{"id":863868,"date":"2025-07-20T22:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/its-the-m3gan-universe-and-were-all-about-to-be-living-in-it\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:13:12","slug":"its-the-m3gan-universe-and-were-all-about-to-be-living-in-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/its-the-m3gan-universe-and-were-all-about-to-be-living-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the \u2018M3GAN\u2019 universe \u2013 and we\u2019re all about to be living in it"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cNow she\u2019s at Pride Month, and it is so awesome because they\u2019re the most supportive community ever,\u201d Davis says.<\/p>\n

When asked if the team behind the film was expecting M3GAN to become a queer icon, Williams, through laughter, quickly replies: \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we had been making her with the expectation that she would be a queer icon, she would have been dismissed by the queer community,\u201d Williams says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like, if you just commit to the truth of it, making her feel like an authentic, real person, making all the characters real, making the world feel real, making the tone feel consistent, then you stand a better chance of creating a character that can be embraced by a community that loves a bold woman living in the truest expression of herself,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n

M3GAN as a sequel<\/h2>\n

\u201cM3GAN 2.0\u201d defies expectations once again by totally reinventing the character that made the franchise a hit. The sequel goes almost full action movie while highlighting the need for AI regulation.<\/p>\n

Two years after Gemma and her niece Cady neutralize M3GAN, they\u2019ve resettled in San Francisco. Then, they learn a new robot is on the scene. A military contractor got hold of the leaked code that powered M3GAN and built a new robot: AMELIA, short for Autonomous Military Engagement Logistics and Infiltration Android.<\/p>\n

The feds put Gemma and her crew in charge of AMELIA when she, just like M3GAN, begins to go rogue. The only way to end AMELIA? Bring back M3GAN.<\/p>\n

Ivanna Sakhno, who portrays AMELIA, tells TODAY.com about joining the franchise as a new enemy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a sense of responsibility, because you know how beloved it is by people, so you want to just do it justice,\u201d Sakhno says. \u201cI do have full trust in (director) Gerard (Johnstone) and his vision, and I have to applaud him for being so open to go so far with it and being unpretentious in its craziness. He wasn\u2019t afraid to do something quite different from the first one and take a risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis also hopes audiences love the fighting scenes between M3GAN and AMELIA, as they start to see M3GAN as something other than just a villain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the funny thing about M3GAN is, yes, she\u2019s a villain, but she can also be seen as a hero. But she\u2019s also hilarious, and she\u2019s sassy, and she doesn\u2019t care what you\u2019re saying, she just says it. I think it\u2019s really fun for audiences, because they don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen next for her, and they can\u2019t predict it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI also think there\u2019s some kinship between AMELIA and M3GAN \u2014 although there\u2019s rivalry and fear that is also felt, they see each other. They\u2019re made of the same seed. But M3GAN is that b—-,\u201d Sakhno says with a smile, before adding, \u201cRespectfully.\u201d<\/p>\n

M3GAN as a trilogy \u2014 and beyond<\/h2>\n

While a third installment of \u201cM3GAN\u201d hasn\u2019t yet been greenlit, Williams, while appearing on TODAY<\/a> on June 24, highlighted the fact there is a number \u201c3\u201d in the title of the films.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put a three in the first title, which was a conundrum, and it sort of means we have to be allowed to,\u201d Williams said. \u201cIt\u2019s already been there, it\u2019s predestined.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat said,\u201d she added, \u201cwe are dreaming of a third. We have talked about it and wondered what it would look like, and we\u2019ve had some of those conversations, but we\u2019ll need to see what happens this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cM3GAN 2.0\u201d is projecting $10 million in its opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo<\/a>, but regardless of whether the franchise becomes a trilogy, the M3GAN Cinematic Universe has already begun, Williams tells TODAY.com.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can take a real, deep, important theme that\u2019s hard to talk about and put it into this mixy genre, and then suddenly people are able to talk about it in a bigger way,\u201d Williams says. \u201cAnd then doing it with \u2018M3GAN,\u2019 I realized, you can keep doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams is an executive producer on \u201cSOULM8TE,\u201d a \u201cM3GAN\u201d spinoff set in the same universe, premiering in 2026. The details on the film are minimal, though viewers do know that it follows a man who buys an android to help cope with the loss of his wife.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the moment the M3GAN doll was an idea, we were kind of like, because people are people, we just know it\u2019s a matter of time before someone is like, \u2018What about this, but for sex?\u2019\u201d Williams says with a smile.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just that, obviously, it\u2019s more complicated, and I don\u2019t want to spoil anything or give too many details, but it\u2019s sort of like an R-rated adventure into this world where we get to see M3GAN technology extrapolated into a use case that we do not explore in our franchise,\u201d she continues.<\/p>\n

Davis also calls the opportunities within the MCU \u201cendless.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davis calls the opportunities within the M3GAN Cinematic Universe \u201cendless.\u201d<\/span>Leanna \u0160iupinys for TODAY<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cEspecially because of how prevalent AI is in our society, and because of how uncanny it is,\u201d she says. \u201cEven with the first film, they predicted AI portraits, and then they came out \u2014 what are they predicting in this film that\u2019s going to come true?\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams hopes that this franchise, which started as a question mark and then became a phenomenon, can spark relevant conversations about the world we\u2019re living in, or about to be.<\/p>\n

She points to the themes of the sequel \u2014 AI regulation (\u201cnot the sexiest\u201d) and parenthood \u2014 as an example.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel very strongly about the fact that people need to think about these things and to talk about them more openly. And we\u2019re just hopeful that, as a result of this movie and all the other movies in the cinematic universe, people will have those conversations on the way to the car,\u201d Williams says.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can talk about the things that are funny, yeah, whatever. But like later at dinner, when the giggling dies down, it\u2019s like, \u2018But really, what are we doing? What is our plan here? What are we going to do about these really intelligent lines of code that we\u2019ve written?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Anna Kaplan, TODAY
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