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[Atrophis]

It looks perfect. Absolutetly perfect. I am so hyped it's ridiculous.

Also, so much hate for the other books makes me sad. Authority has one of the best sequences of horror you will read anywhere and the rest is a beautifully executed Kafkaesque paranoid nightmare.

 

[hydruxo]

Ahhh those visuals look incredible. Amazing director and cast too. This is one of my most anticipated movies now.

 

[Aporia88]

I saw this at a test screening earlier this year. It was completely batshit and I loved (almost) every second. I was a little worried they would butcher it to appeal to the masses based on the feedback, but am glad to see that doesn't look to be the case.

 

[hateradio]

Reminds me of The Happening. I still can't believe that was the real name for a movie.

 

[Truant]

Reminds me of The Happening. I still can't believe that was the real name for a movie.

It's nothing like that film. It's more Lovecraftian (or Roadside Picnic-ish) in that we're dealing with something that's completely beyond human understanding.

 

[Cyan]

Looking damn good. They emphasize exactly the things you'd expect them to in the trailer, but the visuals are nice and I have faith they'll do a good job capturing the book.

 

[Messofanego]

The books largely center around psychological terror, confusion and how they intersect with wonder. So that helps.

Awesome. Hope that translates to the screen.

I saw this at a test screening earlier this year. It was completely batshit and I loved (almost) every second. I was a little worried they would butcher it to appeal to the masses based on the feedback, but am glad to see that doesn't look to be the case.

Even better to hear!

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

The plot summary does not make this sound interesting at all.

 

[hendersonhank]

Looks cool, but also looks very low budget.

 

[GhaleonEB]

Gonnat go to this one totally blind. I'm on board due to Garland alone, much less the cast.

 

[Cyan]

The plot summary does not make this sound interesting at all.

Hehehe

 

[More_Badass]

I saw this at a test screening earlier this year. It was completely batshit and I loved (almost) every second. I was a little worried they would butcher it to appeal to the masses based on the feedback, but am glad to see that doesn't look to be the case.

This is good. This is very good.

 

[Haly]

I see Cyan has summoned the mods rangers.

 

[HStallion]

The plot summary does not make this sound interesting at all.

Its not what I'd call a very plot heavy focused story based on the book.

 

[UrbanRats]

ExMachina wad alright, this looks visually interesting but im not really sold yet, and the comparison with Arrival will probably be inevitable.

Will wait for impressions.

 

[More_Badass]

ExMachina wad alright, this looks visually interesting but im not really sold yet, and the comparison with Arrival will probably be inevitable.

Will wait for impressions.

In the sense of being an unorthodox sci-fi movie, yes, but Arrival and Annihilation are very different stories

Annihilation is grounded first contact. Annihilation is weird psychological cosmic bio-horror

 

[UnemployedVillain]

ExMachina wad alright, this looks visually interesting but im not really sold yet, and the comparison with Arrival will probably be inevitable.

Will wait for impressions.

They share nothing in common whatsoever whatsoever. Okay, the protagonists in both are women. That's about it

 

[Figgles]

Everything about that made me think of Arrival.

 

[El Topo]

I saw this at a test screening earlier this year. It was completely batshit and I loved (almost) every second. I was a little worried they would butcher it to appeal to the masses based on the feedback, but am glad to see that doesn't look to be the case.

Must. Not. Get. Hyped. Too. Much.

 

[Timeaisis]

First book, yes

Sweet, need to finish that trilogy off sometime. I feel like some of this was not in book 1.

 

[sasliquid]

Given how good this could be and that we are apparently getting a good Blade Runner sequel I think this may be best we've had for scifi films since the 1980s

 

[John Rabbit]

Sweet, need to finish that trilogy off sometime. I feel like some of this was not in book 1.

Some of those scenes definitely occur in the second book.

 

[MoonsaultSlayer]

Great director and one of the best modern weird science/science fiction authors out there.

I'd kill for an adaptation of Finch, that book was amazingly good/unsettling.

Holy shit. You mention Finch and I had to search to see if that was the same book that Murder by Death wrote a soundtrack for (commissioned by the author) and IT IS!

Wow, here I am debating whether I check out these books before the movie and you bring up another novel connected to a band I absolutely love. Well, I can buy that then (and the series it's from?) while I decide if I want to go into the Annihilation movie blind.

Thanks!

To be honest, the only reason I never checked out the novel was because I thought it was just some hack piggy-backing off of MBD or something haha. Never judge a book by its soundtrack I guess... (Not meaning the quality of songs, just the idea of it lol)

 

[Ashodin]

Alright I'm in on this.

 

[Nappuccino]

Holy shit. You mention Finch and I had to search to see if that was the same book that Murder by Death wrote a soundtrack for (commissioned by the author) and IT IS!

Wow, here I am debating whether I check out these books before the movie and you bring up another novel connected to a band I absolutely love. Well, I can buy that then (and the series it's from?) while I decide if I want to go into the Annihilation movie blind.

Thanks!

To be honest, the only reason I never checked out the novel was because I thought it was just some hack piggy-backing off of MBD or something haha. Never judge a book by its soundtrack I guess... (Not meaning the quality of songs, just the idea of it lol)

Jeff VanDermeer has written some great books. Annihilation is one. But the rest of the trilogy is generally not held to the highest regard. I like Authority well enough, but I've yet to even finish the last book.

Anyway, you should totally check out City of Saints and Madmen. That may still be my favorite of his.

 

[- J - D -]

Hope this is better than Ex Machina. It looks beautiful. Portman is going haggard for this, looks like. Compare her in Jackie to in this. I dig it.

 

[The Kree]

Hollywood has been spoiling us with sci-fi for the past ten years. I hope it never ends.

