Alex Garland’s Annihilation movie adaptation has begun screening for the press and the first wave of reactions to the film are extremely positive.
Based on the first wave of social media reactions, Annihilation is very much cut from the same cloth as Ex Machina and Garland’s previous work as a screenwriter, in the best way possible.
VanderMeer has already praised Garland’s Annihilation for being even “more surreal” than his source material and having what he has referred to as a “mind-blowing” ending – an ending that is likewise drawing praise in the first wave of social media reactions to the film.
In terms of plot, Annihilation revolves around a biologist (Natalie Portman) who sets out to investigate a mysterious environmental disaster area which radiates a strange phenomenon referred to as simply “The Shimmer”.