Alex Garland is the author of the bestselling novels The Beach, The Tesseract and The Coma, and the screenplays for 28 Days Later (2002) and Never Let Me Go (2010), based on the novel by Kazuro Ishiguro. In 2015, he made his directorial debut with Ex Machina and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as three BAFTAs, including Best Original Screenplay. He went on to direct Annihilation (2018), the horror film Men (2022) and Civil War (2024), starring Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny. Garland created, wrote and directed Devs, an eight-part mini-series for FX, starring Nick Offerman, which premiered in 2020. Most recently, he co-wrote and directed with Navy SEAL veteran Ray Mendoza the film Warfare, released in spring 2025.