{"id":14937,"date":"2017-05-31T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=14937"},"modified":"2017-05-31T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T16:45:47","slug":"annihilation-author-raves-about-the-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/annihilation-author-raves-about-the-film\/","title":{"rendered":"“Annihilation” Author Raves About The Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Amongst the most anticipated films on the way is \u201cEx Machina\u201d writer\/director Alex Garland\u2019s new film \u201cAnnihilation,\u201d an adaptation of Jeff Vandermeer\u2019s intriguing novel.<\/p>\n

Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez play four women sent into the mysterious \u2018Area X,\u2019 a portion of land in the United States that has been quarantined due to abnormal activity.<\/p>\n

The quartet marks the twelfth expedition sent into Area X, all the previous ones have died or disappeared. Oscar Isaac also stars in the film which is still in post-production and Vandermeer revealed recently on The Watch podcast that he\u2019d seen am early version of the film and it\u2019s quite different to the novel:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first thing I realized is that even though Alex Garland says he\u2019s not an auteur, he is an auteur. So my expectation was to not have anything to do with the movie and that\u2019s the actual fact.<\/p>\n

He wrote the script and he was kind enough to keep me in the loop during every part of the process, but that wasn\u2019t for me to put my two cents in, basically. It was just so I would know what was going on.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s actually more surreal than the novel. There are a couple places where I was like, \u2018I might need an anchor here.\u2019 The ending is so mind-blowing and in some ways different from the book that it seems to be the kind of ending that, like 2001 or something like that, people will be talking about around the watercooler for years\u2026 Visually, it\u2019s amazing. I must say that and that\u2019s all I probably should say.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Separately he\u2019s since labelled the film \u201cmind-blowing, surreal, extremely beautiful, extremely horrific, and tense\u201d. At last report, Paramount had this scheduled for sometime in early 2018, but some are still holding out hope it might make it for year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Source: “Annihilation” Author Raves About The Film – Dark Horizons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amongst the most anticipated films on the way is \u201cEx Machina\u201d writer\/director Alex Garland\u2019s new film \u201cAnnihilation,\u201d an adaptation of Jeff Vandermeer\u2019s intriguing novel. Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson and Gina Rodriguez play four women sent into the mysterious \u2018Area X,\u2019 a portion of land in the United States that has been quarantined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-3SV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4617,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/comic-con-alex-proyas-to-adapt-joe-golem-and-the-drowning-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":14937,"position":0},"title":"Comic-Con — Alex Proyas To Adapt ‘Joe Golem And The Drowning City’","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"July 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Constantin Film has acquired Joe Golem And The Drowning City, a graphic novel by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. 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