'M3GAN 2.0' exclusive first look gives the viral dancing killer robot a makeover. Allison Williams and director Gerard Johnstone tee up the 'very ambitious' sequel and the 'SOULM8TE' spinoff.
Nick is an entertainment journalist based in New York, NY. If you like pugs and the occasional blurry photo of an action figure, follow him on Twitter @NickARomano.and director Gerard Johnstone normally don’t have to think about such questions, except now they have stumbled into their own cinematic universe based around the viral killer robot who slays in more ways than one. Over two years after the 2022 movie fromIt's the new MCU, a.k.a. M3GAN Cinematic Universe.
Williams knew they had something on their hands when the first trailer came out. M3GAN — rendered on screen through a combination of robotics, visual effects, the physical performance of Amie Donald, and the voice performance of Jenna Davis — attacks a guy with the blade from a paper trimmer in that early teaser, but she first does a little dance routine that became so popular online that even the boss of Blumhouse,, dressed up as M3GAN for both Halloween and the film’s premiere.
More specifically, the character of M3GAN blew up as a pop culture icon within the queer community, due largely to the overt campiness infused into the horror., dressed as the A.I. doll, to “work it out, mother!” while Williams makes a cameo. “Every single moment where the culture was embracingjust helped reinforce that this oddly toned horror movie with a lot of humor and self-awareness from this Kiwi director was on the right track," Williams comments.
They honed in on Gemma as a reluctant parent, the Frankenstein’s monster element, and the real-world parallels around A.I. “It was really important that the sequel is a response to what people really loved about the first movie, but also this evolving conversation and fear that we're having about how A.I. is changing us and changing our children and changing society,” Johnstone says. “In a way, M3GAN is a personification of all of those fears.
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