In 2005, Garland wrote a screenplay for a film adaptation of Halo. [14] D. B. Weiss and Josh Olson rewrote this during 2006 for a 2008 release, [15] [16] although the film was later canceled. [16] In 2007, he wrote the screenplay for the film Sunshine, which was his second screenplay to be directed by Danny Boyle and to star Cillian Murphy. Garland served as an executive producer on 28 Weeks Later, the sequel of 28 Days Later. He wrote the screenplay for the 2010 film Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. He also wrote the script for Dredd, an adaptation of the Judge Dredd comic book series from 2000 AD. In 2018, Karl Urban, who played the eponymous role in the film, stated that it was Garland who deserved credit for also directing Dredd. [17] Garland made his directorial debut with Ex Machina, a 2014 feature film based on his own story and screenplay. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac. the film won a Jury Prize at the 2015 Gerardmer Film Festival and earned Garland a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Kroll, Justin (29 April 2016). " 'Containment' Star Joins Natalie Portman in 'Annihilation' ". Variety . Retrieved 9 April 2017.

In form, though, "The Coma" is vastly different than Garland's earlier writing, "The Tesseract" in particular. Whereas that book intricately wove together several individual stories, "The Coma" is essentially a story composed of a single arc, and this formal tic may, for some, be its big weakness. The title is a pretty obvious giveaway; as Garland writes late in the story, "there are no surprises here." Granted, length is hardly the arbiter of quality. But The Coma is hardly Albert Camus. Its plot, which bears discomfiting similarities to the opening moments of 28 Days Later (a man emerging from a coma, trying to unravel his displacement), is as thin as its binding. The Coma is the sad revelation of a once fresh talent running on empty. Tim Adams, writing for the Guardian, said, "Garland is very good at recreating the virtual worlds of the half-awake and then subtly dissolving them." [3]

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Garland, Alex (10 April 2015). "INTERVIEW: Director Alex Garland on Ex Machina". HuffPost. Interviewed by Zaki Hasan . Retrieved 21 June 2018. Garland is very good at recreating the virtual worlds of the half-awake and then subtly dissolving them. As his protagonist realises that he is only dreaming about recovery from his assault, he questions where his thinking self is located. The result is compelling and chilling. Miller, Ross (14 July 2006). "DB Weiss takes on Halo script". Engadget. Archived from the original on 22 September 2020 . Retrieved 23 September 2022. A reviewer for Bookslut said, "Initially, some of Garland’s motifs and literary devices seemed too elaborate and obscure; yet on a second read they disentangle and shine." [4]

Garland's second film, Annihilation (2018), was based on Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 science fiction novel of the same name. Garland has described it as "an adaptation [that] was a memory of the book," rather than book-referenced screenwriting, to capture the "dream like nature" and tone of his reading experience. [18] [19] [20] Production began in 2016, [21] and the film was released in February 2018. [22] Garland has recently become a father, I wonder if this growing sense of domestication makes it harder for him to summon the disconnectedness that his books describe. a b Watson, Grant (6 November 2014). " 'Something in the blood' | 28 Days Later... (2002)". Fiction Machine . Retrieved 21 June 2018. Annihilation' director Alex Garland chats with CNET about the upcoming film". CNET. 8 February 2018 . Retrieved 18 March 2018– via YouTube. @ 32m15s-33m30s Annihilation' director Alex Garland chats with CNET about the upcoming film (YouTube). CNET. 8 February 2018. Event occurs at 14;40 . Retrieved 18 March 2018.Cailee Spaeny on What to Expect From Alex Garland's New Show, Devs". Indiewire. 26 July 2019 . Retrieved 7 September 2019. Garland is married to English-Mexican actress Paloma Baeza, with whom he has a son named Milo and a daughter named Eva. [5] Bibliography [ edit ] Alex Garland Will Never Direct Another 'Dredd' Movie: 'It Was a Crude Experience' ". IndieWire. 11 October 2019 . Retrieved 20 October 2020. Detail. Spectacular. Fractal. The threads that constructed my shirt, and the smaller threads that constructed the larger threads. The shapes of the clouds above, the shapes that led to further shapes, and the slow movement of the clouds across the sky… Presented by my memory effortlessly, with no act of concentration. No pause to assemble or consider the image as my gaze swept from left to right, or up or down, or anywhere.”

His father's illustrations heighten the oddness. Garland was very keen to make the novel a collaborative effort, in part because he had enjoyed that experience when working on the screenplay for the film 28 Days later with Andrew Macdonald and Danny Boyle, who also directed the film of The Beach. The Coma isn't without its moments. A trip to a bookstore and a record shop are entertaining digressions that recall Garland's culturally attuned ear (and made The Beach a big hit). But with The Dark Tower's urban identity crisis hovering in recent memory (with text and literal illustrations to boot), these two moments feel lifted from Stephen King's muddled riffs. a b c Lewis, Tim (11 January 2015). "Alex Garland on Ex Machina: 'I feel more attached to this film than to anything before' ". The Guardian. Hume, Lucy, ed. (2017). "Garland, Nicholas Withycombe [entry]". People of Today 2017. Debrett's. p.2,365. ISBN 9781999767037.verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ Alex Garland". British Council. n.d. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018 . Retrieved 9 February 2018. There’s also other ways to interpret The Coma: it might be an exercise in exploring narrative fiction from the perspective of the character. Carl is a character in a novel, so this story might be about him slowly realising this. All he knows are the facts that the author has supplied him with that we see in the opening passage of the book: he works in an office with papers, he has a secretary, he was brutally assaulted, and he’s in a coma. When he thinks about other aspects of his life, he draws a blank. If that could happen to Carl, could it happen to us – are we characters in a story we’re not aware of? Garland made his directorial debut when he wrote and directed the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina (2014). The film earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and won him three British Independent Film Awards (Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best British Independent Film). His second film, Annihilation (2018), was an adaptation of the 2014 novel and was also a critical success. He wrote and directed the miniseries Devs (2020) and the horror film Men (2022).