There’s something about the fall and the beginning of the school year that forces us to crave weightier matters. Popcorn nonsense like Independence Day Resurgence makes way for more thoughtful science fiction fare. While a lot of attention was devoted to the serious Arrival, there was another offering that had some strong themes undercut by weak execution.
From producer Ridley Scott came Morgan, out this week from 20th Century Home Entertainment. The film, starring Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh, Toby Jones, and Paul Giamatti, came and went in a blink so don’t be surprised you don’t recall it.
Today, in our world, scientists are actively growing organs and meat in test tubes, perfecting the process before unleashing their work on society. In Morgan, things have progressed much further, having developed Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) in an isolated lab. Coming to check it out is corporate risk assessor Lee Weathers...
From producer Ridley Scott came Morgan, out this week from 20th Century Home Entertainment. The film, starring Kate Mara, Michelle Yeoh, Toby Jones, and Paul Giamatti, came and went in a blink so don’t be surprised you don’t recall it.
Today, in our world, scientists are actively growing organs and meat in test tubes, perfecting the process before unleashing their work on society. In Morgan, things have progressed much further, having developed Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) in an isolated lab. Coming to check it out is corporate risk assessor Lee Weathers...
- 12/14/2016
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Ahead of its 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD release on December 13th from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Morgan is teased in over nine minutes of footage from the film that offers viewers an idea of what to expect from the AI thriller.
"From Oscar-Nominated Producer Ridley Scott and Director Luke Scott (making his feature directorial debut) comes the sci-fi thriller Morgan arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray & DVD 12/13 and out now on Digital HD featuring the all-star cast Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rose Leslie and Anya Taylor-Joy! Special Features include, "Modified Organism: The Science Behind Morgan," Deleted Scenes, Luke's short film Loom (precursor to Morgan shot on 4K 3D) and more!
The sci-fi horror features a risk management consultant (Mara) who is sent to a remote top-secret lab where she's tasked to investigate a terrifying accident by a seemingly innocent "human" - Morgan (Taylor-Joy) - who is enigmatic,...
"From Oscar-Nominated Producer Ridley Scott and Director Luke Scott (making his feature directorial debut) comes the sci-fi thriller Morgan arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray & DVD 12/13 and out now on Digital HD featuring the all-star cast Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rose Leslie and Anya Taylor-Joy! Special Features include, "Modified Organism: The Science Behind Morgan," Deleted Scenes, Luke's short film Loom (precursor to Morgan shot on 4K 3D) and more!
The sci-fi horror features a risk management consultant (Mara) who is sent to a remote top-secret lab where she's tasked to investigate a terrifying accident by a seemingly innocent "human" - Morgan (Taylor-Joy) - who is enigmatic,...
- 12/9/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Unlike Morgan, we want to let this out. Morgan, Luke Scott's directorial debut, will arrive on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD on December 13th, and is out now on Digital HD. We have a clip from a featurette that explains the science behind Morgan—one of the special features included on the release.
"From Oscar-Nominated Producer Ridley Scott and Director Luke Scott (making his feature directorial debut) comes the sci-fi thriller Morgan arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray & DVD 12/13 and out now on Digital HD featuring the all-star cast Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rose Leslie and Anya Taylor-Joy! Special Features include, "Modified Organism: The Science Behind Morgan," Deleted Scenes, Luke's short film Loom (precursor to Morgan shot on 4K 3D) and more!
The sci-fi horror features a risk management consultant (Mara) who is sent to a remote top-secret lab where she's tasked to...
"From Oscar-Nominated Producer Ridley Scott and Director Luke Scott (making his feature directorial debut) comes the sci-fi thriller Morgan arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray & DVD 12/13 and out now on Digital HD featuring the all-star cast Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rose Leslie and Anya Taylor-Joy! Special Features include, "Modified Organism: The Science Behind Morgan," Deleted Scenes, Luke's short film Loom (precursor to Morgan shot on 4K 3D) and more!
The sci-fi horror features a risk management consultant (Mara) who is sent to a remote top-secret lab where she's tasked to...
- 12/6/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Whatever you do, don't let these out... but via home media release is okay. The Ridley Scott-produced Morgan and the Kate Beckinsale-starring The Disappointments Room are both coming out on home media this December, and we have a look at the cover art and lists of special features.
Press Release: From Producer Ridley Scott, The Intense Sci-fi Thriller Arrives On Digital HD December 2 And On 4K Ultra HD Disc, Blu-ray And DVD December 13
Morgan
From Oscar®-Nominated producer Ridley Scott* and director Luke Scott comes this visceral, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an all-star cast starring Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rose Leslie. Inside a remote, top-secret lab, a group of scientists are working on an experiment that is leading the way for the next steps in human evolution. But when the experiment’s subject – a genetically designed “human”
(Anya Taylor-Joy) – triggers a terrifying event,...
