For his official directorial debut, Alex Garland found the atmosphere on the set of Ex Machina quite refreshing.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Garland and producer Andrew Macdonald looked back on their work so far at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and explained how Ex Machina Garland’s career as a filmmaker began a decade ago. “I never wanted to be a director,” Garland admitted, explaining that his motivation for choosing this career was “directors from changing things, and the only way to do that was to take that position (the director).” Still, he enjoyed the camaraderie that went into making his film, describing the cast as “young and very hardworking and very dedicated. We had a very friendly crew who believed in the project and worked as hard as they could. There was a good atmosphere and everyone pulled together. It was friendly.”

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More importantly, Garland and Macdonald recognized how Ex MachinaThe mood of gave them the opposite feeling of previous films they had worked on together. While the Civil War Director did not name a specific project, he regretted: “we had just shot a series of toxic films and toxic film sets are extraordinarily unpleasant places. You can’t escape the whining, the factionalism and the divisions between departments. It’s just terrible. And I think Ex Machina came as an antidote to this. It was the exact opposite.” Before directing, Garland gained recognition as a screenwriter for films such as 28 days later, never let Me GoAnd Dreddalthough loud Dredd Garland, who played the lead role in Judge Dredd, was largely responsible for directing the adaptation of Judge Dredd, although Pete Travis was credited with those titles in the credits.

With Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac, Ex Machina follows programmer Caleb Smith as he visits the remote home of his company boss Nathan Bateman, only to become part of an experiment testing the AI ​​and ability of his robot creation Ava to feel human. The film was a critical and commercial success, leading to Garland directing destruction, Menand the youngest Civil Warwhich follows a war photographer (Kirsten Dunst) and her allies as they travel across the war-torn United States to Washington, DC, to interview and photograph the country’s authoritarian president before he is forcibly removed from office. The film was the subject of online criticism in the run-up to its release – from its premise commenting on the divisive state of US politics to promotional graphics developed using artificial intelligence – but still received positive reviews, holding an 81% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing.

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Ex Machina can be rented on Prime Video and Apple TV+.

Source: THR

Ex Machina

A young programmer is selected to take part in a groundbreaking experiment in artificial intelligence to evaluate the human characteristics of a highly advanced humanoid AI.

director

Alex Garland

Release date

24 April 2015

Pour

Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac

Authors

Alex Garland

Duration

1 hour 48 minutes

Production company

A24, Universal Pictures, Film4

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