Background
Alex Garland was born on May 26, 1970 in London, United Kingdom, the son of psychologist Caroline (née Medawar) and political cartoonist Nicholas Garland.
University College School Junior Branch, 11 Holly Hill, London NW3 6QN, United Kingdom
Garland attended the independent University College School, in Hampstead, London.
Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, United States
Garland attended the University of Manchester, where he studied art history.
University College School Junior Branch, 11 Holly Hill, London NW3 6QN, United Kingdom
Garland attended the independent University College School, in Hampstead, London.
Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL, United States
Garland attended the University of Manchester, where he studied art history.
(The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major moti...)
The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The Khao San Road, Bangkok - first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach." The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden.
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1998
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An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs and remembering her first love; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychiatrist who is studying their dreams. Alex Garland demonstrates the range of his extraordinary talents as a novelist in this national bestseller, a Chinese puzzle of a novel about three intersecting sets of characters in the Philippines.
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2000
(A massive epidemic has swept the world, leaving in its wa...)
A massive epidemic has swept the world, leaving in its wake a host of rabid humans seething with hatred and bent on destroying anyone untouched by the disease. Four seemingly unaffected people — a young man, a young woman, a father, and his daughter — flee London through an apocalyptic landscape as they try to reach the coast, beset along the way by attacks of “Infected” at every turn. When they arrive at an isolated house in the country, inhabited by a small group of soldiers, they think they have found a haven from the violence outside. But they soon find they’ve jumped from the frying pan into the fire.
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2003
(When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a s...)
When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly mistaken? So begins a dark psychological drama that raises questions about the the human psyche, dream versus reality, and the boundaries of consciousness.
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2005
(The Sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last ...)
The Sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last hope is a spaceship and a crew of eight men and women. They carry a device which will breathe new life into the star. But, deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission is starting to unravel. Soon, the crew are fighting not only for their lives, but their sanity.
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2007
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2014
(Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest interne...)
Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
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2015
(A group of soldiers enters an environmental disaster zone...)
A group of soldiers enters an environmental disaster zone and only one comes back out alive, though he is grievously injured. In an attempt to save his life, his wife Lena, a biologist, volunteers for a second expedition into the zone to figure out what happened to him.
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2018
illustrator novelist screenwriter
Alex Garland was born on May 26, 1970 in London, United Kingdom, the son of psychologist Caroline (née Medawar) and political cartoonist Nicholas Garland.
Garland attended the independent University College School, in Hampstead, London, and the University of Manchester, where he studied art history.
In 1996, Garland's first novel, "The Beach", based upon Garland's own travels across Europe and Thailand, was published. In 1998, Garland followed up "The Beach" with "The Tesseract", a non-linear narrative with several interwoven characters set in Manila, Philippines.
In 2002, Garland wrote the screenplay for Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later", starring Cillian Murphy. In 2005, Garland wrote a script for a film adaptation of "Halo". In 2007, he wrote the screenplay for the film "Sunshine" – 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 to "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.
Garland made his directorial debut with "Ex Machina", a 2014 feature film based on his own story and screenplay. The film stars Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, and Oscar Isaac. Garland's second film, "Annihilation" (2018), was based on Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 science fiction novel of the same name.
Garland is the co-writer on the video game "Enslaved: Odyssey to the West" for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Garland also served as a Story Supervisor on the game "DmC: Devil May Cry" in 2013.
Alex rose to prominence as a novelist in the late 1990s with his novel "The Beach", which led some critics to call Garland a key voice of Generation X. He subsequently received praise for the screenplays of the films "28 Days Later" (2002), "Sunshine" (2007), "Never Let Me Go" (2010), and "Dredd" (2012). In 2014, Garland made his directorial debut with "Ex Machina", which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. He also won three BIFA awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best British Independent Film.
(An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological ...)
2000(Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest interne...)
2015(A massive epidemic has swept the world, leaving in its wa...)
2003(A group of soldiers enters an environmental disaster zone...)
2018(When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a s...)
2005(The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major moti...)
1998(The Sun is dying, and mankind is dying with it. Our last ...)
2007
Quotations:
"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 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."
"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."
Quotes from others about the person
Garland walks a fine line between pop culture and literary tradition.
Garland is married to actress Paloma Baeza and has two children.
