Blumhouse's M3GAN 2.0 Movie Release Date Pushed Back

Not long after Blumhouse’s killer A.I. robot horror film M3GAN became a box office hit with $180 million at the box office, they quickly greenlit a sequel with M3GAN 2.0 and set the release date for January 2025. Well, while they were hoping to that release date, the film has been delayed and it is now set to be released on May 16th, 2025.

Allison Williams and Violet McGraw are set to reprise their roles, with Akela Cooper (Malignant, M3GAN) once again writing the script and James Wan on board to produce.

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 director Gerard 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. 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."

"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. 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."

The first movie was actually very entertaining, and it’ll be fun to see how they continue that story.