After the smash success of 2022’s M3GAN, it was simple to imagine the inevitable sequel would do the identical. However M3GAN 2.0 has but to catch on like its predecessor, to this point yielding disappointing box-office returns and placing discuss of a trilogy, to not point out a M3GAN cinematic universe past subsequent yr’s sexbot spin-off, SOULM8TE, doubtful. In a brand new interview, Blumhouse boss Jason Blum shared his ideas on the disappointing scenario.
On The City podcast (through the Wrap), Blum ticked off the explanations for M3GAN 2.0‘s diminishing returns, together with releasing the sequel within the extra aggressive summer time season (the unique went extensive in early January, after a December premiere), in addition to the accelerated timeline for its completion.
However he additionally acknowledged there was a elementary misunderstanding concerning the character and the way the viewers perceived her, particularly in a context that leans extra into motion than horror.
“All of us thought M3GAN was like Superman,” he admitted. “We may do something to her. We may change genres. We may put her in the summertime. We may make her look totally different. We may flip her from a foul man into a great man. We form of classically overthought how highly effective folks’s engagement was actually together with her.”
Past Blum’s remarks, M3GAN followers are additionally properly conscious of how her star energy expanded past that first film. The character turned a popular culture phenomenon off display, displaying up in flash mobs at theme parks and in Delight parades; moving into jokey on-line feuds with fellow killer doll Chucky; and even selecting her favourite flicks from the Criterion Closet. Maybe that persona turned greater than the flicks—and in the end labored towards that action-oriented shift in her sequel. She is versatile, however perhaps not in fairly the best way Blumhouse was anticipating.
M3GAN 2.0 underperforming means Blumhouse isn’t having its finest second proper now. However Blum nonetheless sounded optimistic for the longer term: “You possibly can’t erase 15 years of what we’ve finished, of the filmmakers that we’ve labored with, for somewhat stoop.”
Up to now in 2025, apart from M3GAN 2.0 the studio has launched Wolf Man and The Girl within the Yard, each of which garnered blended outcomes, in addition to Drop, which fared a bit higher. Little doubt Blumhouse has excessive hopes driving on its different two sequels nonetheless to come back this yr: Black Cellphone 2 in October, and 5 Nights at Freddys 2—the follow-up to the studio’s most profitable world launch up to now—in December.
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