It’s been quite awhile since we got our first look at Ex Machina, the directorial debut of 28 Days Later writer Alex Garland. But with the film slated to make its North American premiere at the SXSW Film Festival next weekend, a new trailer and poster have begun making the rounds.
Ex Machina stars Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac (both of whom will have roles in Star Wars: The Force Awakens) as a computer programmer and his CEO, respectively, who are holed up in a remote cabin with an advanced new artificial intelligence named Ava (Alicia Vikander). Check out the official Ex Machina trailer below.
Ex Machina will debut at the SXSW Film Festival on March 14, before heading out to theaters on April 10.
Alex Garland, writer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine, makes his directorial debut with the stylish and cerebral thriller, EX MACHINA. Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson), a programmer at an internet-search giant, wins a competition to spend a week at the private mountain estate of the company’s brilliant and reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Oscar Isaac).
Upon his arrival, Caleb learns that Nathan has chosen him to be the human component in a Turing Test—charging him with evaluating the capabilities, and ultimately the consciousness, of Nathan’s latest experiment in artificial intelligence. That experiment is Ava (Alicia Vikander), a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated––and more deceptive––than the two men could have imagined.
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