“Now it is in the month of pride, and it is incredible because they are the most supportive community,” says Davis.
When asked if the team behind the film expected M3GAN to become a queer icon, Williams, through laughter, responds quickly: “No.”
“I think if we had been doing it with the expectation that she would be a strange icon, the queer community would have fired it,” says Williams.
“It was like, if you committed to the truth, making her feel like an authentic and real person, making all the characters real, making the world feel real, making the tone feel consistent, then you have a better opportunity to create a character that can be embraced by a community that loves a bold woman who lives in the most true expression of her,” he adds.
M3Gan as a sequel
“M3GAN 2.0” It once again challenges the character that caused the franchise to be a success. The sequel goes an almost complete action movie while highlighting the need for AI regulation.
Two years after Gemma and his niece Cady Neutralize M3Gan, they have been resettle in San Francisco. Then, they learn that a new robot is on the scene. A military contractor obtained the filtered code that promoted M3GAN and built a new robot: Amelia, abbreviation for the logistics of autonomous military commitment and Android infiltration.
The federals put Gemma and their crew in charge of Amelia when she, like M3Gan, begins to become rogue. The only way to end Amelia? Bring M3Gan back.
Ivanna Sakhno, who portrays Amelia, tells today.com about joining the franchise as a new enemy.
“There is definitely a sense of responsibility, because you know how love it is for people, so you just want to do justice,” says Sakhno. “I have full confidence in (the director) Gerard (Johnstone) and his vision, and I have to applaud him for being so open to getting so far and not being pretentious in his madness. He was not afraid of doing something very different from the first and running the risk.”
Davis also expects the public to love the fighting scenes between M3Gan and Amelia, since they begin to see M3GAN as more than a villain.
“I think M3Gan’s curious is, yes, he is a villain, but he can also be seen as a hero. But he is also hilarious, and is shameless, and does not care what you are saying, he only says. I think it is very fun for the public, because they do not know what will happen next to her, and they cannot predict it.”
“I also believe that there is a certain relationship between Amelia and M3Gan, although there is rivalry and fear that also feels, they are made. They are made of the same seed. But M3Gan is that B —-“, says Sakhno with a smile, before adding: “respectfully.”
M3Gan as trilogy, and beyond
While a third installment of “M3Gan” has not yet been Greenlit, Williams, while appearing today on June 24, highlighted the fact that there is a “3” number in the title of the movies.
“We put a three in the first title, which was an enigma, and it means that we must afford,” said Williams. “He has already been there, he is predestined.”
“That said,” he added, “we are dreaming of a third. We have talked about that and we ask ourselves how it would look, and we have had some of those conversations, but we will have to see what happens this weekend.”
“M3Gan 2.0” is projecting $ 10 million in its first weekend, according to Box Office Mojo, but regardless of whether the franchise becomes a trilogy, the M3Gan film universe has already begun, Williams tells today.com.
“You can take a real, deep and important issue that is difficult to speak and put it in this mixed genre, and suddenly people can talk about it in a bigger way,” says Williams. “And then do it with ‘M3Gan’, I realized, you can keep doing this.”
Williams is an executive producer of “Soulm8te”, a spin -off “M3Gan” set in the same universe, which will be released in 2026. The details about the film are minimal, although the spectators know that he follows a man who buys an Android to help cope with the loss of his wife.
“From the moment M3Gan’s doll was an idea, we were like, because people are people, we just know that it is a matter of time before someone is like, what about this, but for sex? ‘”, Says Williams with a smile.
“It’s not just that, obviously, it’s more complicated, and I don’t want to spoil anything or give too many details, but it’s like an adventure with R classification in this world where we can see M3Gan extrapolated technology in a case of use that we do not explore in our franchise,” he continues.
Davis also calls opportunities within the “endless” MCU.
“Especially for how frequent it is AI in our society, and for how amazing it is,” she says. “Even with the first film, portraits of AI predicted, and then they came out: what are they predicting in this movie that will come true?”
Williams expects this franchise, which began as a question sign and then became a phenomenon, can generate relevant conversations about the world in which we live or point of being.
She points out the themes of the sequel, the regulation of AI (“not the sexiest”) and paternity, as an example.
“We are very firm about the fact that people need to think about these things and talk about them more openly. And we hope that, as a result of this film and all other films in the film universe, people will have those conversations on the road to the car,” says Williams.
“You can talk about the things that are fun, yes, whatever. But as later at dinner, when laughter dies, it’s like, ‘but what are we doing? What is our plan here? What are we going to do with these really intelligent lines of code that we have written?'”
