Tag: The Beach
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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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‘Annihilation’ Director Alex Garland Speaks Out on Screwing With Genre and Studio Panic Attacks
The brainy 47-year-old son of a British political cartoonist, Alex Garland made his name with novels “The Beach” and “The Tesseract” before moving on to a tortuous relationship with Hollywood. After Leonardo DiCaprio starred in Danny Boyle’s movie version of “The Beach” (Fox), Garland turned to screenwriting on two original grim visions of the future…
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‘The Beach’ is Getting a New Adaptation, Says Alex Garland
Alex Garland‘s new movie Annihilation is in theaters right now, but the filmmaker got his start as a writer when his debut novel The Beach was published in 1996. The book was adapted into a movie in 2000 starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and now Garland says that a new adaptation is in the works. Read on…
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Alex Garland Reveals Another Possible Adaptation of ‘The Beach’ Is in the Works
Alex Garland has become an exciting filmmaker in his own right with his directorial debut Ex Machina and his second film, the buzzworthy Annihilation, but Garland has been working as a writer for a long while. Garland first began as a novelist, and his first book was The Beach, which was adapted into a film…
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Alex Garland Confirms New Adaptation Of ‘The Beach’ In The Works
“The Beach” arrived at an interesting time for Danny Boyle and his star Leonardo DiCaprio. The director was still nursing the wounds after the poorly received “A Life Less Ordinary,” his followup to the breakout hit “Trainspotting.” As for the actor, he was still riding the global superstardom high following “Titanic,” and the project offered…