Director ‘had to fight for that one’

Warning: this article contains a minor spoiler M3GAN 2.0.

Kate Bush continues to “run this hill” from the notoriety of pop culture.

After Foreign things Season 4 gave a boost in 1985 in the businesses in streaming almost four decades later, M3GAN 2.0 The writer and director Gerard Johnstone chose another piece of Bush – “This Woman’s Work” from 1988 – to appear in his film.

The first M3ganReleased in 2022, became viral for several reasons, one of which was a scene that saw the killer robot from the protector Campy sing David Guetta and the Hit of SIA electronic dance “Titanium” to the character of Cady (McGraw Violet). For the spiritual successor of this moment, the continuation sees M3gan, now reconstructed in a new Bot body, singing “the work of this woman” for its creator, Gemma of Allison Williams.

Johnstone tells Weekly entertainment He had a different song in mind, but only because the script was at the origin of the different circumstances leading to this musical moment. He does not want to reveal what this song was because “we obtained approval for that”, he notes, and does not “want to speak badly”.

“When the script changed and this scene has become more about Allison’s character saying what failure she had been,” said Johnstone, “it was really a mother.”

M3GAN 2.0 Resumes two years after the events of the original. Gemma now pleads for the government regulations of the AI ​​at a time when Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno), a new killer robot made from stolen plans for M3gan, kills any person involved in its creation. To stop it, Gemma brings M3gan herself, now in an improved body.

Williams previously explained how the team knew that everyone’s favorite viral sensation needed to dance and sing again. Johnstone has compiled a reading list of about five songs that were in the running to become the new “titanium”.

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“I brought my wife and I played each of them for her,” he recalls. “” This woman’s work “has such an unusual beginning to a song that it was the clear winner, even if he does not have the recognition of the ‘Titanium’ ‘, for example, of the first film. He simply wins because it is so strange. So, I had to fight for that a little, but I had the confidence of everyone at the same time, and I think that everyone was very satisfied.”

Regarding the security of musical rights, James Wan, a producer on M3gan films through his company Atomic Monster, said to EW: “I think the first film helped. Did you know what I mean? I think M3gan is such a fun platform so that people want to come and play with us. So I think that gave us a lot of lever to ask for things. “”

M3GAN 2.0 Now play in theaters.