THE cinema world will be intrigued to see Morgan, with a director who has learned from the very best.
Luke Scott is the son of Ridley Scott, the Englishman who has brought us everything from the Hovis TV commercial to Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator and Hannibal.
South Shields-born Ridley has produced the new movie, and Luke learned the ropes as second director on a few earlier films.
Now, Luke attempts to step out of Dad’s shadow, and with Kate Mara, Toby Jones and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Morgan, it’s tipped to launch him towards his father’s kind of fame.
Morgan is the tale of an artificial being, created in a laboratory, and a risk-management consultant’s quandary — terminate the being or let it live?
It’s all, as you can imagine, very high-tech, futuristic and hard to take your eyes off, and early impressions are that Luke and his father have come up with a real belter.
If the Scotts are enjoying some father-and-son pride about the film, Kata Mara knows she will always be compared to her acting sister, Rooney.
Rooney Mara played the lead in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and has enjoyed a fair bit of success, but Kata insists there is no sibling rivalry.
“If we were up for the same job, our agents wouldn’t tell us!” she has joked.
“But Rooney was better at school than me, she explored other interests and she was different.”
Their mother would often take the girls to see the latest big movies when they were kids, but there isn’t much that would overawe the Mara sisters.
Their father, after all, and his own siblings, are owners of the New York Giants, while Mum’s family own the Pittsburgh Steelers!
Kate plays Lee Weathers in Morgan, the corporate woman sent to shut down the lab, only to find that the being, Morgan, is turning a bit violent and getting rather out of control.
She does, in fact, spend quite a big part of the movie being thrown around, through windows and the like, but always getting back up and giving as good as she gets.
So perhaps it’s just as well that she and her real-life sister get on so well!
But Kate isn’t in the least bit bothered that Rooney has done very well in her own right, despite being the younger sister, insisting: “I just feel so grateful that we’re both living our dreams successfully.
“To be able to share that with someone you grew up with is really special.”
It would be special, too, for Ridley Scott to be able to say definitively that his son is going to carry on the high standards Dad has set.
To see his run of hits continue would be fantastic.
However, Anya Taylor-Joy, just 20 and playing Morgan, could upstage the lot of them.
American-born, but with British and Argentinian roots, she is already signed-up for multiple big movies of the future, notably one about Barack Obama’s childhood and youth, and is being tipped for superstardom after her job in Morgan.
Morgan is out on Friday, September 2
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