
That was the beginning. I realized that I had this personal story that was a love letter to my biological parents, but I didn’t wanna just do that straight. I wanted to do it with some kind of genre component. I was born in the aftermath of the Romanian revolution, and I thought I would change that to the robot revolution. That was getting to something special. I could feel electricity in my fingertips, so I started writing. That was it.
Once you started having those pieces fall into place and you figured out what the story was, did you know what the ending for the story would be? Did you always know what your end point would be? How did you go from trying to figure out how to have this career as a filmmaker to working on a script for The Batman? That’s one of the most iconic famous characters there is, so how did that come about?