Domhnall Gleeson falls under the spell of a beguiling robot in the forthcoming sci-fi thriller, Ex Machina. Here's the latest trailer...
Domhnall Gleeson, the Irish actor who's appeared in such varied things as Never Let Me Go, Dredd and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, has a big year ahead of him in 2015. For one thing, he's cast in an unspecified role in Star Wars: Episode VII, and there's also The Revenant, a western which also stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy.
Then there's Ex Machina, which is described as an "intense psychological thriller" about a coder named Caleb (Gleeson) who spends a week in the home of Nathan (Oscar Isaac) the secretive boss of a huge internet company. Nathan's been secretly working on Ava, an artificially intelligent being played by Alicia Vikander. A bond grows between Caleb and Ava, and as the trailer below suggests, it all threatens to get terribly out of hand.
Ex Machina will be the directorial debut of Alex Garland, the writer of such films as 28 Days Later, Sunshine, The Beach, and Dredd, and based on the glimpses we see below, it looks like a confident first foray behind the camera. The trailer's necessarily cagey about the direction the story will go in, but the design of the robot's spookily transparent torso is impressively done.
Ex Machina is out in UK cinemas on the 23rd January 2015 and in the US on April 10th.
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