Justin Cook reviews the first season of Alex Garland’s Devs… “Life is just something we watch unfold. Like pictures on a screen,” says one character in FX’s first Hulu-exclusive show Devs. With his first foray into television, series creator Alex Garland grapples with the idea that nothing in our universe is random — every single […]
Alex Garland has no interest in returning to the world of Dredd
Although he was officially credited as writer and producer, Ex Machina and Annihilation’s Alex Garland was heavily involved with production on 2012’s 2000 AD adaptation Dredd and took over the editing process after creative differences with credited director Pete Travis. His involvement was so significant in fact that actor Karl Urban stated last year that “a huge […]
Alex Garland talks the “spectacular” collaboration of FX’s Devs, bringing back same cast for more
Stressed by everyone from the cast of FX’s Devs to the creator Alex Garland, during both the panel and press room at New York Comic Con, was the spirit of collaboration on set — a collaboration so fruitful that the Ex Machina and Annihilation director still thinks there are more stories to tell with the […]
Alex Garland introduces new FX series Devs, gives beautiful answer about show’s meaning
“What am I actually doing here?” asks Karl Glusman’s Sergei, who is questioning the nature of his job in the Devs division, in the exclusive footage shown at the New York Comic Con panel for FX’s Devs. “Just sit, read code, take your time and don’t worry. You’re gonna figure it out,” Nick Offerman’s Forest […]
Alex Garland’s Devs gets a first teaser trailer and new images
The first teaser trailer has been released for creator Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina, Annihilation) new sci-fi thriller limited series Devs, along with three new images featuring Sonoya Mizuno and Nick Offerman; check them out here… In ‘Devs,’ a young computer engineer, Lily Chan, investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company […]
First image from Alex Garland’s Devs featuring Sonoya Mizuno
FX has released the first image from Devs, the upcoming limited series from Ex Machina and Annihilation director Alex Garland, which features actress Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina) who stars as Lily Chan, a young computer engineer who investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she […]
Danny Boyle has a “wonderful idea” for another 28 Days Later sequel
Danny Boyle has been doing a lot of talking on the current press tour for his bootleg Beatles musical comedy Yesterday (read our ★★★★ review here). This time though, it isn’t about his revoked licence to kill, but the future of his 2002 non-zombie classic 28 Days Later. Speaking to The Independent, Boyle revealed that […]
FX gives green light to Alex Garland series Devs
Back in March it was announced that FX had ordered a pilot for Devs, a drama from Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), and now comes word that the cable network has granted the project an eight-episode limited series order and put it on the fast track. Devs will reunite Garland with Ex Machina’s Sonoya Mizuno, […]
Alex Garland is “not interested” in making an Annihilation sequel
Director Alex Garland has often spoken of his disdain for sequels and it seems that his hit sci-fi Annihilation is not going to be the exception to the rule. In an interview to promote the film’s DVD release, Garland told IndieWire that he has no plans to adapt the other books in Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Southern […]
TriStar lands Alex Garland script The Toymaker’s Secret
Variety is reporting that TriStar Pictures has snapped up the rights to The Toymaker’s Secret, a hot spec script from Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Annihilation), and has tapped BAFTA and Annie Award-winner Paloma Baeza (Poles Apart) to direct as her feature debut. Animated a a family audience, The Toymaker’s Secret “tells the story of an […]
