We're now getting toward the end of 2023, but not fading from memory any time soon is the film that proved to be the first big hit of the year. Arriving in theaters domestically on a massive wave of social media-generated buzz, M3GAN was a massive box office hit, making $181 million before the end of its big screen run around the world. To the surprise of nobody, a sequel was given the greenlight shortly after the movie's release, and producer James Wan is teasing that M3GAN 2.0 will deliver a story that is timely and further tapped into what has become a major subject of debate: artificial intelligence.
Wan is currently preparing audiences for the release of his latest directorial effort, Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, but he recently provided Empire Magazine (via Comic Book) with an update on the developing M3GAN sequel. The movie is more than a year from its scheduled release date, with Universal Pictures having put it on the calendar for early 2025, but he noted that the project is putting a specific focus on societal concerns about A.I. Said the filmmaker,
