M3GAN_Android
Guys,
I know I said that I will be gone until January 25, 2025, but... I just can't
I realised that without writing here and talking to all of you I'm not feeling as good as I want to
The premiere of "M3GAN 2.0" is getting closer, the more last times I watched an interview with Violet McGraw and her elder sister, Madeleine McGraw. In this interview the McGraw sisters officially confirmed that the filming of "M3GAN 2.0" will start soon
The production of the sequel is such an interesting and a little bit funny thing, cause the release date and name of the movie was annouced actually before the first movie even came out. I mean, they had A GODDAMN TWELVE MONTHS to think about everything and you're telling me that it is STILL NOT EXACTLY KNOWN if Gerard Johnstone (director of the first movie) is going to return to direct or not and you're telling me that they want to make it for about 8 months? I'm sorry, but I'm just not seeing it. That is impossible to happen due to the less time they have. And I guess that the filming will not start this month only the next one. I'm almost completely sure that either they will make us wait for the movie longer than to January 17th or the sequel UNFORTUNATELY will be worse than the first movie
What do you think about this all? I'm sorry for changing my mind if you're thinking that I'm not keeping my promises or something, but I just missed my fanfics about M3GAN, I missed Wattpad, I missed you, guys... I missed it everything :)
spqrz0
@M3GAN_Android incidentally I wonder how many of the old films referenced in M3GAN you've seen :) there was an obvious reference to "ET" when M3GAN was hiding among the toys (ET did that too), there was a "Forbidden Planet" reference (Cady picked up the Forbidden Planet robot from Gemma's collection when Gemma said "those aren't toys", that's why I used it in my fanfic's Kurt scene), and there were a couple of references to "Silent Running" (there was a Silent Running poster on the wall of the Funki office, and the last surviving robot in that film was called Dewey, same as Celia's dog .. I hope M3GAN's killing Dewey wasn't supposed to be some code for shooting down Silent Running). There's also an obvious reference to the 1968 Space Odyssey film (M3GAN's lines to Cady at the end are sort-of taken from HAL 9000's lines to David Bowman). Maybe they put all this in for the parents and grandparents to watch with their teenagers :)
spqrz0
@M3GAN_Android I don't know what company secrets are going on in the studio, but my guess is the reason why they didn't start earlier is because of some of the people involved just not being ready to start yet because of other stuff they're doing. Filmmaking is a really intense job, often with early starts and late finishes every day for weeks, it takes a long time to set up each shot and they have to do many takes of it from different angles to pick the best one, you're away from your family for the whole project, and working on more than one film at a time is extremely difficult. So to make it happen you have to completely book everyone involved at the same time, and also negotiate a decent pay contract for all that extra effort you want from them. And if one person can't do it, you have a choice between (A) replacing them with someone else or (B) holding things up till they can do it, and if it's someone really important to the nature of the film then you have to take option B. And they might not want to make the full details public just yet, so we're just hanging on here not knowing what's going to happen. And M3GAN 1 was quite special because it was produced during the pandemic: the M3GAN dolls (several dolls with different movements were used in filming the close-ups) were mostly built working from home and they had extra time to get it just right, plus that's how they ended up in New Zealand and found Amy. It's going to be a hard act to follow, that's for sure. But they might be able to pull something off. Hopefully they kept all those dolls and can use them again. I'm hoping it will be set at a time when Cady and Gemma have taught M3GAN to be completely good and the villain is someone else, because M3GAN has such potential as a "good" character, but see what they come up with I guess. They're still wanting Alex Kauffmann to be the AI consultant, so I'm expecting some technically interesting lines to be squeezed in :)
