Rebooted for Revenge: “M3GAN 2.0” Trailer Resurrects the AI Nightmare for a New Battle
She’s baaaaaaaack.
The murderous robotic doll from hell is back in M3GAN 2.0, two years after she burst onto the scene in director Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN and took her assignment to protect and love Cady (Violet McGraw) to its fatal extreme. After going absolutely berserk, the artificially intelligent, terrifyingly flexible (morally and otherwise) robot was destroyed by her creator, Gemma (Allison Williams), Cady’s aunt and caretaker, after creating the robot and asking it to look after Cady after her parents died in a tragic accident. Now, Cady’s 14 and a proper teenager, and she’s agitating against Gemma’s overprotective rules as most teenagers eventually do.
But Cady and Gemma are about to have problems more severe than familial strife—a defense contractor has stolen the underlying technology that gave life to the killer robot to create the perfect weapon—Amelia (Ivanna Sahkno from Ahsoka)—a robot spy. But what the defense contractor is about to learn, as Gemma and Cady learned the hard way themselves, is that the more capable and sentient a robot becomes, the less interested it is in taking orders from a measly old human being. Now, Amelia is out to kill everyone involved in her creation, including Gemma and Cady.
So, how do you stop an artificially intelligent killer robot? By resurrecting another artificially intelligent killer robot, yup, M3GAN, to fight it. All M3GAN asks for is a few upgrades—greater strength, greater quickness, oh, and to make her taller—and she’ll take Amelia down. But is she trustworthy? The quips and the barbs she slings in the trailer leave that up in the air. She certainly hasn’t lost any of her wit, even when she’s initially relegated to a cute, harmless form of rounded plastic.
M3GAN alums Brian Jordan Alvarez and Jen Van Epps, who play Cole and Tess, respectively, join Williams and McGraw in the cast. Aristotle Athari, Timm Sharp, and Jermaine Clement are new to the cast.
Johnstone returns to direct from a script by Akela Cooper, with James Wan, Jason Blum, and Allison Williams producing.
Check out the trailer below. M3GAN 2.0 hits theaters on June 27, 2025.
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