The first full-length trailer for Companion has dropped, the new genre movie from Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. The film stars Heretic and Yellowjackets actress Sophie Thatcher as a sex bot seeking bloody vengeance, in a tale that combines horror, sci-fi and dark comedy.

The film marks the directorial debut of Drew Hancock, who also wrote the script. Barbarian’s Zach Cregger produces. Rupert Friend, Harvey Guillen, Lukas Cage, Megan Suri, and Jack Quaid also star.

“The silver lining of showing the audience [that] this is a movie about a robot is it’s a way to kind of get ahead of anyone dismissing it as another robot movie,” Hancock states in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Because it’d be so easy to just be like, ‘This is M3GAN,’ or, ‘This is the Megan Fox movie [Subservience].’ It’s a little different to be like, ‘No, this is a robot movie, but it’s not like any other robot movie that’s out right now.’ It’s not A.I. gone wrong, it’s A.I. gone right.”

The director continues to explain: “It’s a movie about self-discovery and, at its core, is a breakup movie about this woman finding empowerment through discovery of self.”

Companion releases in cinemas on January 31st, 2025. Watch the trailer below:

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