Ex Machina helmer Alex Garland takes on Annihilation for Paramount

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Well that didn’t take long…

Only a day or two after the net was flooded with the first posters and trailers for Alex Garland’s EX MACHINA, it looks like Paramount liked what they saw enough to give the dude a follow up gig.

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According to Variety, Garland has been hired to write (adapt) and direct upcoming thriller ANNIHILATION, a movie first told you about last March. The great Scott Rudin will producing ANNIHILATION with Eli Bush. Based on the first book of Jeff VanderMeer’s “Southern Reach Trilogy”, ANNIHILATION follows:

A biologist who, in seeking answers to her husband’s tragic disappearance, volunteers for an expedition into an area sealed off by the government for the last 30 years as an environmental disaster zone. A secret agency known as the Southern Reach has sent in 11 expeditions over those years to discover the truth about Area X, and those attempts were failures. The tale is narrated by the biologist attached to the mission. She and her team find a pristine wilderness, but they also notice quickly that the rules of nature and evolution seem to work a little differently. And the creature they find is dangerous.

Seems pretty apt material for a guy (Garland) who penned 28 DAYS LATER, SUNSHINE and DREDD, no?

Source: Variety

Tags: 28 Days Later, aith, Alex Garland, Annihilation, Arrow in the head, Ex Machina, Horror, Jeff VanderMeer, Paramount, Sci-Fi, Thriller

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