“you’re free to’t even dream that big when you’re doing something like this.
That was just such an exciting day.
It was proof of concept.”
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So we take that to the nth degree withM3GAN."
“At one of these sessions, we came up with the idea of doing a killer-doll movie.”
‘M3GAN’.Geoffrey Short/Universal Pictures
“We thought it would be fun to do a movie that is basically Annabelle meets the Terminator.”
“So even before we read the script, we were excited about it.
It checked every box for us.”
New Zealand director Johnstone was known to Wan and Blum for his twisty 2014 horror filmHousebound.
“I’m a big fan of Gerard, I loveHousebound,” says Wan.
“M3GANneeded someone who could take Akela’s terrific script and execute it in a way that actually works.
Because it’s not an easy movie to make work.”
“Then throw James Wan in for good measure and it was just irresistible.”
Johnstone shotM3GANin New Zealand last year.
“But it was very complicated, I can tell you that much.”
“It was one of those crazy, sleep-deprived, 3 a.m. thoughts,” he says.
It was just something that everyone embraced and loved."
M3GANarrives in theaters Jan. 6.
Watch the film’s latest trailer below.
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