10 Upcoming Movies With INSANE Premises
4. Renner
As weird as the prospect of a Jeremy Renner biopic might be in the year of our lord 2025, no, that's not what Renner is.
This sci-fi thriller stars Frankie Muniz as the title character - a tech whiz who develops an AI to help him win the affection of the neighbour he has a crush on, Jamie (Violett Beane).
However, it turns out that Renner inadvertently programmed the AI, Salenus (Marcia Gay Harden), with the personality of his overbearing, manipulative mother. The Freudian implications of the plot here basically speak for themselves, with director Robert Rippberger stating that the "darkly Freudian" script is precisely what drew him to direct it in the first place.
While this surely won't be a mainstream comeback vehicle for Muniz - that'll be the recently confirmed Malcolm in the Middle revival - it does rock one hell of an amusingly provocative premise. And with the great Marcia Gay Harden voicing the maternal AI, you know she's going to run away with the whole damn movie.