How 'M3GAN' turned a 10-year-old David Guetta and Sia hit into spooky murder-doll music
M3GAN — the titular, murderous robotic star of the decade's buzziest horror film — is a villain tailor-made for these modern times.
In the film, devised by writers Akela Cooper and James Wan, a tween-sized robot named M3GAN — an acronym for "Model 3 Generative Android" — is created by a roboticist (played by Alison Williams) to be a companion to her newly orphaned niece, Cady (played by Violet McGraw).
In the movie trailer, M3GAN flaunts her killer (sorry) dance moves, which are modeled after everyday TikTok challenges. In the weeks leading up to the film's Jan. 6 release, M3GAN cosplayers executed her strange choreography in some brilliant TikToks (and flash mobs) of their own.
But in theaters across the United States. Voiced impeccably by the 18-year-old YouTube star Jenna Davis, the tween doll transforms "," David Guetta and Sia's 2011 techno-pop hit, into a menacing minute-long lullaby. ("You shoot me down, but I won't fall," she warbles as the camera hones in on her glassy eyes: "I am titanium!") Inside a theater in Glendale, the scene cued incredulous laughter from the audience.
