{"id":408033,"date":"2017-09-28T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/09\/27\/ex-machina-director-s-next-film-explores-a-dreamy-otherworld\/21|23224946"},"modified":"2017-09-28T03:46:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T19:46:00","slug":"ex-machina-directors-next-film-explores-a-dreamy-otherworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/ex-machina-directors-next-film-explores-a-dreamy-otherworld\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ex Machina\u2019 director\u2019s next film explores a dreamy otherworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ufaDurSCKOk\" width=\"640\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Annihilation<\/em> is an adaptation of the first book (of the same name) in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_Reach_Trilogy\">Southern Reach<\/a> trilogy, an award-winning science fiction series written by Jeff VanderMeer. Portman plays protagonist Lena, a biologist tasked with investigating Area X, a portion of the southern United States cordoned off from the outside world by a strange rainbow-slick membrane. Inside, she delves deeper into a surreal landscape, which may have played a part in her husband&#8217;s (Oscar Isaac) death after he returned from an expedition into Area X. Tessa Thompson and Jennifer Jason Leigh also star, though they have tragically little screen time in the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Annihilation<\/em> adapts the first part in the book trilogy, Garland didn&#8217;t make the film with two others in mind &#8212; it&#8217;ll be a standalone movie, he <a href=\"http:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2017\/09\/26\/annihilation-natalie-portman-alex-garland\/\">told<\/a> <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Annihilation is an adaptation of the first book (of the same name) in the Southern Reach trilogy, an award-winning science fiction series written by Jeff VanderMeer. Portman plays protagonist Lena, a biologist tasked with investigating Area X, a portion of the southern United States cordoned off from the outside world by a strange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":408034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-408033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}