1. Alex Garland rose to prominence with his novel The Beach.
28 Facts About Alex Garland
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Alex Garland received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later and Sunshine, as well as Never Let Me Go and Dredd.
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Alex Garland earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and won him three British Independent Film Awards, including Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best British Independent Film for the film.
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Alex Garland's second movie, Annihilation, an adaptation of the 2014 novel of the same name, was a critical success.
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Alex Garland wrote, directed and executive produced the FX miniseries Devs followed by the horror thriller Men, and the dystopian action thriller Civil War.
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Alexander Medawar Garland was born in London on 26 May 1970, the son of psychologist Caroline and political cartoonist Nicholas Garland.
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Alex Garland is the maternal grandson of writer Jean Medawar and Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Medawar.
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Alexander Garland was educated at University College School in Hampstead, England and later graduated from the University of Manchester in Manchester with an art history degree.
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Alex Garland's The Tesseract is a non-linear narrative with several interwoven characters, set in Manila, Philippines.
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In 2002, Alex Garland wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle's film 28 Days Later, starring Cillian Murphy.
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Alex Garland has said that the script was influenced by 1970s zombie films and English science fiction like The Day of the Triffids.
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The Resident Evil series served as an influence for 28 Days Later, with Alex Garland crediting the first game for revitalizing the zombie genre.
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Alex Garland won a Best Screenplay honor at the 2004 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for his script of the film.
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In 2005, Alex Garland wrote a screenplay for a film adaptation of Halo.
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Alex Garland served as an executive producer on 28 Weeks Later, the sequel of 28 Days Later.
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Alex Garland wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Alex Garland wrote the script for Dredd, an adaptation of the Judge Dredd comic book series from 2000 AD.
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In 2018, Karl Urban, who played the eponymous role in the film, stated that it was Alex Garland who deserved credit for directing Dredd.
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Alex Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a 2014 feature film based on his own story and screenplay, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac.
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Alex Garland has described it as "an adaptation [that] was a memory of the book," rather than book-referenced screenwriting, to capture the "dream like nature" and tone of his reading experience.
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In January 2021, Alex Garland was hired to direct his third film, Men, starring Jessie Buckley and Rory Kinnear.
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Alex Garland will reunite with Boyle to write 28 Years Later, the long-gestating sequel to 28 Days Later, which is intended to launch a new trilogy of zombie films.
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In February 2024, it was revealed that Charles Melton was in talks to star in Alex Garland's upcoming untitled war film with A24.
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Alex Garland wrote, served as executive producer, and directed the eight-episode miniseries Devs about the "mysterious ongoings at a tech company", for FX.
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Spaeny, who did not audition for the role as Alex Garland had wanted her specifically for it said that Devs was short for Development, and the series would explore the idea of the multiverse.
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Alex Garland served as a story supervisor on the game DmC: Devil May Cry in 2013.
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Alex Garland is married to English-Mexican actress Paloma Baeza, with whom he has a son and a daughter.
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Alex Garland has worked with several actors and crew members multiple times.