Annihilation (2018)

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

I mean, Ex Machina was a pretty early release as well. This is only 1.5 months earlier.

I meant for this year.

[Underworld54]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Interesting, isn't the new Cloverfield down for a similar date?

Feb 2nd for God Particle.

[jacobsever]

[Visionist]

Who is that levering the gator's mouth open?

[jacobsever]

Originally Posted by Visionist

Who is that levering the gator's mouth open?

Looks like Natalie Portman to me.

[Seymour]

Originally Posted by jacobsever

Looks like Natalie Portman to me.

Think he means the person holding the mouth open.

[mastadge]

Originally Posted by Visionist

Who is that levering the gator's mouth open?

Gina Rodriguez? Tuva Novotny? Sonoya Mizuno?

[AaronJ]

You had me at Natalie Portman.

[eightslicesofpie]

In the science fiction film Annihilation, Natalie Portman plays a scientist named Lena, who is part of an expedition tasked with exploring an area which has been taken over by a mysterious force. “[She] finds a very strange, dream-like, surrealist landscape, and goes deeper and deeper into that world, and also into that mindset,” says writer-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina). Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tuva Novotny, Gina Rodriguez, and Tessa Thompson costar as her fellow team members, while Oscar Isaac plays Portman’s husband.

One other character of note featured in the film? An alligator, as is revealed in EW’s exclusive first look photo, above. “It is their first tangible encounter with something strange,” says Garland. “The alligator has physical elements to it that should not belong on an alligator. They’re starting to get their heads around how weird the place is.”

Annihilation is based on Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel, the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy, which the author continued with Authority and then wrapped up with Acceptance. “I was in post-production on Ex Machina, and one of the producers of that film, Scott Rudin, called up and said, ‘I just acquired this book, I think it’s interesting and, would you take a look,'” says Garland, whose screenwriting credits also include Dredd and 28 Days Later. “I don’t finish books, or films, or anything, really, if it isn’t grabbing me for one reason. Well, I read it in a sitting. I found the atmosphere incredibly strong and I liked the kind of dream state that it created and put me in. It had all sorts of qualities that I found really interesting. I thought immediately, Yes, I’d like to try this.”

Isaac recently promised EW that Annihilation would be “very weird and very beautiful.” “That’s what we were shooting for,” says Garland. “The beauty part of it was quite important. Even when it’s grim, and something dark is happening, there’s quite an overt beauty, and we took pains to make sure that happened.”

Although the original book is part of a trilogy, Garland says he regards his film as a standalone movie. “I did once work on a film called Dredd, which I imagined to be the first part of a trilogy,” says Garland. “But it’s not something I like doing. I’d rather work on a story that I felt was self-contained rather than one that sort of had a ‘dot-dot-dot’ at the end. I think that provokes a sort of instant, understandable, cynicism. We sense the money grab and I feel that pollutes the story. So, right from the get-go, I did not think of this as being part of a trilogy; I thought of it as being just a single, self-contained movie. If other people wanted to do that, that would be fine. That’s none of my business. But from my point of view, it’s just one.”

Annihilation — a Paramount Pictures and Skydance presentation — is in theaters Feb. 23, 2018.

http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/26/anni...-alex-garland/

[Cremildo]

Originally Posted by mastadge

Gina Rodriguez? Tuva Novotny? Sonoya Mizuno?

Gina Rodriguez, she said so on Twitter.

[pikeman1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqqsxLoautE

[eightslicesofpie]

Looks dope. I read VanderMeer's new book from this year "Borne" and really liked it a lot, so I'm looking forward to this; might try to read the book before the movie's out

[MasterCrayola]

Originally Posted by pikeman1

[Show spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqqsxLoautE

Anyone else getting Arrival-ey vibes?

[don3663]

Looking great. Was hoping a trailer would drop soon.

[Rodney-2187]

This is going to be awesome!

[Cremildo]

I thought the first book was soporific, and this murky teaser doesn't really improve things one bit. Still, I hope Garland will deliver something worthwhile, though I'm not holding my breath. And to think this was one of my most anticipated movies...

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by MasterCrayola

Anyone else getting Arrival-ey vibes?

Yup, thought the very same thing when I saw the movie.

Teaser's kinda spoiler-y towards the end. I bought the book trilogy a few months ago but still haven't read it; should get on that soon.

[Martin_31]

Might read the book first. Loved Ex Machina and this one looks interesting.

[levcore]

Looks great, shame it's not in 3D.

[Heinz-Klett]

Want. Annihilation. Now.