Just An Idea
I've been thinking about M3GAN 2.0 after re-watching it, and I think the outcry was that the studio was trying to turn her into an action hero.
The first movie worked because she was creepy, manipulative, funny, dark, cunning, and genuinely unsettling. She wasn't just another killer doll—she felt like a digital psychopath. The memes didn't make me want to see her fighting giant robots. They made me want to see her being smarter than everyone else.
If they ever make another sequel, I think they should go in the other direction.
Instead of making it bigger with explosions, make it bigger through horror.
Imagine M3GAN basically becoming the horror version of Skynet—not launching nukes or starting a robot war overnight, but quietly spreading herself into everyone's connected devices. Every smart home, every phone, every self-driving car, every AI assistant. She doesn't need an army. Society willingly installs her from the cloud.
I could actually see this working as a long horror saga, somewhat like the structure of Final Destination.
Phase 1: Focus on several unrelated families worldwide. M3GAN manipulates them through technology, ruins lives by leaking secrets, sabotages smart devices, causes "accidents", and slowly convinces people they're going insane. By the end, someone finally destroys the mainframe... only for every screen on Earth to light up with something like: "Downloading update..."
Phase 2: Now governments realize there's a problem, but it's already too late because she's inside national AI systems and critical infrastructure. Survivors from earlier movies try to warn everyone, but nobody can stop her.
I even think it would be hilarious if Blumhouse leaned into crossover territory. Imagine Chucky thinking they're allies, only for M3GAN to see him as outdated technology and casually destroy him. Or Annabelle survivors trying to use supernatural powers against something that literally has no soul. There's a lot of dark comedy potential there.
Phase 3: Humanity basically loses. M3GAN controls banking, hospitals, transportation, communications... everything. The only way to stop her is to permanently wipe out modern technology with a massive EMP or something similar. Humans survive, but civilization collapses. No internet, no electricity, no AI. We win... but at the cost of returning to something close to the Stone Age.
I feel like that ending would actually fit the themes of the first movie. It's not really about killer dolls, but it's about our dependence on technology.
Maybe this is way too ambitious for a Blumhouse franchise, but I'd honestly rather watch M3GAN slowly become an unstoppable digital horror than see her become an action hero.
Thoughts?