AHSOKA's Ivanna Sakhno to Co-Star in M3GAN 2.0
Ahsoka co-star Ivanna Sakhno has found her next big project. She is set to star alongside Allison Williams and Violet McGraw in Atomic Monster and Blumhouse’s M3GAN 2.0.
Akela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN), who wrote the first film, which was a big hit, will once again write the sequel with Gerard Johnstone also returning to direct.
When previously talking about the sequel, producer James Wan teased, "It's early yet, but M3GAN is coming back in a big way. The first film came just at the right time [when concerns about AI were mounting], and we're definitely leaning into that on the next one. We're exploring the AI universe even further."
During a previous interview, Johnstone opened up about the sequel and when asked if he would try to replicate the viral aspects of the first movie, he said: "I think if you do that, you are kind of setting yourself up to fail, and the audience will smell that a mile away.
He continued: “I think for me, what works about the movie and what I think people are responding to is that it's fun and absurd and full of lots of pleasant surprises."
Johnstone went on to say: "And so looking at the sequel, those are my sort of paragons that I'm just trying to follow is like, how can we continue to be fun, absurd, surprising, but at the same time make sure that we continue to be part of the cultural conversation, I guess.”
He added: “In addition to the dance, we're not too heavy-handed about it, but there are themes about co-parenting in the age of A.I. and things like that. So it's important to have some substance to hang all of those dance sequences onto."
There are no details to share on the sequel or any information on who Sakhno will be playing, but It’ll be fun to see what this next chapter of the evil AI story entails.
Source: Deadline