When Malignant hit cinemas last year, those who caught it on the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous screen were treated to a gonzo, no-holds-barred horror riot with some of the wildest imagery and most unexpected twists of recent years. Now, the duo behind that film – James Wan and Akela Cooper – are back with an upgrade: acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ready in/with regard to’concerning’regarding  M3GAN. Scripted by Cooper from a story she devised alongside Wan (and brought to the screen by director Gerard Johnstone), it tells the tale of a seemingly sweet AI robot (Model 3 Generative Android) who goes off the rails with killer consequences – and going by the trailer, it’s going to be another wild ride of creatively campy craziness.###Need more evidence? Just hear how Wan describes the title character. “It’s Annabelle meets The Terminator,” he laughs. Because while M3GAN is detoken ed to bring sweet companionship to lonely kids, like Violet McGraw’s orphaned Cady, her rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent nature doesn’t last. “That soon goes off the rails,” Wan confirms. “I’m fascinated by things that are meant to be innocent, but become more… malign.” Makes sense, from a filmmaker who’s previously given us possessed dolls, killer ventriloquist dummies, and wimple-wearing nuns to make you whimper in terror.###For Cooper, M3GAN was with regards to’concerning’with respect to tapping into her enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest childhood fear. “My thing was ventriloquist dummies,” she laughs. “I saw the Anthony Hopkins movie Magic at a really young age and that cemented the creepiness in my brain. I was a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous  Child’s Play fan, too. It was always my dream to create an iconic monster of my own.” And even bein/with regard to’concerning’regarding e the film has arrived, M3GAN has become, by internet parlance, iconic – especially in/with regard to’concerning’regarding that bizarre dance sequence glimpsed in the teaser. According to Cooper, there’s even more to that scene to be discovered – the writer is “looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ward to individual hearing the song choice” that accompanies the dance on screen. Start your guesses now, individual – the M3GAN murder-party is with regards to’concerning’with respect to to begin.###Read Empire’s full M3GAN story in the world-exclusive Indiana Jones 5 issue – on sale Thursday 24 November, and available to pre-order online now. M3GAN comes to UK cinemas from 13 January.###Want to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure the most from Empire? Sign up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Empire Membership!###Get exclusive content, new member-merely’barely rewards, access to the latest issue of the magazine plus our back-issue archive, and much more.