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    'It was way gorier': How 'M3GAN' came to life and landed in theaters (with a lower body count)

    by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times Jan 05, 2023 6 minutes
    Violet McGraw, left, as Cady, M3GAN, and Allison Williams as Gemma in "M3GAN," directed by Gerard Johnstone.

    Years ago, after rising through the ranks on genre TV shows such as "Grimm" and "The 100," screenwriter Akela Cooper found herself at a crossroads. A lifelong horror fan, she'd long put off writing the two horror features that had been swimming around in her head — until one day she committed to putting them on paper, working before and after each day of writing on "Luke Cage."

    The resulting spec scripts landed her a career-changing meeting at James Wan's Atomic Monster Productions, home of the "Conjuring" franchise. Cooper was hired to write the sci-fi horror film "M3GAN," about an AI companion doll gone haywire, then to pen the giallo-infused "Malignant" — shot first and released on HBO Max last year to cult acclaim — and the upcoming Warner Bros. sequel "The Nun 2."

    "M3GAN" — short for "Model 3 Generative Android" — is an uncannily childlike robot invented by Gemma (Allison Williams), who pairs the prototype to her recently orphaned niece Cady (Violet McGraw) while she market-tests the multitasking BFF, babysitter and guardian as an aid to help busy parents in

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