LAS VEGAS – What’s better than one dancing M3GAN? How about 30 of them?
More than a two-dozen “dancing robot” M3GANs hit the stage Wednesday at CinemaCon, the convention for theater owners, and grooved to Britney Spears’ “Oops! I Did It Again” to celebrate the return of everyone’s favorite murderous high-tech doll in “M3GAN 2.0” (in theaters June 27).
Producers (and big-time horror guys) Jason Blum and James Wan introduced the first trailer for the sequel, which takes place two years after 2022’s hit first film. After taking M3GAN down, inventor Gemma (Allison Williams) and her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) now keep the M3GAN AI housed in a cutesy plastic Teletubby-like thing for safekeeping, though she sasses them constantly.
Unfortunately, a defense contractor has stolen one of Gemma’s early AI models for M3GAN. Named Amelia (and played by “Ahsoka” star Ivanna Sakhno), this new robot is meant to be a killer spy but it goes rogue and comes after those close to M3GAN, including Gemma and Cady.
Gemma recruits M3GAN to fight Amelia, but our antiheroine wants a body that’s stronger, faster, taller and more lethal than the last. (M3GAN also reiterates her promise to always protect Cady – Gemma, not so much.) The footage concludes with M3GAN and Amelia throwing down, and our girl M3GAN getting the best line: “Hold on to your vaginas.”
Blum and Wan also debuted the first footage from their spinoff, the more grownup “SOULM8TE,” which offers up an adult version of M3GAN. “Nothing could possibly go wrong with that,” Blum quipped.
The erotic horror thriller stars David Rysdahl as a grieving widower who orders a sexbot named Sara (Lily Sullivan) that’s designed to be the perfect partner for adults. They get hot and heavy, but Sara gets very clingy, and when her dude begins to see another woman (Claudia Doumit), things go bad for everyone involved.
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