Directed by Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One,” “Godzilla”), the film stars John David Washington (“Tenet”), Gemma Chan (“Eternals”), Ken Watanabe (“Inception”), Sturgill Simpson (“Dog”), newcomer Madeleine Yuna Voyles and Academy Award® winner Allison Janney (“I, Tonya”).
Amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua (Washington), a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife (Chan), is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war… and mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory… only to discover the world-ending weapon he’s been instructed to destroy is an AI in the form of a young child.
Opens in theaters September 29, 2023.
Video transcript
– What’s Heaven?
– It’s a peaceful place in the sky.
[“DREAM ON” PLAYING]
– Are you going to Heaven?
– No.
– Why not?
– You got to be a good person to go to Heaven.
– (SINGING) Every time that I look–
– 10 years ago today, the artificial intelligence created to protect us detonated a nuclear warhead in Los Angeles.
– (SINGING) The past is gone.
– For as long as AI is a threat–
– (SINGING) It went by–
– –we will never stop hunting. This is a fight for our very existence.
– Whatever’s in there, they’re sure worried about someone getting in. Yeah, or it getting out.
– (SINGING) You know it’s true. All the tings come back to you.
– We’re the same. We can’t go to heaven because you’re not good, and I’m not a person.
– (SINGING) Dream on. Dream on.
– Did you locate the weapon?
– Yeah. It’s a kid. Seatbelts.
– (SINGING) Dream on.
– What do you want with the child?
– (SINGING) Dream until your dreams come true.
– We are this close to winning the war. Execute her, or we go extinct.
– They’re coming to get me.
– (SINGING) Dream on. Dream on Dream on. Dream until your dreams come true. Dream until your dreams come true.