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Paramount has set a release date for Ex Machina writer - director Alex Garland's next film, Annihilation: February 23rd, 2018.

Author Jeff VanderMeer says to expect great things from Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland's upcoming movie adaptation of VanderMeer's novel, Annihilation.

Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland is returning to the sci - fi genre in 2018, with a movie that promises to be equal parts thought - provoking and creepy.

Annihilation, the upcoming movie from Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland, stars Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Natalie Portman, and Oscar Isaac.

Paramount Pictures has released a new Annihilation TV spot, unveiling new footage from the highly anticipated new film from Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland.

This heavy sci - fi piece from Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland stars Natalie Portman as an ex-military scientist who leads an all - female mission into an environmental disaster zone in order to try to uncover what happened to the all male team that preceded them.

Annihilation Rated R for violence, bloody images, language and some sexuality Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86 % In Theaters This heavy sci - fi piece from Ex Machina writer / director Alex Garland stars Natalie Portman as an ex-military scientist who leads an all - female mission into an environmental disaster zone in order to try to uncover what happened to the all male team that preceded them.

Ex Machina writer - director Alex Garland's unnerving sci - fi concoction combines gut - wrenching body horror and trippy science to compelling effect

Whatever the working balance is between mystery and revelation, Annihilation, the new sci - fi — horror drama from Ex Machina writer - director Alex Garland, never quite pulls it off.

Not exact matches

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

There are allegories in play here, but nothing as potent or easy to sink your teeth into as there was in Isaac's previous collaboration with writer / director Alex Garland, «Ex Machina.»

In his 2014 speculative thriller «Ex Machina,» writer - director Alex Garland created a haunting, stylishly atmospheric meditation on what it means to be human, building a credible world just this shy of the future in which humanoid robots moved, loved and deceived with all the nuance and subterfuge of their flesh - and - bone counterparts.

It comes from writer - director Alex Garland, whose previous film, «Ex Machina» (2015), was unusually effective speculative fiction involving artificial intelligence and Oscar Issac's dance moves.

And by giving away so many details about the ending up front, writer - director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) seems to be emphasizing that Annihilation isn't about who - will - live dynamics, or the fast mechanics of action scenes.

Annihilation Natalie Portman plays a biologist who joins an all - female expedition into the heart of an environmental disaster zone in this eerily beautiful and hypnotically unsettling mind - bender from «Ex Machina» writer - director Alex Garland.

Writer / director Alex Garland set a high bar for himself with Ex Machina, his stellar 2015 directorial debut.

These flashbacks are where writer - director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) leans on Stalker and Solaris, both of which eerily wed the cosmic and the personal, connecting its characters corporeal explorations to the uncharted territory in their heads.

If you ask Alex Garland, writer and director of «Ex Machina,» if his goal was to make the film a «game changer» for the genre, he would probably say, «Hell, no.»

Such was the fate of Annihilation, a science - fiction horror from writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina), based on the first part of Jeff VanderMeer's bestselling Southern Reach

Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, Ex Machina.

With Ex Machina, Alex Garland shows that he's just as talented as a director as he is a writer, and that he should definitely keep challenging the science fiction genre.

Four years ago, writer Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a critical smash that surprised with two Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Visual Effects and further surprised by winning the Visual Effects prize.

Incredibly loosely based on Jeff Vandermeer's novel, writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has taken several of the source material's enduring images and built a film around them.

Ex Machina is written and directed by Alex Garland (writer of Dredd, Sunshine, 28 Days Later).

Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, having carved out an impressive career as a writer with films including 28 Days Later, Dredd and Never Let Me Go.

With artificial intelligence thriller Ex Machina proving a big success at the box office both here and across the pond, writer / director Alex Garland has plenty of momentum for whatever he wants to make next.

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«Ex Machina» marks the directing debut of British writer Alex Garland, who wrote the Danny Boyle films «28 Days Later» and «Sunshine» and — at age 26 — wrote the novel that was the basis of Boyle's film «The Beach.»

«Ex Machina» is the directing debut of writer Alex Garland, who burst onto the cinematic scene in 2000 with Danny Boyle's adaptation of his novel «The Beach».

Topping seven of our writers» individual lists and featuring in the top ten of another eleven, Ex Machina led the field by some distance, and is Flickering Myth's best movie of 2015.

The main new bonus feature is Deus Ex Machina: The Philosophy of Donnie Darko, an 85 - minute making - of piece that features interviews with writer / director Richard Kelly, producer Sean McKittrick, cinematographer Steven B. Poster, editor Sam Bauer, and others.

