EXCLUSIVE: Following her breakout position as Shin Hati within the hit Star Wars collection Ahsoka, Ivanna Sakhno has discovered her subsequent huge position as sources inform Deadline she has landed a serious position in M3GAN 2.0, a sequel to the hit movie from Atomic Monster and Blumhouse in affiliation with Divide/Conquer. She joins a forged that features Allison Williams and Violet McGraw, who have been beforehand introduced.
The sequel’s script is penned by Akela Cooper, who wrote the primary movie, and Gerard Johnstone, who directed the primary movie. James Wan, Jason Blum and Allison Williams are producers on the hit movie’s follow-up. Johnstone and Mark Katchur are government producers. Michael Clear and Judson Scott, of Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, will government produce. Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek is an government producer. Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath, from Divide/Conquer, are additionally government producers.
The unique movie revolves round a life-like AI doll of the identical identify that’s programmed to be a baby’s biggest companion and a father or mother’s biggest ally. Designed by sensible toy-company roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams), M3GAN can hear, watch and study as she turns into pal and instructor, playmate and protector, for the kid she is bonded to. That movie would go on to make $180 million on the world box-office on a $12 million funds with a sequel rapidly going into growth. Plot particulars on the sequel are unknown at the moment.
As for Sakhno, stars because the antagonist Shin Hati within the critically acclaimed collection Ahsoka for Disney+, a by-product from the favored collection The Mandalorian. She rose to prominence in movies equivalent to Pacific Rim: Rebellion and The Spy Who Dumped Me, the place she captivated audiences alongside co-star Mila Kunis, and the lead position within the Lionsgate movie Let It Snow. In tv she carried out reverse Zoe Kravitz in HULU’s Excessive Constancy and a lead position within the French, MGM Worldwide TV restricted collection The Reunion which was proven on the Cannes TV Competition. Sakhno has been an outspoken advocate for her homeland of Ukraine and serves as an Ambassador of United 24, the official fundraising platform launched by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Sakhno is repped by represented by Gersh, United Brokers, MJ Administration, Sloane Provide Weber Dern.