Tag: Annihilation
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Annihilation: How the Core Characters Represent the Five Stages of Grief
Adapting the first novel of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, Oscar Isaac, and Tessa Thompson, brings a closer visual and narrative look to its source material in a few respects. In the original novel, an expedition team investigates a strange ecological location known as Area X. Previous excursions have provided nearly…
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Alex Garland Knows He’s Made the Most Inscrutable Movie of His Career with ‘Men’
Alex Garland’s latest mind-spinner is a movie called “Men,” about a woman being terrorized by one man who appears to represent all men, and it’s, of course, written and directed by a man.Garland, ever the boldly-going screenwriter of films like “The Beach” and “28 Days Later” and director of decidedly uncommercial visions like “Annihilation” and…
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Devs’ Complexity Comes From One Seemingly Simple Question
This article contains spoilers for a major plot point in “Devs.”As a filmmaker, Alex Garland has shown himself adept at tackling profound questions while maneuvering between science fiction and horror, sometimes within the same movie. You can see it carried forward from his early screenwriting projects like “28 Days Later” and “Sunshine,” to later directorial…
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Wagner Moura Teases Alex Garland’s A24 Action Movie Civil War [Exclusive]
Alex Garland’s works are stunning, both visually and emotionally. If you’ve seen films like “Ex Machina” or “Annihilation,” or his series “Devs,” you know this. Or maybe you’ve watched “Never Let Me Go,” which he wrote, and broke down sobbing the way I did. He’s one of those filmmakers that gut punch you with stories…
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How The Horrifying Annihilation Bear Creature Came To Life
Although it flopped at the box office, Alex Garland’s 2018 sci-fi epic “Annihilation” prevails as one of the most inventive (and down-right bone-chilling) genre films of the past five years. Making only $43 million against its $45-55 million budget, “Annihilation” could have simply faded into obscurity — but instead it became a beloved cult classic,…
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‘Shogun’ Limited Series Cast Adds Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis
The FX limited series based on James Clavell’s Shogun has added Hiroyuki Sanada and Cosmo Jarvis to its cast. Sanada just appeared in both Mortal Kombat and Army of the Dead, while Jarvis’s credits include Annihilation and Calm With Horses. The story is “set in feudal Japan and charts the collision of two ambitious men…
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‘The Shadow Of Violence’ Trailer: Barry Keoghan & Cosmo Jarvis Star In This Crime Drama From Last Year’s TIFF
Cosmo Jarvis is an English actor that has yet to fully break out in a big way, despite appearing in a number of high-profile projects such as “Peaky Blinders,” “Annihilation,” and the acclaimed drama, “Farming.” But perhaps all he needs is to star opposite Barry Keoghan in the upcoming “The Shadow of Violence” to attract…
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Alex Garland’s Next Project Won’t Be Sci-Fi, but He Wants His ‘Devs’ Cast to Star
Alex Garland’s FX on Hulu series “Devs” has just launched on the new platform, with the first two episodes of the science-fiction miniseries now available to stream. The “Ex Machina” and “Annihilation” filmmaker, directing on the small screen for the first time, conjures a dystopian vision of the hubris of Silicon Valley, simmering with atmosphere…
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‘Borne’ TV Series, Based on Novels by ‘Annihilation’ Writer Jeff VanderMeer, Coming to AMC
Jeff VanderMeer’s novel Annihilation was adapted into an Alex Garland feature film that captivated critics but was largely ignored by major audiences. But perhaps his work will achieve greater success on the small screen. AMC is developing a TV series based on the Borne novels by the Annihilation writer, following a “scavenger in a ruined…
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AMC To Develop A Series Based On Post-Apocalyptic ‘Borne’ Novels From The Author Behind ‘Annihilation’
While “Annihilation” might not have been the movie that launched a new film franchise based on the novels by author Jeff VanderMeer, it appears that AMC is looking at another VanderMeer novel series as inspiration for a new franchise — “Borne.”According to Deadline, AMC has landed the TV rights to VanderMeer’s novels “Borne,” “The Strange…