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Alex Garland Has Precisely Zero Interest in Making an ‘Annihilation’ Sequel
Today marks the home video release of Ex Machina director Alex Garland’s Annihilation, now available on DVD and Blu-ray. The Natalie Portman-starring sci-fi/horror film was well received by critics even if it wasn’t a financial success, but it’s unquestionably the sort of movie that’s going to amass a huge fanbase in the years to come.
So then, would Garland ever be interested in returning to The Shimmer for a sequel? Speaking with Indiewire, Garland emphatically drove a stake into the heart of that one.
“I’ve got no objection to someone else doing that, but I’m not interested in the idea of a sequel,” Garland told the site. “I feel like we made this movie and this is the movie we made.”
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He continued, “When the thing is done, I am done with it. I instantly start moving on, so I don’t even have an opinion on an Annihilation sequel. All the way through I was clear with everyone, from the studio to the cast, I told everyone that I didn’t really see it as part of a franchise. My goal was to make this film and do the best job I can. I didn’t even conceptualize it as the start of a trilogy. Sequels are just not something I’m interested in doing. I just don’t do sequels.”
It’s worth noting that Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation, which the movie was based on, was the first novel in a series called The Southern Reach Trilogy.
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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