Annihilation
The first drone forAnnihilationhas come , tantalize the next sci - fi flick from writer - film director Alex Garland ( Ex Machina ) . Natalie Portman stars in this glossy adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer’sAnnihilationnovel , which is the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy . This series contains numerous view on the inscrutable ‘ Area decade ’ – a strange landscape painting of unknown origin , which hold the law of nature . The American government is desperate to understand Area X , but hopeless to decipher its enigma .
The celluloid look to be come the first book rather closely ( albeit with a bit more gunplay ) , as Portman ’s biologist fictional character enter Area X with a team of other experts ( played by Jennifer Jason Leigh , Gina Rodriguez , Tessa Thompson and Tuva Novotny ) . They ’ve all been beam in by the Southern Reach , a government agency , but Portman ’s life scientist has her own motif for joining the jaunt : to track down her married man ( Oscar Isaac ) , who went overlook on a previous military mission into Area X.
The promotional push for the picture has been heating up of tardy , with afirst - look imagearriving earlier in the hebdomad , showing Portman and a off-the-wall form of gator . The film’srelease engagement has been setfor February 2018 , and Garland has promise a “ mind - bluster ” terminate for this , his recent endeavor as a writer and director . And now , the firstAnnihilationtrailer has landed online , giving film fans their first proper idea of what to expect .
The trailer opens with an eerie score that matches VanderMeer ’s atmospherical committal to writing style from the rule book . Portman ’s biologist and her age bracket walk from the Southern Reach ’s headquarters to the border of Area X ; a translucent roadblock that nobody knows the origins of .
From that creepy-crawly beginning , the trailer showcases various rum snatch and bob from beyond the border : uncanny creatures , creepy-crawly tunnel , weird artwork on a rampart , Tree shaped like people , crystalized plant , and skeletal human remains in front of a pharos . To find out how all of that fits together , you ’ll just have to wait and watch the film . ( Or you could read the Book , of track . )
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