No one says “disreputable scientist” like Toby Jones, so it’s no mistake the first trailer for Morgan features him prominently. It looks like it’s going to be one of those Twilight Zone–type films, set in a world almost exactly like our own, except for one little detail that throws everything into creepy disarray. In this case, of course, the change is that no one has read or watched Frankenstein, to say nothing of A.I., Splice, WarGames, or All About Eve. How else to explain the fact that it seemed like a good idea to the film’s characters to build some sort of artificial human?
While it may not be the freshest premise, the slow track in to Mara with off-screen footsteps is genuinely creepy, so with any luck this will be at least as good as Ex Machina, even if it doesn’t have Oscar Isaac dancing.
