This year is off to one hell of a start with horror hit M3GAN, which is smashing expectations at the box office. The film opened to $30.2 million domestically and a whopping $45 million worldwide, all but ensuring that we haven’t seen the last of the AI doll that danced her way into our nightmares – and hearts. And it sounds like M3GAN 2 is already in early development!

Deadline reports in an article about M3GAN‘s box office success to kick off the week, “We heard on Friday, per sources, that a sequel is already in early development.”

Meanwhile, producer James Wan teases on Facebook..

“Jason Blum and myself are beyond thankful and grateful to see how much love M3GAN is receiving, and hopefully what all this means is that we get the chance to explore the bigger world of A.I. and perhaps witness — M3gan’s Revenge????”

SPOILER WARNING: M3GAN ends with the titular doll being destroyed, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the Child’s Play franchise it’s that killer dolls can never truly be killed!

Stay tuned for more on M3GAN 2 as we learn it.

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child’s greatest companion and a parent’s greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Get Out’s Allison Williams), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to.

When Gemma suddenly becomes the caretaker of her orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw, The Haunting of Hill House), Gemma’s unsure and unprepared to be a parent. Under intense pressure at work, Gemma decides to pair her M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems—a decision that will have unimaginable consequences.

Produced by Jason Blum and James Wan, M3GAN is directed by award-winning filmmaker Gerard Johnstone (Housebound), from a screenplay by Akela Cooper (Malignant, The Nun 2) based on a story by Akela Cooper and James Wan.