‘Ex Machina’ Trailer: Alex Garland Directs A Bizarre Love Triangle [UPDATED]
After years of scripting and producing sci-fi movies,Alex Garland(28 Days Later,Sunshine) is finally trying his hand at directing one.Ex MachinafeaturesStar Wars Episode 7castmatesOscar IsaacandDomhnall Gleesonas two men working on an artificially intelligent robot played byAlicia Vikander. As is always the case in movies about AIs, things don’t go quite the way they expect. Watch the firstEx Machinatrailer after the jump.
UPDATE:Another newEx Machinatrailer has been added after the jump.
The trailer from Universal Pictures UK reveals a lot more about the plot.
Looks like things get real bad real fast for Caleb (Gleeson) and Nathan (Isaac). Earlier descriptions ofEx Machinapromise an “intense psychological thriller, played out in a love triangle between two men and a beautiful robot girl,” which touches upon “big ideas about the nature of consciousness, emotion, sexuality, truth and lies.”
From here, it looks like Garland is off to a pretty solid start as a director.Ex Machinaseems as rich and thrilling as any of the scripts he’s written for other directors, and the striking visuals suggest he’s picked up a few tips from them as well. Plus, what a cast — expect all three of the primaries to be much, much bigger stars by the end of 2015.
One other note: the score for the film is by Portishead founderGeoff Barrowand soundtrack composerBen Salisbury. They previously created a score for the Garland-produced Dredd. That score wasn’t used for the film in the end, but was expanded into a standalone album calledDrokk; Music Inspired by Mega-City One.Geoff Barrow says, “It’s been great for Ben and me to be working with [Director] Alex Garland again, and hopefully we have written the kind of score an intense sci-fi thriller like this needs”
(Note: The US trailer — the top embed above — uses Barrow and Salisbury’s score. The UK trailer does not.)
