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- Height6′ 1″ (1.85 m)
- Alex Garland is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is best known for the films Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).
Garland's others works as a writer includes The Beach (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2011) and Dredd (2012).
He is also the co-writer on the video game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
In 2015, Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Writing, Original Screenplay category.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges
- SpousePaloma Baeza(? - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenMilo GarlandEva Garland
- ParentsCaroline Medawar Garland
- Often works with Sonoya Mizuno.
- According to Karl Urban, besides writing the script, he was the one who effectively directed Dredd (2012) and not credited director Pete Travis, who was ultimately sidelined.
- Loves writing about Manila, Philippines where he lived for many months as a teenager.
- His favourite films include Come and See (1985), Spirited Away (2001), Walkabout (1971), Parasite (2019) and The Lighthouse (2019).
- His biggest Si-Fi influences are Alien (1979), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the British anthology comic series 2000 A.D. and the work of author J.G Ballard.
- Member of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) since 2016.
- It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.
- I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.
- I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important part of film marketing now, even when the films are not directly linked to a comic.
- When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.
- I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.
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