EXCLUSIVE: Following her breakout role as Shin Hati in the hit Star Wars series Ahsoka, Ivanna Sakhno has found her next big role. Sources tell Deadline she has landed a major part in M3GAN 2.0, a sequel to the hit film from Atomic Monster and Blumhouse in association with Divide/Conquer.
She joins a cast that includes Allison Williams and Violet McGraw.
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Plot details on M3GAN 2.0 are unknown, but the original film revolves around a life-like AI doll that is programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Williams), M3GAN can listen, watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to. That film would go on to make $180 million worldwide on a $12 million budget, with a sequel quickly going into development.
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The sequel’s script is penned by Akela Cooper, who wrote the first film, and Gerard Johnstone, who directed M3GAN. James Wan, Jason Blum and Williams are producers on the hit film’s follow-up. Johnstone and Mark Katchur are executive producers. Michael Clear and Judson Scott of Wan’s Atomic Monster banner will executive produce. Blumhouse’s Ryan Turek is an EP. Adam Hendricks and Greg Gilreath from Divide/Conquer also are executive producers.
Sakhno stars as the antagonist Shin Hati in the Disney+ drama Ahsoka, a spinoff from the popular series The Mandalorian. She rose to prominence in films such as Pacific Rim: Uprising and The Spy Who Dumped Me — where she starred alongside Mila Kunis — and the lead role in the Lionsgate film Let It Snow. In television she appeared opposite Zoe Kravitz in Hulu’s High Fidelity and had a lead role in the French limited series The Reunion, which was shown at the Cannes TV Festival. 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 Agents, MJ Management, Sloane Offer Weber Dern.