Press Release: From Producer Ridley Scott, The Intense Sci-fi Thriller Arrives On Digital HD December 2 And On 4K Ultra HD Disc, Blu-ray And DVD December 13
Morgan
From Oscar®-Nominated producer Ridley Scott* and director Luke Scott comes this visceral, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an all-star cast starring Kate Mara, Paul Giamatti, Toby Jones, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Rose Leslie. Inside a remote, top-secret lab, a group of scientists are working on an experiment that is leading the way for the next steps in human evolution. But when the experiment’s subject – a genetically designed “human”
(Anya Taylor-Joy) – triggers a terrifying event,...
- 10/26/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Many storytellers have used science fiction to question human existence. Even if you haven’t read Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, you know the story of Dr. Frankenstein and his creation. You know of a scientist – I’ll leave calling him “mad” up to you – and his search to understand life and in doing so how he magically creates new life. You know of a tragic creature who is thrust into a world that is both fascinated and yet repelled by it. Though many would call the Frankenstein creature a him instead of an it, Kate Mara’s character Lee Weathers would be quick to correct you. Apparently artificial life should not be given proper pronouns, and while Luke Scott’s feature film debut seems ready to address the contemporary concerns over gender labels and life existing outside male and female labels, Morgan regresses into yet another forgettable attempt at...
- 9/1/2016
- by Michael Haffner
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sci-fi thriller Morgan, which hits theatres this Friday, marks the directorial debut of Luke Scott and takes a look at what happens when an artificially created humanoid being, genetically altered and DNA enhanced, begins to think and act out on its own.
The plot explores some touchy moral areas about creating synthetic life, as it focuses on an AI named Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) who grows to young adulthood in just five years and begins to realize her strengths and her need to have more freedom, which leads to an attack on one of the scientists who created her.
The big guns funding the “experiment” send in a corporate risk-management consultant, Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), to decide whether or not to terminate the “project.” Problem is, the scientists have grown fond of Morgan and think of her as a young woman rather than an “it” and so try to justify her...
The plot explores some touchy moral areas about creating synthetic life, as it focuses on an AI named Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy) who grows to young adulthood in just five years and begins to realize her strengths and her need to have more freedom, which leads to an attack on one of the scientists who created her.
The big guns funding the “experiment” send in a corporate risk-management consultant, Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), to decide whether or not to terminate the “project.” Problem is, the scientists have grown fond of Morgan and think of her as a young woman rather than an “it” and so try to justify her...
- 9/1/2016
- by Kit Bowen
- We Got This Covered
We've seen the name Luke Scott before. A few years ago, Ridley Scott's son made a big splash with a great short film called Loom (see it here) which suggested Scott Jr. had some talent behind the camera.
Admittedly, not just any director is given the opportunity to jump from something like Loom directly to a big budget sci-fi thriller but that last name certainly opens doors and though it likely had a big part to play in getting the project into production, Luke Scott still needed to direct the darned thing and judging from our first look at Morgan, he seems to have done a fine job.
The movie, which Scott co-wrote with Seth W. Owen, stars Kate Mara as [Continued ...]...
Admittedly, not just any director is given the opportunity to jump from something like Loom directly to a big budget sci-fi thriller but that last name certainly opens doors and though it likely had a big part to play in getting the project into production, Luke Scott still needed to direct the darned thing and judging from our first look at Morgan, he seems to have done a fine job.
The movie, which Scott co-wrote with Seth W. Owen, stars Kate Mara as [Continued ...]...
- 5/25/2016
- QuietEarth.us
Luke Scott has been slowly following in his famous father, Ridley Scott‘s, footsteps. Mostly known for his work in the world of commercials, he created some minor buzz with his sci-fi short “Loom” a few years back, and now he’s diving into his first feature film with “Morgan.” With his Dad making the grandaddy of […]
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- 5/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
It started with an impossible poodle. Cortney Wisbauer was fresh out of William Paterson University with a degree in Art Education but no immediate teaching job when two girls she babysits begged her last December to help them with something they saw online: a toy poodle fashioned out of rubber bands woven over a pegged loom. "I watched the video and just had no idea how to do it," says Wisbauer, 23, an artist and aspiring K-through-12 art teacher who lives with her parents in northern New Jersey. "But I went home that day telling myself that one day I'm going...
- 11/30/2014
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall
- PEOPLE.com
Today’s film is the 2012 short Loom. The film is written and directed by Luke Scott, and is co-produced by Ridley Scott. It stars Jellybean Howie and Giovanni Ribisi. Over the span of a career lasting nearly 30 years, Ribisi has appeared in numerous tv shows, such as The Wonder Years, Friends, and Dads, as well as movies such as That Thing You Do!, Saving Private Ryan, and Gone in Sixty Seconds. His newest film, titled A Million Ways to Die in the West, opened in wide release in American theatres this weekend.
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- 6/1/2014
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
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