Alex Garland is an English filmmaker and novelist. His most famous work as a novelist is The Beach, which was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. While he continued to write, generating screenplays for a number of films in the early 2000s, Ex Machina is the first film he directed. He followed Ex Machina with Annihilation in 2018. His films often deal with futuristic and science-fiction scenarios.
Garland was born in London and began his career as a novelist. The Beach was published in 1996 and tells the story of a young English man who winds up embroiled in a strange secret beach community in Thailand. In 2002, Garland began writing for film, writing the script for Danny Boyle's zombie apocalypse film, 28 Days Later. He also wrote the screenplays for Sunshine, 28 Weeks Later, Never Let Me Go, Dredd, and Big Game.
Ex Machina was Garland's directorial debut and the film received critical acclaim. He also wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2018, he adapted and directed Annihilation, which received good reviews.
In addition to his film work, Garland created the television show Devs, a miniseries that premiered on FX. He has also co-written a number of video games.
Director Alex Garland's mind-bending, intellectual sci-fi Annihilation released to controversy. Allegations of whitewashing and studio meddling plagued the film, yet it was a massive critical success -- but did dismally financially.
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Ex Machina is a science-fiction thriller from 2014, written and directed by Alex Garland, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, and Sonoya Mizuno. It tells the story of a young coder at a large tech company who is invited to...
