Sometimes, a competition can reward you with more than you bargained for. When a 24-year-old coder for the world’s largest investment company wins the chance to spend a week with the companies CEO, he has no idea what is in store for him. Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson) travels into the middle of nowhere to find the retreat of CEO Nathan (Oscar Isaac), but he soon discovers that the contest has actually entered him into an insane experiment, rather than offering him a reward. Steadily, it is revealed that Nathan has actually developed the world’s first AI, and from there, the world will never be the same again.
Screenwriter Alex Garland (’28 Days Later…’, ‘Dredd’) makes his directorial debut with ‘Ex_Machina’, a science fiction thriller which he also wrote. The movie was produced by Eli Bush (‘Captain Phillips’), Tessa Ross (‘Slumdog Millionaire’) and Scott Rudin (‘No Country For Old Men’). Music was composed by Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury, with cinematography by Rob Hardy and editing by Mark Day (‘Harry Potter’ films five to eight). Distributed by Universal Pictures, the film is set to be released in the UK on 23rd January, 2015.
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander, Chelsea Li, Corey Johnson, Evie Wray, Deborah Rosan, Sonoya Mizuno, Symara A. Templeman, Elina Alminas, Ramzan Miah