{"id":201959,"date":"2025-10-10T03:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201959\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T03:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T03:16:09","slug":"chris-pratt-movie-shows-scary-ai-future-new-york-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/201959\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt Movie Shows Scary AI Future — New York Comic Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tChris Pratt<\/a> has saved the galaxy, battled velociraptors and is now playing an LAPD detective accused by an AI court of slaying his wife in Amazon MGM Studios<\/a>\u2018 upcoming Mercy<\/a> from Timur Bekmambetov.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe trailer just dropped at New York Comic Con, and we see that Pratt\u2019s Detective Raven, the architect of a system whereby accused felons have 90 minutes to prove their innocence, is now convicted. He\u2019s up against an AI judge (Rebecca Ferguson), and he doesn\u2019t know how this occurred. Pratt\u2019s Raven gets help from his partner (Kali Reis), who helps him retraces his steps.<\/p>\n

\n\tPratt said the movie, which is set in the near future, was shot like a stage play with 60-minute full-length takes. Ferguson\u2019s judge is on a monitor, as you can see in the trailer, with Pratt buckled down in a chair. The actor said he literally was strapped in during the shoot, creating \u201ca natural claustrophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSaid Bekmambetov about having the movie set in real time: \u201cWe live in a world today where AI is knocking on the door and we don\u2019t have time to understand what happened. AI could be our enemy, our friend or our child. This ticking clock is metaphorical of the time we live in now.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tOscar-winning Oppenheimer producer Charles Roven, who also was on today\u2019s NYCC panel, said: \u201cWe got a pitch from a writer, Marco [van Belle], who wrote the script. When we first got the script, people were talking about AI, and it wasn\u2019t happening yet. When we started talking about the movie, all of a sudden companies were dealing with AI, and the future wasn\u2019t definitely not far away. The fact that the movie takes place in 2029, I think every day, every week, every month that goes by, there\u2019s something more that makes our movie true.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGive Mercy props: It was shot in downtown Los Angeles. Bekmambetov shot a truck-chase scene over six days. Talk about taking DP equipment to another level: The director revealed that in addition to shooting the movie with bodycams and drones, he used robo-dogs to film crowd scenes. <\/p>\n

The pic comes hits theaters January 26 via Amazon MGM Studios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Pratt has saved the galaxy, battled velociraptors and is now playing an LAPD detective accused by an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[30862,64,63,15295,134,126028,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-201959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amazon-mgm-studios","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-chris-pratt","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-mercy","14":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}