“Broadly speaking,” Garland told The Times of the changes Ellison requested, “he said the last third was too weird.
The dance sequence is fundamental, so to make it into, literally, a punch-up would strip out all meaning.”
“I don’t want to paint it that the studio were the textbook bad guys, because it wasn’t like that.
He doesn’t particularly blame Paramount however, Annihilation’s disappointing distribution perhaps owing more to the increasing challenge mid-budget films face in cinemas.