Alex Garland is the screenwriter behind some awesome films like 28 Days Later, Sunshine, and Dredd. His directorial debut Ex Machina is premiering at SXSW and here’s the first one-sheet poster for it, featuring Alicia Vikander’s robot butt. It features some great actors and is being distributed by A24 Films, who were behind some amazing films last year like Enemy, Under the Skin, and A Most Violent Year.
Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac).
Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.
Ex Machina hits theaters April 10.
