вЂњIn my mind, it was this sort of punk film,вЂќ Garland once said. theaters the previous November - the film rethought the horror genre and proved to be a chilling post-9/11 commentary at the same time. Released on June 27, 2003, in the States - it had hit U.K.

Viewers can argue about whether 28 Days Later is technically a zombie film - people arenвЂ™t dead, theyвЂ™re just infected by a virus that makes them seem zombie-like - but just about everyone agrees that itвЂ™s one incredibly scary movie. Initially, I was working with Andrew Macdonald, who I still work with now actually, and I said to him that I had an idea for a movie about running zombies.вЂќДў8 Days Later was his first produced screenplay - The Beach had been adapted by frequent Boyle collaborator John Hodge - and, right out of the gate, heвЂ™d come up with a classic. It just looked like a lot of fun, really. вЂњI had been writing novels up until that point,вЂќ Garland recalled in 2016, вЂњand just the idea of a collaboration seemed very attractive to me. But that transition from author to big-screen auteur first materialized when director Danny Boyle was making The Beach, which inspired Garland to think about a future in movies. A former novelist who wrote The Beach, which got turned into the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, the 51-year-old writer/director penned the screenplays for some of the smartest and most interesting sci-fi films this century with Sunshine, Never Let Me Go, and Dredd before stepping behind the camera for Ex Machina and Annihilation.

There may be no more exciting genre filmmaker working right now than Alex Garland.

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