SPOILER WARNING: The next article accommodates main spoilers for the tip of Drew Hancock’s Companion. You probably have not but seen the movie, proceed at your personal danger!
Sophie Thatcher’s Iris goes on fairly the journey in Companion. After we first meet her, she is a robotic programmed to comply with the instructions and whims of her proprietor/boyfriend (Jack Quaid’s Josh), however the loopy journey on the lake home sees her achieve not solely full independence however an entire lot of cash. The film has a happy-albeit-violent ending, with Iris killing Josh and driving off to a vibrant future… however what occurs subsequent? In keeping with author/director Drew Hancock, it’s nothing that may make materials worthy of a sequel.
There isn’t any tech rebellion, and there isn’t even a political motion advocating for robotic rights. It’s merely a life that’s led as conflict-free as potential. As captured within the video up high, I requested Drew Hancock about his imaginative and prescient of Iris’ future throughout the pre-release press day for Companion in Los Angeles, and he defined why he doubts he’ll ever make a Companion 2. Mentioned the filmmaker,
It will make a horrible sequel. My preferrred… She goes off, she makes use of the $12 million to purchase a farm, after which she simply enjoys residing on the land and making dinners for herself that she will’t eat, however she’s residing this like type of simply passive life and having fun with the sundown and never getting concerned in some type of robotic rebellion. It is extra about her simply residing out an idealized human retirement expertise.
I do know it’s a completely worn out web phrase, however I actually do love that for Iris. She experiences some actual horror throughout her relationship with Josh (who’s revealed as a controlling, insecure, entitled, merciless asshole over the course of the movie), and it shouldn’t be on her to vary the world when she features true independence. Maybe she will go away that to the opposite Companion robotic she sees on the street whereas driving on the finish of the movie, as she goes to have some critical questions on her existence after seeing her doppelgänger on the freeway.
Additionally, Iris might very properly have a capability that I’d say most of us lack: the capability to be completely content material. Being a robotic, she doesn’t ever must really feel bored or anxious; she will dwell the identical day day by day and simply be joyful.
However is {that a} good film? As Drew Hancock put it,
I do not suppose Warner Bros. could be pleased with that model of it, however that is my sequel to Companion.
Additionally starring Harvey Guillen, Lukas Gage, Megan Suri, and Rupert Pal along with the aforementioned Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid, Companion remains to be taking part in in theaters across the nation following its massive display screen launch on the finish of January, however these of you who want to watch the unbelievable 2025 horror film once more within the consolation of your personal houses will now discover that the movie is offered to digitally lease and buy from main on-line shops together with Amazon Prime Video, Fandango At Residence and Apple.