The new project of Alex Garland whom we know from Ex-Machina and The Annihilation is a science fiction show that will be on FX.
The show named Devs will have eight episodes and will focus on a computer engineer who believes that a big company that is also his client is responsible for his girlfriend’s death. The main character will be Lily Chand and will be portrayed by Sonoya Mizuno whom we know from Crazy Rich Asians. Other actors will be Nick Offerman, Alison Pill, and Zach Grenier.
The show will last one season and the CEO of FX John Landgraf said that Alex Garland is an imaginative artist and he believes that Alex created the perfect cast for the show. Landgraf believes that Alex who will direct all eight episodes created excellent work and as FX they have really impressed with what they have seen and their decision to have the show was an easy one.
We still don’t know the official date of its release but we expect it to be on FX in 2019. Garland also works on an adaptation of the video game Halo at the moment. Right now, Garland is only the scenarist of the show. Alex Garland created mind-blowing works for the science fiction genre with his two films but we can say that Dev’s doesn’t have the same strong narrative and it has a relatively predictable ending. But still, this show deserves its success in conveying the ideas that were only on paper to the screen and successfully managing to reflect the vision of Garland which is full of challenging ideas. And we definitely can say that Garland is one of the most exciting directors and scenarists today in the science fiction genre.
