Moving away from futuristic Blade Runner-like propositions, Annihilation takes viewers to Area X, where an expedition of scientists, including Lena (Natalie Portman), observes strange occurrences. The latter volunteered to find out what happened to her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac), a soldier who returned from a previous expedition with severe psychological and physical consequences.
Lena and her colleagues will also encounter Zone X and the Mysteries. Each of them suffers from the effects of the mutations of the territory invaded by an alien force that changes the different species…
The fate of Alex Garland’s work was quite disturbed. After the brilliance of his first solo production in 2014 with the excellent Ex Machina, he is back in 2018. DestructionA great melancholic sci-fi movie where nature takes back its rights over humans.
Paramount Studios, which produced the film, found it too complicated and asked the director to make Natalie Portman’s character more sympathetic and change the ending of her film. The producer, Scott Rudin, backed Alex Garland against David Ellison, a financier at Paramount, which was then undergoing a change of direction.
However, a solution was found: the film will remain as it is, and Paramount will take care of the theatrical release in the US and China. An agreement was signed with Netflix on the American platform to broadcast the film to the rest of the world 17 days after the official American release.
A release that tiptoed into Uncle Sam’s Country: Barely 2,000+ Screens… Made for $55 million (although other sources cite a budget of $40 million), Destruction Income is only 43 million. In other words, a severe slap at the international box office.
Adaptation of the first part of the literary trilogy written by the author Jeff Vandermeer and called The Southern Reach Trilogy, Destruction follows Authority dad’reception; Three stories were published a few months apart in 2014. Paramount had optioned the literary saga the previous year to turn it into a trilogy. which was not the case.
In Garland’s comments, the site reported IndieWire in 2018At the time of the release of the film, the filmmaker even deleted the idea of \u200b\u200bthis possible sequel itself. “I don’t have a problem with someone leading them, but I’m not interested in the idea of continuing.”
As soon as I finish something, I instantly move on; So I have no opinion on the Annihilation sequel. From the beginning, I made it clear to everyone, from the studio to the cast, that I wasn’t looking at it as part of a franchise. My goal was to make this film and do what I can.”
And to bring a little more to the point: “I don’t care about sequels. It’s like, when you don’t like meat, you don’t decide not to eat meat, you just don’t eat meat. I don’t do sequels.” So close the ban.
So what remains is this intelligent and unique work that moves between horror and philosophy, discovered on Netflix.
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