At the first of his new film M3GAN 2.0, There is a brief moment when it is difficult to say if the director Gerard Johnstone refers to human adolescents or literal monsters when he explains what is the most scared to raise children. “It’s like this creature that continues to mutant and evolve, and once you think you have mastered how to face it, it turns into something else,” he said The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday evening on the black and pink carpet of the film in New York.
The similarities between the terrors of real reality of adolescents and trying to control a robot feels Killer IA – “on steroids”, no less, said executive producer Jason Blum – is at the heart of the continuation of horror success in 2023 M3gan. “It is completely unpredictable,” said EP Adam Hendricks about what fans can expect a 2.0 M3gan version. “M3gan, for the best or for the worst, is Gemma’s child and what it will be, this film decides. But for the most part of the film, Gemma has no idea and is terrified by what M3gan could do.”
“Teen M3gan is obviously frightening because it can blend more easily in society. She also grew up, so to speak, and she comes with a lot of Sassassine and a lot of teenage luggage,” added executive producer James Wan. “And as we all know, adolescents can be quite frightening, so to put it in a potentially killer of AI, you wear it to a different level.”
Struck in theaters on June 27, the continuation resumed a few years after the fatal events of the original film. The creator of M3gan Gemma (Allison Williams) and his Cady niece (MCGRAW Violet) are forced to bring AI back to the world when confronted with a more recent, deadller and more human -air robot built and armed by the army.
“We have already seen that she is bigger. She has more skills. She is more powerful. She has more attitude. I have some control over her, but now she has more ego,” said Williams about the return. “It is just as difficult for Gemma to raise a teenage robot as to raise a adolescent human. The film is as much on parenting as on AI regulations, and asks us to contemplate all these problems as a culture, but it is excited in an extremely fun walk.”
Part of the way in which the suite illustrates the growth of M3gan is to give it more autonomy on her style and wardrobe, with costume designer Jeriana San Juan explaining that she took the pieces that really resonated from the original M3gan look, the distilled and “remixed” for 2.0: “It represents in a way a retro future, I think that people want, and because M3gan has evolved mentally and spiritually in all of this, we gave it a little more an sassy and mature look.”
According to the actress of M3gan Voice Jenna Davis, the public can also expect the robot to sound a little different too. “We played a lot with tones and we matured it a little, but not to the point where we lost what everyone loved in her. I wanted to make sure we keep what people loved – her campsite, her sass, her pleasure, all they loved about the first,” said the actress THR On the carpet.
With the recalibration of her body, her style and her voice, the public should expect a difference in “the way she dances, the way she sings”, teased Hendricks. Addition of Johnstone, “as emblematic as this first dance is, you don’t want to see the same thing twice. So we do something a little more special here. Allow me to refer: she is a robot. She will do a new dance. Maybe she wants to give a little of this robot juice.”
While viewers should expect some notable changes, EP Judson Scott noted that puberty – or to be downloaded in a more recent and better – will not completely change M3gan. “It is the same M3gan that you like, just larger, stronger, faster,” he said. “We have a lot of this tone that she brought to the first film in the second, but surrounding her just with a little different story, putting her in different situations.”
This different story will see M3gan compete with a new IA robot, Amelia, which serves as a principal antagonist of the suite.
“We needed a villain who would really make M3gan look good. It is a story about families, and you realize that when M3gan enters a nourishing family who thinks about it and she wants to redeem himself,” said Johnstone in the way the film addresses the two robots differently. “While Amelia, she is formed by the military, it is her parents. She does not have a code like M3gan. She is really like a black mirror for M3gan and that extends through everything they look at the way they fight.”
“There are a lot of combat sequences. It’s like most of the things I do, it’s just fighting, fighting, fighting, and also in different costumes,” noted Ivanna Sakhno, who depicts Amelia in the film. “You have dresses, you have a complete costume, ordinary human clothes. There are so many things. It’s Campy and also it is fun and it’s bananas, but at the same time, the combat sequences are legitimate.”
Unlike M3gan in the first film, Amelia is even more human, in a manner that progresses the factor of Flét. “Amelia is indistinguishable from humans to sight, but once she starts to speak and behave, you can say that something is a little with her. He captures the same strange efflux of the first film and applies it a little more,” said Scott.
And with Amelia taking charge of the part of the bad guy, M3gan can occupy a different role in the film, what Scott said “looked like the next natural step. I think it’s really the whole central point of the film now. We were afraid of M3gan before, she was trying to kill ourselves and now we have to bring her back to save ourselves,” Scott continued. “One of the funny ideas with this second film that we discovered is that the concept of M3gan, M3gan, is the idea. The less the genre of the film in which it was, the more the character. We would therefore be able to take this character, this idea and place it in a different genre, makes it fresh.”
“It would have been very easy for us to repeat ourselves. We could have easily done M3GAN 1.5. But we just feel like films, we have to make bigger swings, “said Hendricks.” So, even in the idea of making a sequel, we wanted to make an original film – bringing this character in a completely new genre, but at the same time that we ensure that there were foundations. “”
For Blum, the decision to make a follow -up – even in an environment of industry where the threat of supersaturation is still looming – had a meaning because of the M3gan width after the first film. “We all involved, we had the impression that people were ready for more of her. It doesn’t always look like that,” he said THR. “The film continued to do a lot of business after opening, which is always a sign that he had a very good word of mouth. She imbued culture and that was a reason for us to try to make another film.”
As for the future of M3gan Franchise, Williams said she was absolutely on board for more. “I want to see M3gan do everything she can do. I’m here for the ride,” said the star and producer. “It was an incredible pleasure and passion to be a producer on this film. I was on the first, and it was as if I had doubled my soul’s investment in the second. These films are like artistic projects in a large group that are filled with all our passion, and I feel so lucky to be involved.”
