The Morgan Project
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Morgan Project |
| Original title | Morgan |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luke Scott |
| script | Seth W. Owen |
| production |
Mark Huffam , Michael Schaefer , Ridley Scott |
| music | Max Richter |
| camera | Mark Patten |
| cut | Laura Jennings |
| occupation | |
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The Morgan Project (original title: Morgan ) is a mystery - horror - science fiction film by Luke Scott , which was released in US cinemas on September 2, 2016 and in German cinemas on December 1, 2016.
action
Lee Weathers, a corporate risk management consultant, is sent to a remote and top secret research station to investigate and assess an incident allegedly caused by an innocent-looking youth. But Morgan, the young woman's name, is only shy at first glance; inside she is a machine and has become completely unpredictable. She is an artificially created human being and has been equipped with synthetic DNA. Morgan developed very quickly and within a very short time had all the expectations of the leading scientist Dr. Simon Ziegler and his team, to which Dr. Lui Cheng, the psychologist Dr. Alan Shapiro and nutritionist Skip Vronsky are outdone. But Morgan has also overtaken its creators in all respects, which makes them dangerous. Weathers' assessment should decide who is responsible for Morgan's actions and whether the girl is turned off or not. This decision is difficult for the risk manager, and when Morgan also starts running amok, she sets out to incapacitate her.
At the end of the film it is revealed that Morgan was a further developed project (No. 9), with which an emotional development should also be artificially initiated - which is considered to have failed after the course and should not be further financed. Instead, project no. 4 is to be further funded, as it works as expected - as Lee Weathers has demonstrated. From this it becomes clear that it was also created synthetically. Both Morgan and Lee were part of a super soldier project.
production
Staff, cast and dubbing
The director took Luke Scott . It is Scott's debut feature film. The screenplay for The Morgan Project was written by Seth W. Owen , whose script received a lot of attention beforehand and in 2014 ended up on the blacklist of Hollywood's best unfilmed ideas . In addition to Mark Huffam and Michael Schaefer , Luke Scott's father Ridley Scott also produced the film.
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The title-giving main role of Morgan was cast with the Argentine-British actress Anya Taylor-Joy , who had recently celebrated her breakthrough as an actress with the lead role in The Witch . As a 10-year-old Morgan is played by Amybeth McNulty . Kate Mara , who played Lee Weathers in the film, had already played Scott's father's Mark Watney in The Martian - Rescues . Toby Jones took on the role of senior scientist Dr. Simon Ziegler. Michelle Yeoh plays Dr. Lui Cheng, Paul Giamatti plays the psychologist Dr. Alan Shapiro and Boyd Holbrook meet nutritionist Skip Vronsky. Rose Leslie received the role of Dr. Amy Menser, Chris Sullivan plays Dr. Darren Finch, and Vinette Robinson plays Dr. Brenda Finch. Brian Cox played Jim Bryce and Michael Yare played Ted Brenner.
The German synchronization was carried out by RC Production . Maria Koschny dubbed Lee Weathers.
Filming
The film was shot in Northern Ireland and Canada . Outdoor recordings took place at Cairndhu House in Larne , County Antrim . A car chase in the film was shot in Newcastle , County Down . Another location was Galgorm Castle, a 400 year old castle in Ballymena . Filming locations in Canada included Coquitlam in British Columbia , and Mount Seymour , where the film was first shot.
Film music
The film music was composed by Max Richter . The soundtrack for the film contains 17 songs and was released by Fox Music on September 2, 2016.
Marketing and Publishing
In late August 2016, 20th Century Fox released a trailer for the film. This was developed by Watson , a supercomputer from IBM manufactured. It is the first trailer in film history to be created using an algorithm. 21st Century Fox and the scientific department of IBM wanted to convey the film subject in an impressive way. The IBM manager John R. Smith stated in a blog entry that Watson had analyzed a total of 100 trailers of horror films in order to produce the approximately 60-second trailer. Watson divided these into segments, and after a visual analysis, an audio analysis and an analysis of the scene composition, the artificial intelligence analyzed the film The Morgan Project and filtered out the appropriate parts. Ultimately, the system decided on ten sequences, from which a film team then put together the trailer.
The film was released in US cinemas on September 2, 2016 and in German cinemas on December 1, 2016.
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is FSK 16 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film contains some scenes of violence and killing. However, these are conclusively embedded in the dramaturgy of the story, do not have an end in themselves and are not played out speculatively. An impairment [is] not to be feared in adolescents from 16 years of age. Viewers of this age are also able to relate the change from the nice child to a brutal monster to the basic moral message of the film ('not everything scientifically feasible is ethically justifiable'). Therefore a socio-ethical disorientation can be excluded. "
Reviews
The film has so far won over 39 percent of Rotten Tomatoes ' critics .
Markus Tschiedert from BZ says: “Not bad for a debut work. Luke Scott managed an intense science fiction shocker with a great mixture of science criticism and energetic action scenes. "
Gross profit
Production costs of approximately $ 8 million are offset by worldwide income from cinema screenings of $ 8.8 million.
Awards (selection)
London Critics' Circle Film Awards 2017
- Nomination for Best British Young Actress ( Anya Taylor-Joy , also for The Witch and Split )
Web links
- The Morgan project in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Morgan project in the German dubbing index
- Official German website for the film
- The Morgan Project . Morgan's development of FoxKino on Youtube (video, German)
- With Watson produced movie trailer of 20th Century Fox on Youtube (video, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for The Morgan Project . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 163119 / K).
- ↑ The Morgan Project In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
- ↑ Stephen Gmble: Ridley Scott sci-fi blockbuster being shot at Larne's Cairndhu House In: larnetimes.co.uk, June 18, 2015.
- ↑ Latest Ridley Scott sci-fi blockbuster being filmed at Galgorm Castle In: ballymenatimes.com, June 15, 2015.
- ↑ Chris Kilpatrick: Ridley Scott's latest Hollywood blockbuster currently being filmed in small Northern Ireland village In: belfastlive.co.uk, June 15, 2015.
- ↑ 'Morgan' Soundtrack Released In: filmmusicreporter.com, September 8, 2016.
- ↑ Julia Alexander: Watch the first ever movie trailer made by artificial intelligence In: polygon.com, September 1, 2016.
- ↑ Giuseppe Rondinella: KI 'Watson' develops the perfect film trailer for 'Morgan' In: horizont.net, September 2, 2016.
- ↑ Reason for approval for The Morgan Project In: Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry. Retrieved January 17, 2017.
- ↑ Morgan In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ↑ Markus Tschiedert: 'The Morgan Project': Ridley Scott's son can also do action thriller In: bz-berlin.de, December 2, 2016.
- ^ Morgan In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ↑ Nancy Tartaglione: 'Moonlight', 'Love & Friendship' Lead London Critics' Circle Nominations In: deadline.com, December 20, 2016.