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Jan 27, 2017 · With Bill Milner, Maisie Williams, Miranda Richardson, Rory Kinnear. After being shot, Tom awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smartphone have been embedded in his head--and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of superpowers.
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- Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
- Adam Randall
- 2017-01-27
- IBoy Isn’T Your Typical Superhero Film
- Tom Is No Hero, and Lucy Is No Damsel in Distress
- Tom’s Faults Are Relatable
- So “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”?
- What Are These Powers Anyway?
- It’S Not All So Far-Fetched
- The Filmmakers Stayed True to The Book’S Spirit
- Williams and Milner’s Friendship Is For Real
- Milner Is Ready to Play Leading Man
“At first glance, it could look like quite a typical urban sci-fi sort of superhero movie, but what really drew me to it was its character development,” Milner tells Rotten Tomatoes. While there’s plenty of action sequences and special effects to satiate your sci-fi appetite, iBoyvalues the relationship between its two leads over CGI glitz. After a...
“First of all, Tom is an unlikely hero. He’s also not really a hero, which is perhaps what I like about him,” Randall says. When Tom gets these powers, he’s dead-set on avenging Lucy by making her assailants pay. But it’s a typical hotheaded teen reaction, when Lucy doesn’t really want his help. “He gets these powers, and he reacts and moves throug...
Though Milner and Randall are quick to point out Tom’s flaws as a hero, they both insist that they’re not criticizing. “Because he’s flawed, hopefully he’s relatable or at least we can have empathy for him in that he’s a teenage boy who’s spent most of his life shutting off the world outside and suddenly it’s come flooding in, and he’s trying to fi...
“Not so much,” Randall deadpans. “In a way, I think it’s first of all that great power is fun and fulfilling to get back at these people, to get power over these people that’ve had power over him and Lucy his whole life as the local thugs. It’s more, ‘With great power comes great regret.’ ‘With great power comes great irresponsibility.’ Great power...
“We spoke for a long, long time about the use of powers and how they manifest themselves and how far we want to take the specific powers element of it,” Milner says. “The thing is with these powers there are no limits. There is so much that you can imagine that can be done. So we would often sit there for hours, just minds racing about all the poss...
In the five years since Randall became attached to the project, he’s seen firsthand the landmark technological developments in products like Google Glass. The human-supercomputer hybrid seen in Tom may not be that far off, after all. “Technology has moved on so much since I’ve read the book. So much has changed, it’s incredible. So many things have...
Milner says that while filming, the book’s author Kevin Brooks was very hands-off, but the filmmakers remained loyal to feeling and the world of their source material just the same. “There are things that we really like about the book, and there were things that maybe work better in a book and less well on film,” he says. “We have respected the boo...
Though they hadn’t worked together before iBoy, both Milner and Randall say the chemistry between the co-leads was immediate. “They got on incredibly well,” Randall says. “There was such warmth between the two of them, and there was a huge amount of giggling and laughing going on between takes. Their dynamic was just so believable and touching and ...
While he’s been a working kid and teen actor for years (perhaps you’ll recognize him as Young Magneto in X-Men: First Class?), iBoyis Milner’s first major introduction to American audiences in a leading role. “It’s something very new to me,” he admits. “When I was a lot younger, I was doing some kind of bigger roles. Then when I was a teenager, I k...
Jan 27, 2017 · Apr 30, 2018. A teenager (Bill Milner) wakes from a coma to discover that fragments from his broken smartphone have been embedded into his brain and turned him into an actualized app with super ...
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- Bill Milner
- Adam Randall
- Action, Sci-Fi
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Streaming charts last updated: 9:17:12 PM, 05/08/2024. iBoy is 10103 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 5328 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Whale Rider but less popular than Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
- 2017
- Tom Harvey; Lucy Walker; Ellman
- Adam Randall
Jan 12, 2017 · Jan 12, 2017, 7:43 AM PST. Netflix released the official trailer for its original movie iBoy today, and boy oh boy, we’re in for an interesting two hours. The film is about a teen named...
Feb 18, 2023 · Parents need to know that iBoy is based on the sci-fi Kevin Brooks novel of the same name. The premise is that a smartphone accidentally embedded in a boy's brain gives him super cyber-powers. The movie's focus is on the defenseless, crime-plagued, inhabitants of South London public housing and the….