 

[squidyj]

My cousin was complaining about working on the CG for this movie. Looks like they finally got it tho.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Don't know if I want to watch. Might just ignore this till it comes out. LOVED the book and I'm really excited for this, love the cast and director too.

Looks interesting. According to a source I know, it's much different then the trailer would let you on to be. Paramount's selling it as an Arrival type film, when it's really nothing like that.

The February release dates makes me doubt its quality, but with Garland involved and the cast, I'm sold.

I mean the book is nothing like that so.

 

[Wollan]

Authority has one of the best sequences of horror you will read anywhere and the rest is a beautifully executed Kafkaesque paranoid nightmare.

Probably the strongest chill I've received reading came from the second book.

 

[SomedayTheFire]

I saw this at a test screening earlier this year. It was completely batshit and I loved (almost) every second. I was a little worried they would butcher it to appeal to the masses based on the feedback, but am glad to see that doesn't look to be the case.

Oh shit..

 

[More_Badass]

Hollywood has been spoiling us with sci-fi for the past ten years. I hope it never ends.

Don’t forget Duncan Jones is also working on Mute

 

[The Kree]

Don’t forget Duncan Jones is also working on Mute

Oh I know.

 

[Frozenprince]

It will certainly pose a lot of questions...

I can handle not being explained everything, you should always leave a bit of mystery and unknowing.

But god damn would I have killed for even a tertiary explanation of something.

A movie that's 2 hours of questions and 15 minutes of ¯\_(&#12484_/¯ just isn't for me.

 

[Hands of Stone]

Benedict Wong being in Prey and this is super cool.

 

[More_Badass]

I can handle not being explained everything, you should always leave a bit of mystery and unknowing.

But god damn would I have killed for even a tertiary explanation of something.

A movie that's 2 hours of questions and 15 minutes of ¯_(&#12484_/¯ just isn't for me.

Depending on the story, isn’t getting an explanation kind of antithetical to the underlying point of the science fiction? Consider some cosmic horror or many of the stories by Stanislaw Lem like Solaris or His Master’s Voice. The whole point is that we are can’t comprehend or understand, thus there are no answers. Or at least answers we as humans can grasp. Considering Lem’s Eden and Vandermeer’s Annihilation are pretty thematically similar (even down to the characters labelled by their roles rather than names), I wouldn’t expect answers or explanations

 

[Metalmarc]

Seeing Portman with a gun is super weird.

Huh?

 

[HStallion]

Depending on the story, isn’t getting an explanation kind of antithetical to the underlying point of the science fiction? Consider some cosmic horror or many of the stories by Stanislaw Lem like Solaris or His Master’s Voice. The whole point is that we are can’t comprehend or understand, thus there are no answers. Or at least answers we as humans can grasp. Considering Lem’s Eden and Vandermeer’s Annihilation are pretty thematically similar (even down to the characters labelled by their roles rather than names), I wouldn’t expect answers or explanations

I hold the books in pretty low regard myself and not answering the multitude of questions posed was one of the least of its issues. I hope the movie is just the general premise and totally reworked.

 

[Aporia88]

My cousin was complaining about working on the CG for this movie. Looks like they finally got it tho.

That doesn't surprise me. The CGI was the only thing that wasn't completely finished and I thought that one scene in particular looked like it would be hell to try to depict what they were going for in a compelling way. Also might explain why it took so long to get a release date.

 

[jett]

Not really sure about this. Seems like the CGI needed a higher budget.

 

[SilentSoldier]

This looks like it could be pretty awesome. Lol at people who were disappointed it wasn't Marvel related.

Lol, but real talk, an adaptation of the Marvel Annihilation comic would be fantastic. Although I think some of the characters are tied to Fantastic Four right? Either way, I'm intrigued about this movie

 

[TTG]

This movie covers the first book, not the entire trilogy, right?

Portman's cheeks are all wobbly when she's going pew pew pew.

 

[RedSwirl]

Wow. Didn't realize they were dropping Natelie Portman into The Zone.

 

[Experien]

I want to like this but the (first) book was SO awful, like couldn't form sentences awful. It is a trilogy so when I finished the first book, I knew I couldn't read the 2nd one so I googled the ending and

Spoiler

they don't answer a thing. There is no answers, like Lindeloff level of nothing.

I am pretty sure that is spoilers so I'll tag it anyways.

I just am not sure why this is being made into a movie outside of young adult. Is it because it is supposed to be an all female cast?

 

[Zzoram]

Looks interesting. Not a fan of Natalie Portman aiming guns though, doesn't seem to suit her.

 

[duckroll]

It looks nothing at all what I expect from an adaptation of the book, but it looks exactly what I expect from an Alex Garland movie. So... feels kinda weird. Will probably be good. Dunno.

I want to like this but the (first) book was SO awful, like couldn't form sentences awful. It is a trilogy so when I finished the first book, I knew I couldn't read the 2nd one so I googled the ending and

Spoiler

they don't answer a thing. There is no answers, like Lindeloff level of nothing.

I am pretty sure that is spoilers so I'll tag it anyways.

I just am not sure why this is being made into a movie outside of young adult. Is it because it is supposed to be an all female cast?

Lmao.

 

[More_Badass]

Because weird psychological cosmic bio-horror from the writer of 28 Days Later, Sunshine, Dredd, and Ex Machina is an exciting prospect

 

[Qvoth]

is it the make up or does natalie portman look really old now? wtf? is she alright?

 

[Kaban]

Looks great, but the trailer was weirdly edited. When Portman's character says "I could save him" at the end, it's liked the editor spliced 4 different lines together.

 

[John Rabbit]

Looks interesting. Not a fan of Natalie Portman aiming guns though, doesn't seem to suit her.

It doesn't really fit the character she plays either (who does have a gun in the book), so hopefully it works in that regard.