M3GAN 2.0 Still Reveals M3GAN's New Look As Director Teases Franchise's Evolution Ahead Of "Erotic" Spin-Off

M3GAN 2.0 Still Reveals M3GAN's New Look As Director Teases Franchise's Evolution Ahead Of "Erotic" Spin-Off

The "M3GAN Cinematic Universe" is taking shape at Blumhouse as we're getting both M3GAN 2.0 and erotic-thriller SOULM8TE. Today, we have a first look at the former and fresh details about the latter...

By JoshWilding - Dec 16, 2024 05:12 PM EST
Filed Under: Horror
Source: EW (via Fear HQ)

M3GAN was a bigger hit than expected in 2022 and Blumhouse is acting quickly to capitalise on the movie's box office success. Along with a sequel about the killer doll titled M3GAN 2.0, an erotic-thriller spin-off, SOULM8TE, is also in the works. 

So, you could call it an all-new MCU (M3GAN Cinematic Universe). "I am terrified to imagine what that would mean. What is the Thanos equivalent?" star Allison Williams tells Entertainment Weekly (via FearHQ.com). "Let's just keep going as long as they're interesting and each one has its own story to tell."

While plot details are being kept a secret ahead of the sequel's release in theaters next year, director Gerard Johnstone teases, "I had actually a different idea for the ending of M3GAN, which would've been interesting but probably not as satisfying. The good thing about doing a sequel is I got the chance to expand on that idea into a longer narrative."

"The idea James [Wan] had fit really well with that," he adds. "So, it was just a really good marriage of those two things...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."

"In a way, M3GAN is a personification of all of those fears. [M3GAN 2.0] is very ambitious. I felt that the story should be bigger and increase in scale and scope, but it's still a minuscule budget [compared to] the Marvel movie scale," the filmmaker notes. 

The site's report goes on to explain that Williams serves as an executive producer on SOULM8TE; Kate Dolan (You Are Not My Mother) directs from a script by Rafael Jordan (Salvage Marines), based on a story by Wan and Ingrid Bisu (Malignant).

Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise), David Rysdahl (No Exit), and Claudia Doumit (The Boys), meanwhile, lead the cast of a movie it's said is "about a man who acquires an android to help him cope with the loss of his wife, only for this robot to pull a Fatal Attraction."

We'll hopefully have more on that soon. For now, you can take a closer look at M3GAN's new look in the X post below. 

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to. 

When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw, The Haunting of Hill House), Gemma’s unsure and unprepared to be a parent. Under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair her M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems—a decision that will have unimaginable consequences. 

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rychlec
rychlec - 12/16/2024, 5:49 PM
Soulma8 already came out on Netflix... it was called 'Subservience'. That's ok... I could watch a bunch of this genre.
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 12/16/2024, 6:22 PM
@rychlec -

Should have read your comment before I posted mine lol
Kadara
Kadara - 12/16/2024, 5:53 PM
That's one strange idea for a shared universe lol!
McMurdo
McMurdo - 12/16/2024, 5:55 PM
Soulm8te starring @malatrova15
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 12/16/2024, 8:08 PM
@McMurdo - im not starring in anything if Pablo Lyle and Jonathan Majors are absent...thats why im not into movies for real.
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 12/16/2024, 6:21 PM
Didn’t they already do the erotic angle with Subservient, the Megan Fox movie ?
It’s on Netflix and now that it’s got a wider audience I hope the Megan spinoff has fresh ideas.

Subservient felt like Megan for adults lol
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 12/16/2024, 7:11 PM
“Erotic spin-off”?
That’s James Gunn talk right there.
JayLemle
JayLemle - 12/16/2024, 7:15 PM
M3GAN was a fun watch at the theater. I have the AMC Stubs membership, and that was the first movie I had seen in awhile, that had a nearly-packed theater. It was mostly pre-teens and teens, but it was still a good time. The crowds can make a cinematic experience even better.
Floke
Floke - 12/17/2024, 12:16 AM
And then SOULM8TE can have a spin-off called M4STURB8, about a guy getting an ai-controlled prostethic arm.
dragon316
dragon316 - 12/17/2024, 3:47 AM
@Floke - ?si=loh4-YH1VHFBM2oP
Floke
Floke - 12/17/2024, 3:54 AM
@dragon316 - A classic. :)
dragon316
dragon316 - 12/17/2024, 3:48 AM
He is right about ai and computers taking over people lives
dragon316
dragon316 - 12/17/2024, 3:53 AM
@dragon316 - I don’t care how bad first one was how bad sequel was I support it like first one but anyone else will have gone cgi Megan if they had choose he chose little girl play Megan and use puppeteer work makeup don’t see that in movies any more it’s very rare as long sequel have more practical effects less cgi I will see it in theaters bad or good it may be support more movies like this one.,

Sucks about werewolves movie I want to see that release in December with stupid people driving worse this time of year want to support it but dealing drivers this time of year conflicted want see it

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