After an excellent directorial
debut with the character driven sci-fi Ex_Machina, Alex Garland (28 Days Later,
Sunshine, Dredd) is ready to tackle his next project, the adaptation of Jeff
VanderMeer's sci-fi novel, Annihilation.
According to Variety,
Academy Award winning actress Natalie Portman (Black Swan) is in talk to play one
of the four the lead roles in what is described as an environmental-sci-fi-horror-thriller
that sees an expedition solely composed of women into the mysterious Area X, a
area of the United States that has been secretly quarantined due to some anomalous
activity.
The news outlet also
reports that Julianne Moore, and Tilda Swinton are eyeing one other role, but Paramount
won't consider anyone else before Portman signs on to the project as the
biologist (the characters are called by their professions).
Area X has been cut
off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last
vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a
pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in
mass suicide, the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members
turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as
shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer.
In Annihilation,
the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy, we join the
twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one anotioner, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
Source - Variety
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