Poster Annihilation

Title: Annihilation

Original Title: Annihilation

Year: 2018

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: March 12 2018
  • United States: February 23 2018

Plot

From the writer and director of 'Ex-Machina' and based in the sci-fi novel with the same name 'Annihilation', written by Jeff VanderMeer, the film is set in a non-defined future where a biologist played by Natalie Portman, Lena, leads a group of women (Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson and Jennifer Jason Leigh) to a mysterious alien section of planet Earth. The place is called "Area X" and all the people that have gone there to explore have never come back. An area outside a house with plant structures that are formed to look like human bodies. While searching clues of her husband's disappearance the biologist and her group must deal with a contamination, vanishing colleagues, a deadly animal and a creature known as the Crawler.

Cast

Director:

Alex Garland Alex Garland

Videos

'Annihilation' Teaser trailer 1:46

'Annihilation' Teaser trailer

September 27 2017

Photos

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Trivia

Based on a trilogy

'Annihilation' is based on the first best-seller book in the sci-fi Southern Reach trilogy of Jeff VanderMeer.

Anya

Anya means mother in Hungarian.

Bobbi Jene Smith

The dance between Lena and her alien double was choreographed by Bobbi Jene Smith, an American choreographer and dancer. Smith was the subject of a documentary directed by Elvira Lind, the partner of actor Oscar Isaac.

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