M3GAN 2.0 Dives Deeper Into ‘What Makes It Work’: New Exclusive Details From Jason Blum

Perhaps that’s why, as with most Blumhouse sequels, the director is coming around M3GAN 2.0 with sincere concern. When he stops at Geek’s Den NYCC studio to discuss the film with us, as well as January intriguing Wolf man remake— that’s ahead of the 2025 movies, which include new ones Blumhouse Productions originals and sequels. But over the years, he’s come to realize that sequels work best when they retain the original talent that made the previous films so beloved.

“I think the most important factor in making a successful sequel is to bring back the people who were responsible for the original film,” Bloom explains. “Hollywood doesn’t do this often, but almost all the sequels we’ve done — not all, but almost all — have had the original people come back.”

In case M3GAN 2.0 that means putting Johnston back behind the camera in the director’s chair and making sure screenwriter Akela Cooper once again holds the pen of the script. Additionally, Allison Williams and Violet McGraw return as Gemma and Cady, aunt and niece who are forced to grow closer after Cady’s parents are killed in a car crash during the first film. And of course, there’s M3GAN, which we can only hope will have more viral TikTok-ready moments in the sequel, right?

“I hope so,” Bloom teases. “I would never dare say we’re going to do it again. It is very difficult. And we’re trying to do something completely different with this second movie, because if you repeat the movie too much, people will be disappointed with the sequel… the sequel has to be different enough from the first movie so that people don’t feel cheated, but no also different from the first movie, that people feel cheated, and that’s what we’re trying to overcome M3GAN 2and I think we’re doing that.”

It’s a tricky answer, but Bloom confirms that the themes of the first 21st-century parenting film, which confronts the horrors of new technology, will carry over to 2.0— even if the sequel finally gives us a better understanding of what’s going on inside the M3GAN hardware.

“Second M3GANI would say similar to (the first),” Blum says, “in that it expands on that theme. I don’t think we’re solving any new social problems, but we’re looking deeper into who M3GAN is, what attracts it, and how deadly it really can be.”