“I got to speak about environmental things a lot, though, because of the amplification. “I guess I was frustrated that it was so different from the book because the movie had no environmental themes to speak of,” he says. So VanderMeer was disappointed when he watched Garland’s critically acclaimed adaptation, which starred Natalie Portman. The 51-year-old explains that his writing is concerned less with science fiction than climate change. In VanderMeer’s “Southern Reach Trilogy”, the first part of which, Annihilation, was adapted by Ex Machina director Alex Garland and bought by Netflix in 2018, VanderMeer writes from the perspective of creatures whose lives have been transformed – and ruined – by humans. The trick is to write about non-human characters that have been altered by human beings.” Natalie Portman stars in the thoroughly ‘weird’ Annihilation (Photo: Netflix) “But you can’t get into the consciousness of an actual fox because, of course, that would be incomprehensible. “I like writing from non-human perspectives,” says VanderMeer from his home in Tallahassee, Florida.
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