The Sundance Film Festival premiere back on January 25th, 2019 has gone over well for I Am Mother as Netflix has picked up the film for distribution. The project is an interesting one as it’s a first-time feature film for the director, it was on the 106 Black List for best unproduced scripts at the time, and the robot suit has some solid cred as Weta Workship built it. It was filmed in 2017 in Australia’s Adelaide Studios and has a small but solid cast for what should be a pretty tight little storyline that will intrigue. Netflix has not set a premiere date for it yet.
Directed by Grant Spulore based on the screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green, the film stars Hilary Swank, Luke Hawker as robot with its physical performance, Rose Byrne as “Mother” with the voice, and Clara Rugaard.
Plot Concept: A teenage girl (Clara Rugaard) is raised underground by a robot Mother (Rose Byrne) designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. The inexplicable arrival of a blood-drenched woman (Swank) threatens this bond, calling into question everything the girl was told about the outside world. She starts probing the robot’s nature and discovers the truth of the Mother’s greater mission.
[Source: Deadline]
