From director April Mullen (Wander) comes the sci-fi thriller Simulant starring Robbie Amell (Code 8) and Sam Worthington (Avatar: The Way of Water).
Synopsis: With androids (SIMS) and humans coexisting, Simulant centers around FAYE (Jordana Brewster) who has already pulled the plug on her late husband, now she can’t bring herself to do the same to EVAN (Robbie Amell), his android counterpart. Instead of deactivating Evan, Faye sets him up in an apartment to live illegally on his own. While there he meets Casey (Simu Liu), a brilliant programmer who helps him become more human in order to win Faye back. Unbeknownst to Evan, his new friend is wanted for questioning by a determined Artificial Intelligence Compliance Enforcement (AICE) agent Kessler (Sam Worthington). Evan has to win over Faye’s heart before they are both discovered and he loses everything.
Also starring Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and Jordana Brewster (F9: The Fast Saga), Simulant is set for a theatrical release in Canada on April 7th via Mongrel. Vertical is handling the US and UK/Ireland release On Demand May 5th followed by a theatrical and VOD release on June 2nd.
