Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac may be leading a certain highly-anticipated sci-fi feature later next year, but there’s another that’s near the top of our radar. After working closely with Danny Boyle on films such as Sunshine, 28 Days Later, and The Beach, Alex Garland will make his directorial debut with Ex Machina, and after the impressive first trailer, the debut clips has landed.
The story centers on a love triangle of sorts with Alicia Vikander as a robot woman in the middle, who is the world’s first true artificial intelligence. While she (it?) hasn’t been awakened yet, this first clip shows what looks to be an early scene between Gleeson and Isaac’s characters as they discuss “The Turing Test,” a timely reminder of the influence of the man portrayed in this fall’s drama. Check it out below.
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac). Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test – charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated, seductive––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.
Ex Machina arrives on April 10th, 2015.