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Everyone’s favorite blonde bot returns inthe first trailer for M3GAN 2.0 and she’s gotten a serious upgrade.
The following Q&A has been edited for length and clarity.
But I’m wondering what made you want to explore M3GAN as more of an anti-hero?
She obviously cared about Cady.
Suddenly it didn’t seem so far-fetched.
I mean, the first film was largely about parenting and how we raise our kids.
With AI, it’s the same thing.
It’s whatever you train it to be.
So M3GAN comes back with a point of view that’s worth listening to, I guess.
What can you tease about that mystery?
How central is it to the plot?
So that felt like an opening; ‘What if someone else did get their hands on this?’
I was really taken aback by how much bigger in scale this looks.
Some of the sets in the trailer are crazythat Tron-esque hallway!
How much of that was a conscious effort?
I’m not that cynical.
I figured they’d want something on a bigger canvas, and we tried to deliver.
Every week on set, it felt like we were making a different movie.
It kept us on our toes.
After her first shell was obliterated in the first movie, M3GAN gets a new body in 2.0.
For the large majority of the trailer, though, she looks pretty much as she did before.
Did you ever toy with the idea of changing her aesthetic?
We did think about different hairstyles and things like that.
We’re certainly changing up the outfits [in this film].
But we were conscious that if you mess with it too much, it suddenly becomes Not M3GAN.
Having said that, she has a couple of different… modes in this film.
Was the studio gonna freak out if we’re changing her look?
But they embraced it.
M3GAN, the movie, was such a huge hit back in 2022.
Do you feel a sense of pressure to top it with this one?
There’s always an amount of pressure, but it also felt like an opportunity.
It’s really lovely when that can happen.
It’s genre-fluid, with this film not being a straight thriller anymore.
M3GAN 2.0 hits theaters on June 27, 2025.