I wrote in my review of the film: «With Ex Machina, Alex Garland shows that he's just as talented as a director as he is a writer, and that he should definitely keep challenging the science fiction genre.

But no one will confuse this tense drama with Weird Science — Ex Machina, which marks the directorial debut of 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland, is an unnerving meditation on the ethics of artificial intelligence, the ever - growing power of Silicon Valley (Isaac plays the reclusive founder of a search - engine company), the nature of human desire and more.

With this, Alex [Garland, Ex Machina's writer and director,] did say, «I see him with a beard.»

Anyone who feared that the writer's directorial debut would abandon the cerebral, doughty fare of his previously - penned Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and roughly 15 minutes of 2011's Dredd need not have worried — more than any of Garland's previous efforts, Ex Machina weighs the heavier side of science fiction and what it means to be human.

Writer and director Alex Garland, who previously delivered the underrated masterpiece Ex Machina, struggles to find the right balance between the thought - provoking themes he's peppered into his script and the jarringly out of place horror elements.

The writer - director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has constructed a dreamlike, phosphorescent world, the result of a genetic alien mutation...

Annihilation looks like it has a lot going for it: Killer art direction and special effects; acclaimed writer - director Alex Garland (Ex Machina); and an all - star cast that includes Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, and Gina Rodriguez.

I haven't read any of the books in author Jeff VanderMeer's award - winning «Southern Reach Trilogy,» of which Annihilation is the first installment, but from what I understand writer / director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) has reworked the material considerably as far as the script for his feature adaptation is concerned.

A sci - fi thriller from the writer and director of Ex Machina, Annihilation already arrives with a hefty amount of expectation.

And to that extent, writer - director Alex Garland's ominous take on A.I., Ex Machina is just that.

Alex Garland, the writer of 28 Days Layer and Sunshine, could have delivered one of the finest directorial debuts in years with Ex Machina - a stylish new thriller featuring the talents of Domhnall Gleeson.

«Annihilation» is writer / director Alex Garland's follow - up to 2015's fascinating, visionary Oscar - winning drama «Ex Machina».

It is the second feature from writer / director Alex Garland, whose Ex Machina was one of the best films of 2015, and everyone in Hollywood is interested to see if he can live up to the hype.

Hotly anticipated for months, writer and director Alex Garland's follow - up to his incredibly well received Ex Machina, was dumped by its studio, Paramount, outside of North America and China, leaving it to be picked up by Netflix.

Annihilation by George Wolf Alex Garland's work as both a writer (28 Days Later..., Sunshine, Never Let Me Go) and a writer / director (Ex Machina) has shown a visionary talent for... read more →

OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER Alex Garland (Director) «Ex Machina» < — predicted winner, Stone, Flores Debbie Tucker Green (Writer / Director) «Second Coming» Naji Abu Nowar (Writer / Director) Rupert Lloyd (Producer) «Theeb» — Alt, Stone Sean Mcallister (Director / Producer), Elhum Shakerifar (Producer) «A Syrian Love Story» Stephen Fingleton (Writer / Director) «The Survivalist&WRITER, DIRECTOR OR PRODUCER Alex Garland (Director) «Ex Machina» < — predicted winner, Stone, Flores Debbie Tucker Green (Writer / Director) «Second Coming» Naji Abu Nowar (Writer / Director) Rupert Lloyd (Producer) «Theeb» — Alt, Stone Sean Mcallister (Director / Producer), Elhum Shakerifar (Producer) «A Syrian Love Story» Stephen Fingleton (Writer / Director) «The Survivalist&Writer / Director) «Second Coming» Naji Abu Nowar (Writer / Director) Rupert Lloyd (Producer) «Theeb» — Alt, Stone Sean Mcallister (Director / Producer), Elhum Shakerifar (Producer) «A Syrian Love Story» Stephen Fingleton (Writer / Director) «The Survivalist&Writer / Director) Rupert Lloyd (Producer) «Theeb» — Alt, Stone Sean Mcallister (Director / Producer), Elhum Shakerifar (Producer) «A Syrian Love Story» Stephen Fingleton (Writer / Director) «The Survivalist&Writer / Director) «The Survivalist»

Oscar Isaac is set to join writer / director Alex Garland in Annihilation, the follow up his Oscar - winning Ex Machina.

Or perhaps you want your science fiction (yes, Black Panther is still sci - fi) a little harder and deeper; look no further than Annihilation, the latest from writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez (some strong female greats), and Oscar Isaac.

The winner was Brian K. Vaughan writer of Runaways, Ex Machina and Y the Last Man.