Saw director James Wan will team up with Blumhouse Productions for the forthcoming horror movie “M3GAN”, set for a January 2023 release. Universal Pictures announced that M3GAN, which stars Allison Williams (Get Out, Girls), will release on January 13and will be helmed by Housebound writer-director Gerard Johnstone, from a screenplay by Akela Cooper, who teamed up with Wan on the 2021 horror movie Malignant. M3GAN‘s screenplay is also based on a story by Wan. Jason Blum will produce under his Blumhouse Productions.
M3GAN tells the story of a brilliant roboticist at a toy company, who uses AI to create a life-like kids doll that begins to take on a life of her own when she enlists the help of the prototype to help her care for her nephew. The movie will also star Ronny Chieng.