Lovece, Frank (20 February 2018). "Unnatural Resource: Alex Garland and Natalie Portman probe the mysteries of 'Annihilation' ". Film Journal International. Archived from the original on 21 February 2018 . Retrieved 22 February 2018. Q. You were born in London, May 26, 1970? Correct? A. Yep, that's right. So I'm told. Detail. Spectacular. Fractal. The threads that constructed my shirt, and the smaller threads that constructed the larger threads. The shapes of the clouds above, the shapes that led to further shapes, and the slow movement of the clouds across the sky… Presented by my memory effortlessly, with no act of concentration. No pause to assemble or consider the image as my gaze swept from left to right, or up or down, or anywhere.”

Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a 2014 feature film based on his own story and screenplay. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac. the film won a Jury Prize at the 2015 Gerardmer Film Festival and earned Garland a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The atmosphere of the book reminded me of reading Kafka, that sense of shifting alienation. He agrees that it was exactly that mood that he was trying to generate. Annihilation' director Alex Garland chats with CNET about the upcoming film (YouTube). CNET. 8 February 2018. Event occurs at 14;40 . Retrieved 18 March 2018. His father's illustrations heighten the oddness. Garland was very keen to make the novel a collaborative effort, in part because he had enjoyed that experience when working on the screenplay for the film 28 Days later with Andrew Macdonald and Danny Boyle, who also directed the film of The Beach.The Coma isn't without its moments. A trip to a bookstore and a record shop are entertaining digressions that recall Garland's culturally attuned ear (and made The Beach a big hit). But with The Dark Tower's urban identity crisis hovering in recent memory (with text and literal illustrations to boot), these two moments feel lifted from Stephen King's muddled riffs.

Miller, Ross (14 July 2006). "DB Weiss takes on Halo script". Engadget. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020 . Retrieved 23 September 2022. It's a short read. It was always designed to be. I suspect it would not have worked had it been much longer. Those jumps in mental landscape get frustrating after a while. You need something to grip on to.' Kroll, Justin (29 April 2016). " 'Containment' Star Joins Natalie Portman in 'Annihilation' ". Variety . Retrieved 9 April 2017. Urban in Shirey, Paul (7 March 2018). "EXC: Karl Urban Says Alex Garland Directed Dredd & Updates on Reprising Role". JoBlo.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018 . Retrieved 8 March 2018. A huge part of the success of 'Dredd' is in fact due to Alex Garland and what a lot of people don't realize is that Alex Garland actually directed that movie. ... I just hope when people think of Alex Garland's filmography that 'Dredd' is the first film that he made before Ex Machina.In 2005, Garland wrote a screenplay for a film adaptation of Halo. [14] D. B. Weiss and Josh Olson rewrote this during 2006 for a 2008 release, [15] [16] although the film was later canceled. [16] In 2007, he wrote the screenplay for the film Sunshine, which was his second screenplay to be directed by Danny Boyle and to star Cillian Murphy. Garland served as an executive producer on 28 Weeks Later, the sequel of 28 Days Later. He wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. He also wrote the script for Dredd, an adaptation of the Judge Dredd comic book series from 2000 AD. In 2018, Karl Urban, who played the eponymous role in the film, stated that it was Garland who deserved credit for also directing Dredd. [17]