Summary
- Blumhouse executive Jason Blum jokes about potential crossover ideas for M3GAN, suggesting M3GAN vs. Five Nights at Freddy's and M3GAN vs. Halloween's Michael Myers.
- While these crossovers are not actually happening, the idea of pitting M3GAN against classic horror villains would make for an exciting and entertaining ride.
- The potential crossovers between M3GAN and Five Nights at Freddy's or Halloween would bring together either toy-like figures turned menacing or a mix of dark comedy and serious horror, respectively.
Blumhouse executive jokes about wild horror crossover opportunities between M3GAN and other horror films. Founded in 2000, Blumhouse is the production studio behind copious modern horror classics, including Sinister, Get Out, and The Black Phone. This year, the studio produced M3GAN, a campy AI-based horror that became an early 2023 hit.
As reported by a Screen Rant representative at New York Comic Con, Blumhouse executive Jason Blum joked about some hilarious M3GAN crossovers. Speaking on a Blumfest panel, Blum chided that he would like to do either M3GAN vs. Five Nights at Freddy’s or M3GAN vs. Halloween’s Michael Myers. Blum was not serious in these crossover pitches, but nonetheless quipped that “licensing would be a nightmare.”
Why These Hypothetical M3GAN Crossovers Would Be Great
While a M3GAN crossover film is not actually on slate, pitting the porcelain robot against a classic horror villain would be a wild ride. The upcoming Five Nights at Freddy’s film could be a particularly ripe opportunity for this crossover, given both film’s monsters take the form of toy-like figures turned sentient. Like M3GAN, Five Nights at Freddy’s gains its horror from being a child’s-plaything-gone-wrong story, giving them a shared sensibility that would make for an interesting crossover.
Perhaps even more hysterical to imagine is the imagined crossover between M3GAN and Halloween. Halloween takes itself much more seriously than M3GAN, with the latter film blending moments of bloodiness with moments of out-of-pocket dark comedy. If M3GAN and Michael Myers were to go into battle, it would be a faceoff between a knife-wielding, silent, killer and a boisterous, eerie robot who risks breaking out into David Guetta’s “Titanium” mid-combat.
M3GAN vs. Five Nights at Freddy’s and M3GAN vs. Halloween are only a fantasy, but that doesn’t mean that the M3GAN universe is necessarily over. Since its successful theatrical run this past winter, M3GAN 2 has been rumored. While Blumhouse has not confirmed the development of M3GAN 2, executive producer Ryan Turek recently stated that “there are some gears turning on M3GAN 2.” Updates like this are a good sign for audiences who fell in love with M3GAN earlier this year.
