It a
shame that Alex Garland's outstanding sci-fi drama Ex Machina came out early
in the year diminishing its changes of getting some sort of award accolades,
but let us look into the future with anticipation as Garland is setting up a
very intriguing project, the adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's environmental
horror novel, Annihilation, which so far stars Natalie Portman.
According
to The Wrap, Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez has entered negotiations to
star alongside Portman in the all-female project, which follows an expedition
of four women to Area X, a patch of land
in the U.S. that has been secretly quarantined due to some anomalies. Their
mission is to map the terrain, record their findings, and above all survive the
area, which already claimed the lives of countless other scientists in the
eleventh previous expeditions. 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.
Like Rodriguez, The
Wrap also says that Frances McDormand is eyeing
a role in the film, though they don't know what character exactly.
Annihilation is the first volume in VanderMeer’s Southern
Reach trilogy.
Source - The Wrap
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