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A Lookback At UPGRADE: Come For The Premise, Stay For The Action

Leigh Whannell’s Upgrade is what happens when you mix together The Matrix, the Terminator series, pretty much any of sci-fi story involving AI, and a splash of Donna Haraway’s “The Cyborg Manifesto”. The film takes place at some point in the future, and focuses on Grey, who has become a paraplegic after a car accident and an attack. He is implanted with a chip that gives him the ability to use his limbs again. This is especially ironic given that Grey is someone who prizes the human effort put into manual labor. We know this because he was formerly a car mechanic who specialized in fixing old cars that, unlike most of the cars in this future world, still require a person to drive them. That Grey now requires the use of AI to even function as a fully-fledged human being is slightly tragic. The chip, known as STEM, is […]

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UPGRADE: Leigh Whannell’s Explosive Sci-Fi Action Horror Lands A TV Sequel Series

Leigh Whannell’s 2018 Blumhouse-produced hit sci-fi action thriller, Upgrade, is officially headed for television. Whannell directed the SXSW Audience Award-winner, which centers on a tetraplegic imbued with STEM, an advanced A.I. tech that enables him to physically carry out his own campaign against the four supersoldiers that injured him and killed his wife, only to put him face to face with an even more nefarious conspirator. As Deadline‘s own Nellie Andreeva exclusively reports, Whannell, fresh off directing a reboot of The Invisible Man for Universal Pictures, is returning to direct the series, on which he will serve as co-creator and executive producer with Tim Walsh (Treadstone). Per the report, Upgrade, in its series form “picks up a few years after the events of the film and broadens the universe with an evolved version of STEM and a new host – imagining a world in which the government repurposes STEM to […]

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UPGRADE: Logan Marshall-Green Is Unstoppable In The Latest Red-Band Trailer

Like anyone who went to SXSW this year and was able to catch the hell out of Leigh Whannell’s sci-fi action thriller, Upgrade, I was an absolute mess. I was even more destroyed by how damn cool the very first red-band trailer looked a few months ago and I love how it’s catching on to other folks who are curious. The campaign continues until that badass looking film releases this Friday from BH Tilt to stir the final round of press. With this, they’ve released a new minute-long trailer filled with rhythmic buzz quotes from previous reviews, all tuned to the percussion of Logan Marshall-Green as a paralyzed technophobe adapting to his newfound abilities by way of an experimental chip that repairs his motorskills and gives him the ability to be the plainly-dressed cyber-powered avenger we didn’t know we needed! UPGRADE is a thrilling and hyper violent vision of the […]

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The Official Red-Band Trailer For Leigh Whannell’s SXSW Stunner, UPGRADE, Is The Best Thing You’ll See Today

More than two decades in with memorable film and acting credits in titles like The Matrix Reloaded and the Insidious franchise, it’s no secret that Leigh Whannell’s other pursuits in film have been behind the lens for sometime now. He also wrote the Insidious and Saw films as well as the Millott/Murnion horror romp, Cooties, which proved to be a rousing crowdpleaser several years ago. Whannell’s craft and ability to tap into audience made clear, his latest, Upgrade, continued making his case this year upon premiering at SXSW, with critics flooding the internet with praise, and others echoing their sentiments all over Twitter. The film is opening on June 1 and rest assured, it’s an omnious occasion for Blumhouse having earned itself quite the favor after hits such as Get Out and Happy Death Day. Whannell pens the script for Upgrade with a story set in an age when technology […]

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