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Alex Garland’s Devs gets a first teaser trailer and new images

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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

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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

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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 […]

Alex Garland is “not interested” in making an Annihilation sequel

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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

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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 […]

Alex Garland’s sci-fi Annihilation heading straight to Netflix in the UK

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Director Alex Garland’s upcoming sci-fi Annihilation, starring Natalie Portman, is set to be released straight to Netflix in the UK and other territories outside North America and China. The film, which is Garland’s highly anticipated follow-up to his Oscar-winning debut Ex Machina, is due for its US release on February 23 and will now arrive […]

First trailer for Alex Garland’s Annihilation

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Paramount has released the first trailer for their upcoming sci-fi/horror film Annihilation. Directed by Ex-Machina‘s Alex Garland, the film is adapted from the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy and stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac. Watch the trailer below…. The synopsis for the book reads: […]

The directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade

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Tom Jolliffe on the directors who can take cinema forward over the next decade… There’s a cinematic crossroads on the horizon. As the market gets swallowed up by a core consumer taste leaning toward spandex and radioactive arachnid bites, there’s a need for modern thinking, engaging directors to offer something different. After all, there’s only […]

Alex Garland has signed a TV deal with FX

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Alex Garland, director of the acclaimed Ex Machina, has signed an overall television deal with FX Productions. Nominated for a Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Ex Machina back in 2016, Garland has added himself to the list of Hollywood’s most exciting writer/directors. Ex Machina was a sci-fi drama, Garland’s directorial debut, about artificial intelligence, starring […]