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Finish Alex GarlandsAnnihilationand youll find yourself sitting in a dark theater quietly murmuring, What the…?
The book and film versions ofAnnihilation, however, are equally What the…?
So how exactly did Garland makeAnnihilationinto a movie?
Where did he take liberties in interpretation, and where did he depart from the source material entirely?
Here are a few key spots weve analyzed.
(Spoilers for both the book and the movie below).
I really didnt think too much about the trilogy side of it.
Still, much of the world outside of the twelfth expedition in the film isnotpresent in the first novel.
In the book, she does so by reading a stack of journals she finds in the lighthouse.
In the movie, she finds handheld camera footage, largely shot by her husband.
