Hulu’s Mother/Android trailer: A pregnant Chloë Grace Moretz weathers the robot apocalypse
Euphoria's Algee Smith co-stars, trying to keep his girlfriend and unborn child alive while robot zombies hunt them
Film News Mother/Android
The robot apocalypse can be so dang inconvenient sometimes. Sure, we all like to imagine that, when the Machine Hordes come for us, we’ll be in peak condition, ready to fend off the cyber armies with all the grace of an Olympic athlete. But the harsh reality is that some of us are going to be in slightly rougher shape than others when the digital hammer falls.
Thus the premise presented in the trailer for Mother/Android, a new Hulu film starring Chloë Grace Moretz as a young woman forced to navigate a world overrun by robots while also being several months pregnant. Euphoria’s Algee Smith co-stars as Moretz’s partner, attempting to ferry her and their future child to Boston, which has somehow become the last safe city in the U.S. despite all those terrifying robot dogs from Boston Dynamics being right there.
Interestingly—and despite featuring a machine uprising and a young woman fending off evil robots while pregnant—there’s not a whole lot of Terminator apparent in the film’s DNA. Instead, director Mattson Tomlin seems to be operating mostly in zombie movie territory: The titular androids look mostly human, and their main battle tactic seems to be running at people as fast as they can to emotionlessly tear them apart.
There’s also a pretty hefty dose of A Quiet Place mixed in, too, as Moretz’s pregnant protagonist Georgia struggles to move silently around the semi-perceptive cyber zombies. None of which is necessarily bad—the elemental appeal of watching someone who’s simultaneously in a state of vulnerability and who has something she’s desperate to protect is obvious.
We’ll know whether Mother/Android can actually justify that emotion-grabbing premise in a couple of weeks, when the film—which is being produced by The Batman’s Matt Reeves, plus Adam Kassan and Rafi Crohn—debuts on Hulu, on Friday, December 17.
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Robot zombies?
Rombies? Zombots?
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I’ve always appreciated that chart, and doubly so since he went to the effort of drawing each non-identity combination twice instead of just reusing the art.
Once again Zack Snyder is the blueprint
Does this mean Sean O’Neal is coming back?
Zombie robots?
Pretty sure Hack Snyder has already done this with Army of the Dead.
I’ve already surrendered preemptively to my toaster oven. I’ll be fine.
lol looks fucking terrible
Well this looks shit and I’m already going to take a shot at guessing that the “twist” will be one of the two of them is some advanced form of sex android (because let’s be honest, that would be the second thing created after the first android) and it’s a hybrid child or something.
I also choose this guy’s dead sex robot!
“I also choose this guy’s dead sex robot”
My guess is the twist will be she’ll give birth in the movie’s final moments to a human-machine monster hybrid. Rosemary’s Robot Monster Baby, in other words.
Titane did it.
That sounds so deeply horrendous.
Is this an Army of the Dead sequel?
Quite possibly the best Terminator film that is not actually a Terminator film.
Counterpoint: that movie is remarkably awful
why is she with a black guy?
Old Glory Insurance. For when the metal ones decide to come for you – and they will.
From a producer of The BatmanThat made me laugh a lot. I think it was the “a” that did it.
Yeah. This just looks like android apocalypse in zombie mode. It doesn’t even look like a revolt but more like just someone uploaded a computer zombie virus that made all androids flynch and then just attack.