Jennifer Jason Leigh to Join Natalie Portman in Alex Garland’s Sci-Fi Film ANNIHILATION
Jennifer Jason Leigh, who recently starred in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, is in talks to join Natalie Portman in the sci-fi film Annihilation. The movie is being directed by Ex Machina writer and director Alex Garland.
The story is based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, which follows “a four-person expedition into Area X, a territory cut off from civilization. While there, [a biologist] must deal with a mysterious contamination, disappearing colleagues, a deadly animal and a being known as the Crawler, all while searching for clues regarding her husband’s disappearance.”
The expedition team for the dangerous mission consists of only women and Area X is a place where the laws of nature don’t apply. The group consists of an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist who serves as the group’s de facto leader; and a biologist, played by Portman, who serves as the narrator. Two of the other actresses who have been cast in the film include Gina Rodriguez and Tessa Thompson, but there’s no information on who exactly they’re playing.
Leigh is talented as hell and after seeing her in The Hateful Eight, there was no doubt that she would start getting job offers for better more high-profile films like this.
She is next set to star as Bella Thorne in Amityville: The Awakening, she’s also playing Lady Bird Johnson opposite Woody Harrelson in Rob Reiner‘s political drama LBJ, and she will be in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks revival series.