“M3GAN,” the brand new horror film about a terrifying AI doll, turned immediately iconic the minute viewers noticed her in the film’s first trailer. The film stars Allison Williams as Gemma, a robotics engineer who designs M3GAN to be the proper toy. She presents the primary — and solely prototype — to her niece Cady (Violet McGraw), just for M3GAN to go on a rampage of terror.

Though M3GAN is now not a menace to Gemma and Cady on the finish of the film, the movie does arrange a sequel. In the film, considered one of Gemma’s coworkers steals the schematics for M3GAN and sells them to a different toy firm. Now that the plans for M3GAN are on the market on the earth, any toy firm may make its personal, which suggests “M3GAN” may simply get a sequel.

“M3GAN” producer James Wan (who additionally helped develop the story with screenwriter Akela Cooper) defined {that a} “M3GAN” sequel may simply be the start of an prolonged universe in a Jan. 3 interview with Collider. “What I’ll say to that’s, in any of my films, whether or not it is The Conjuring Universe, or Saw, or Malignant, or M3GAN right here, we like to consider an even bigger world,” he defined. “For me, it is about creating the world, and understanding who the characters are, the place the story may probably go, after which constructing this greater world, after which going into that and going, ‘Okay, I’m telling this specific story, however I do know different stuff that is occurring.’ So if we’re lucky sufficient to have sequels, then we’ve got an thought of the place we need to go.”

Meanwhile, The New York Times reported in November that Universal was already on the brink of green-light a sequel simply primarily based on the response to the trailer. It additionally helps that “M3GAN” had a comparatively small reported funds at $12 million.

So evidently a continuation of “M3GAN” and her universe is probably going. We’ll have to attend and see what kind it takes.