Alex Garland Calls His Upcoming FX Series ‘Tech-Based Sci-Fi’

In an interview with Fandango, director Alex Garland spoke about the sci-fi series he’s working on for FX. Here are highlights:

On the FX TV series he’s producing: “The next project, provided it happens… is an eight-part television series for FX. It’s a sort of science fiction, but it’s a much more technology based sci fi whereas Annihilation is a more hallucinogenic form of sci fi and more fantastical form of sci fi…This is slightly more in common with projects I’ve worked on like Ex Machina or Never Let Me Go, which are taking something about our world now — not our world in the future, but our world as it is right now — and then drawing sort of inferences and conclusions from it.”

On who will direct: “It’s already written [and] my plan at the moment is to direct the eight episodes, but for practical reasons that might not be possible. That’s the way I’m thinking about it at the moment.”