On Tuesday, Universal Pictures dropped the first trailer for its horror movie M3GAN, which quickly went viral for featuring Taylor Swift’s 2019 song It’s Nice to Have a Friend as well as the creepy doll’s dance moves. (Read More Here).
Get Out alum Allison Williams executive produced and stars as robotics engineer Gemma, who gains custody of her orphaned niece Katie (Violet McGraw).
The 34-year-old SAG Award nominee’s character attempts to cheer up Katie by introducing her to the prototype for an AI android called ‘Model 3 Generative.’
The poster alone for Universal’s upcoming horror M3gan, from director Gerard Johnstone, was enough to make it seem like the feature might be worthy of a spot in the great killer doll canon. But watching the movie’s trailer, it’s clear that M3gan’s going for a very of-the-moment kind of madness that owes just as much to Tesla’s totally real and almost functional robots as it does the Child’s Play franchise and classics like Small Wonder.
Written by Akela Cooper and co-producer James Wan, M3gan tells the tale of Gemma (Allison Williams), a roboticist whose work and personal life collide when her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) is suddenly orphaned after a car accident. Though Gemma’s not exactly keen on raising a child herself, in Cady, she sees an opportunity to test out M3gan (voiced by Jenna Davis), a sophisticated android she and her fellow engineers built to be the ultimate friend and companion to lonely children.
But when M3GAN lectures Gemma on parenting and she tries to turn her off, M3GAN defiantly glares back at her: ‘I thought we were having a conversation.’
M3GAN also ominously warns a neighborhood bully called Brandon that he ‘should probably run’ after he tussles with Katie.
The preview ends with a montage of the doll choking Gemma, hanging a man, wielding a metal rod then a nail gun, and causing an explosion.
The doll’s impressive dance and other movements were performed by 12-year-old Amie Donald in her big-screen acting debut, and she received movement coaching from The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power actors Jed Brophy and Luke Hawker.
Three-time Grammy winner Megan Thee Stallion ‘screamed’ when she saw the dance in the trailer, tweeting: ‘Not being biased but I think they made this movie for me! I will be the THEE FIRST in line to see M3GAN!’
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