Oh, nice. First they scared us with the killer robots, now we now have to fret concerning 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 film says the title “refers to a fictitious Alexa/Siri-like voice-activated digital assistant known as KIMI. It hears the whole lot you say on a regular basis, recording the whole lot for a Huge Brother-like company.”

Wow, what firm may that be?

The speaker in the trailer will get nearly as a lot display screen time as Kravitz. When it’s woke up by way of voice command, a purple gentle 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 in the trailer.

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

One other fast shot shows 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 in the space.

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

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