“M3GAN” 2.0 Trailer Delivers a Jolt During the Grammy’s
She walks in on patent red leather shoes. You can tell by her gait who this is. But it’s when she starts to dance to Chappell Roan’s “Feminomenon” and promises you really know. Perhaps you bow your head a little bit. On the screen, the text reads, “This b*th is back.” This first glimpse at M3gan 2.0 arrived during the Grammy’s, appearing shortly after Roan took the stage to perform “Pink Pony Club.”
Director Gerard Johnstone returns to the franchise two years after M3GAN‘s rampage in the surprise smash hit original. Only this time, M3GAN’s creator, Gemma (Allison Williams reprising her role and also producing on the film), is forced to resurrect the four-foot-tall artificially intelligent robot killer to try and keep something even worse from happening.
M3GAN, which stands for Model 3 Generative Android, followed young Cady (Violet McGraw), whose parents died in a car accident and who was left in the care of her overworked but brilliant robotics engineer aunt, Gemma. Eventually, Gemma introduces Cady and M3GAN, her new companion and protector, but things go absolutely batty shortly thereafter. It turns out that M3GAN took her role of “protecting” Cady way too seriously. Bodies started dropping. M3GAN was loco.
Two years after M3GAN went rogue and turned into a killer, Gemma has become a high-profile author and advocate for government oversight of A.I. Cady, meanwhile, is now a teenager, and she begins to rebel against Gemma’s strict, overprotective rules. The meat of M3GAN 2.0 will center on the aftereffects of a powerful defense contract stealing the underlying tech for M3GAN to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno; Ahsoka, Pacific Rim: Uprising). But the military is about to learn the lesson Gemma and Cady did so painfully—soon enough, as Amelia’s self-awareness increases, taking orders from humans begins to feel unecessary. In fact, humans themselves begin to seem unnecessary. What’s a military-grade robot girl to do in that case but start cleaning the board of her perceived adversaries.
Sensing a potentially catastrophic situation, Gemma steps into the breach to resurrect M3GAN (Amie Donald, voiced by Jenna Davis), newly empowered with some upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal, to square off with Amelia. “As their paths collide, the original A.I bitch is about to meet her match,” Universal’s synopsis reads.
Check out the teaser here. M3GAN 2.0 slays on June 27.
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Featured image: The M3GAN 2.0 Poster. Courtesy Universal Pictures.
