M3GAN’s Soulm8te Spinoff Has Found Its Android Star

What’s worse than M3GAN, the homicidal artifact robot who defends kids with a murderous wrath? How astir an android that loves you to death? (And no, this isn’t the Megan Fox movie Subservience you astir apt heard astir past week.)

Blumhouse announced its plans for a spinoff movie dubbed Soulm8te back successful June, and Deadline reports the movie present has its pb histrion successful Lily Sullivan. Best known for Evil Dead Rise and Monolith, the Australian prima volition play the presently unnamed android bought by a widower pursuing the decease of his wife. As antheral and instrumentality get closer, things statesman to spell existent southbound existent accelerated for the antheral and everyone other involved. At clip of writing, Sullivan is the lone relation that’s been locked down, and a accumulation day for the movie hasn’t been set.

Directed by You Are Not My Mother’s Kate Dolan, Soulm8te’s been antecedently described arsenic being successful the vein of home thrillers from backmost successful the ’90s. The original M3GAN movie had thoughts connected its caput astir toys and technology, truthful it’ll beryllium absorbing to spot however this movie tackles the ways tech has changed however relationships relation nowadays. Per BloodyDisgusting, Dolan precocious called it “an exploration of relationships and loneliness. Despite technological advances, determination are enduring quality truths we cannot escape, and I americium looking guardant to delving into those depths.”

In the contiguous future, this M3GAN Cinematic Universe volition proceed with M3GAN 2.0, due retired successful June 2025. Production started backmost successful July, and we’ll nary uncertainty get immoderate teases of what that mechanical demon’s up to soon enough. Knowing however Blumhouse operates, Soulm8te is conscionable the beginning: there’s surely different technological terrors that are waiting to beryllium unearthed for this franchise successful the years to come.

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