Watch: ‘KIMI’ trailer reveals tech employee coping with creepy voice assistant in movie shot in Seattle

Oh, nice. First they scared us with the killer robots, now we now have to fret in regards to the good audio system? Or, maybe extra precisely, whomever is listening to us on the opposite finish of these gadgets?

A brand new trailer dropped Tuesday for the Steven Soderbergh-directed tech thriller “KIMI,” starring Zoe Kravitz as “a voice stream interpreter who overhears a homicide on a recording she was analyzing.” Some scenes had been shot in Seattle.

The outline for the movie says the title “refers to a fictitious Alexa/Siri-like voice-activated digital assistant known as KIMI. It hears all the pieces you say on a regular basis, recording all the pieces for a Huge Brother-like company.”

Wow, what firm may that be?

The speaker within the trailer will get virtually as a lot display time as Kravitz. When it’s woke up by way of voice command, a purple mild illuminates round its base. When Amazon’s Alexa-enabled good audio system get up, a blue ring of sunshine illuminates.

“They’re at all times listening. At all times,” HBO tweeted.

“I’m right here,” KIMI says every time she’s woke up within the trailer.

Kravitz is proven working in her condo in entrance of a financial institution of pc screens. A map on one display reveals downtown Seattle road names, and an aerial shot at one level reveals the distinctive brick sample that’s used on the street close to Westlake Heart.

One other fast shot reveals two males on a pedestrian bridge that connects the brand new Expedia campus in Seattle’s Interbay neighborhood to Elliott Avenue West. The Area Needle is seen within the distance.

When Seattle Met reported on the mission final March, particulars a couple of sub-plot included “protest-filled Seattle streets,” and one shot captures such a scene.

The movie will debut solely on HBO Max on Feb. 10.