Morgan (2016 film)
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| Directed by | Luke Scott |
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| Written by | Seth Owen |
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| Music by | Max Richter |
| Cinematography | Mark Patten |
| Edited by | Laura Jennings |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $8.8 million |
Morgan is a 2016 British-American science fiction horror film directed by Luke Scott in his directorial debut and written by Seth Owen. The film features an ensemble cast, including Kate Mara, Anya Taylor-Joy, Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Boyd Holbrook, Michelle Yeoh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Paul Giamatti.
Filming began on May 26, 2015, in Northern Ireland. The film was released on September 2, 2016, by 20th Century Fox.
Lee Weathers (Kate Mara), a stern and self-contained young woman, is a risk-management specialist from a genetic-engineering company. One of their experiments is a human hybrid called Morgan (Anya Taylor-Joy), who is smarter than humans, and who has an advanced-growth rate (appearing about 19, despite only being 5 years old). Lee is called in to investigate after Morgan used a pen to stab one of their scientists Dr. Kathy Grieff (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in the eye. Over dinner with the scientists, Lee (who is revealed to be fluent in Chinese) discusses a previous incident at Helsinki with the lead scientists Dr. Lui Cheng (Michelle Yeoh) and Dr. Simon Ziegler (Toby Jones), in which most of the team of scientists were killed.
Psychologist Dr. Alan Shapiro (Paul Giamatti) does an evaluation of Morgan, and when he taunts her, she kills him. Lee decides that Morgan is too unpredictable, and must be terminated. The scientists, who have raised Morgan from birth, have grown attached to her and cannot bring themselves to kill her. As Lee is about to do so, the scientists inject her with sedative and imprison her in the glass cell in which Morgan had been held. They plan to escape with Morgan, who instead kills most of them. In the scientists' house, Cheng is recording an apology for the failure of the experiment, in which she hints that the company was developing people to be used as weapons. Morgan was their latest experiment, in which they attempted to add more human emotions, only to find that the result was harder to control. After Cheng has finished, Morgan enters the room and suffocates her. Lee escapes the cell, and rushes to stop Morgan. But Morgan breaks away, takes a car, and flees with Dr. Amy Menser (Rose Leslie), who Morgan says is the only one of the scientists who was a real friend to her.
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