![]() I try to protect my kids from that but it's really hard because all their other friends are on Minecraft or Roblox. Now they're all just in their own little cocoon, and I hate it. It used to be that the kids were all playing Sega or watching a Bruce Lee movie. When I go to my friend's houses, the kids are all on iPads. Well, just this notion of screen time, and iPads and how people take it for granted is the biggest thing that affects me as a parent. Was there something specific about your worldview on tech that you wanted to say in the movie? There's a pointed theme about the perils of children and technology that runs throughout the story. I just kind of took the script and rewrote things that match my sensibility. So it wasn't like me trying to understand someone else's work. I wanted to make M3GAN more fun and make it funny. So I just brought my sensibilities to it. The script that I got was a lot straighter and really, really dark. James was a fan of Housebound as well, and that was what he wanted. Was it odd asking to make changes or were they open to you adding your voice to it too? With this, you were working from Wan and Cooper's script. ![]() Prior to M3GAN, you wrote your own scripts that you directed. We find the whole notion of success, and that we actually get to do what we want to do for a living absurd. So you're putting so many things into it, because you'll never get to make another one. Yeah, I've never discussed it with Taika or Jemaine, but for me, it's kind of a thing of when you're a New Zealander, you can't believe you're getting to make a movie. ![]() What about your home country seems to give you an advantage in that area? Gerard, you are part of this wave of New Zealand filmmakers who have the perfect sensibility of how to blend comedy and horror. ![]() With executive producer James Wan and producer Jason Blum already blue skying ideas for sequels, SYFY WIRE got on a Zoom with director Gerard Johnstone ( Housebound) to ask about his sequel involvement, what he added to Wan and writer Akela Cooper's original script and to unpack the cinematic homages he wove into the final film. The first horror hit of 2023, M3GAN is creepy-dancing her way into our homes with the Digital release and the Blu-ray™ and DVD available now. ![]()
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