Techno horror-thriller M3GAN has seen raucous reviews for its odd premise, twisted comedy and satirising of overreliance on artificial intelligence in the home. Sounds like it's done and dusted, no? On that point, writer Akela Cooper has actually already scoped out a much gorier and unrelenting cut of the movie.
It was when three of us were playing Resident Evil Village that I discovered something strange about myself. Steady on now, not like that. Two of my team had surged ahead of me in the story, and promised that there would be a spine-chilling scare in store for me very soon. I continued on, as prepared as I could be, tensed for whatever Capcom chucked round the corner. "Did you do the house with all of the dolls?" they asked me. "Yes... was that meant to be... it?" I replied. It was, and my fearlessness in the face of things that you can easily put in the bin means you'll definitely want me on your side in a situation like M3GAN.
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M3GAN sees roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams) create the titular antagonist, a lifelike doll programmed to be a child's companion. She gives the prototype doll to her niece Cady (Violet McGraw), who has been orphaned after a tragic accident, but things soon spiral out of control. Transforming into a self-aware and extremely murderous mirror of its intended purpose, M3GAN (played by Amie Donald and voiced by Jenna Davis) now will defend Gemma and Cady at any cost. And perform viral TikTok dances. Can't forget that.
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The movie is rated PG-13 in order that as many young people are able to see it as possible. But, Cooper said that there could be a super-duper blood-soaked version in the works, if she gets the green light from Universal Pictures. “There should be an unrated version at some point... I heard it is on the books. But yes, it was way gorier,” she said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “Her body count in the script was higher than in the movie. It wasn’t a Gabriel [in Malignant]-scale massacre, but she did kill a bunch more people.” James Wan, the director, agreed with this interpretation of the concept of a killer robot girl pretending to be friendly but he did have some sensibilities. “[There were a] couple of characters whom James was like, 'I like what you did with those people, but I want them to live.' I was merciless, but again, that is me. My humor is extremely dark.”
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