It's safe to say that the sci-fi genre has been very good to screenwriter Alex Garland, which is why he's content to not try and fix what isn't broken. Getting his start with Danny Boyle on 28 Days Later and the underrated Sunshine, he moved on to pen the futuristic Never Let Me Go and last year's Dredd. A few weeks ago we learned he'd be sticking with the genre for his directorial debut, Ex Machina, and now he's assembling a talented cast to join him.
Oscar Isaac and Domhnall Gleeson, the latter having a small role in Never Let Me Go, are coming aboard the film. Written by Garland and budgeted at $15M, the story has Isaac as a billionaire programmer, with Gleeson as his employee handpicked to spend a week at his remote estate and participate in a test involving his latest invention: an artificially intelligent female robot. As for who will play the fembot herself, Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina) and Felicity Jones (Like Crazy) are said to be in the running.
Producer Scott Rudin knows Isaac and Gleeson pretty well, having worked with them on Inside Llewyn Davis and True Grit. This sounds extremely promising, and it'll be interesting to see Garland's hand behind the camera for once. [The Wrap]
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