M3gan’s serving Small Wonder with a side of murder in its first trailer

Penned by Akela Cooper and co-producer James Wan, M3gan tells the tale of Gemma (Allison Williams), a roboticist whose get the job done and private life collide when her niece Cady (Violet McGraw) is instantly orphaned immediately after a automobile accident. Nevertheless Gemma’s not precisely eager on boosting a kid herself, in Cady, she sees an possibility to exam out M3gan (voiced by Jenna Davis), a advanced android she and her fellow engineers designed to be the final friend and companion to lonely kids.

Nevertheless M3gan really substantially turns into that for Cady in the new trailer, it isn’t prolonged in advance of the robot’s pleasantries are overridden by her key directive to protect her human charge and she starts off acting extra like one particular of those mechanical canines Boston Dynamics swears it’ll hardly ever weaponize. M3gan’s absolutely acquired the complete creepy doll thing down, and it appears to be like the movie’s sense of humor’s going to contrast well with the sheer amount of money of gore it’ll aspect. But we will not know just how M3gan stacks up versus the likes of correct legends like Annabelle right up until the motion picture hits theaters subsequent yr on January 6th. It was at first scheduled for release on the 13th, but Deadline studies it has been moved up a week.

Update, Oct 19th, 7:30PM ET: Current to note a new release day.