Annihilation

Annihilation follows Lena, a biologist and former soldier, who joins a secret expedition into 'the Shimmer,' a strange expanding zone where nature has mutated beyond recognition. As the team ventures deeper, they uncover disturbing transformations and unsettling truths about themselves. The film is a haunting meditation on self-destruction, identity, and humanity's confrontation with the utterly unknowable.

• Based on Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 novel of the same name.
• Director Alex Garland never reread the book while writing.
• Natalie Portman trained with real biologists for her role.
• The production used real locations in the UK and US.
• Paramount clashed with Garland over the film's ambiguous ending.

• It's not destroying. It's making something new.
• Almost none of us commit suicide, and almost all of us self-destruct.
• I think it was rewriting the DNA of every living thing.
• You're not a religious man, but you believe in something, don't you?
• I didn't run. I walked in with my eyes open.