Alex Garland Breaks Down the Making of ‘Men’ and How 'Attack on Titan' Influenced the Film

With Men now playing in theaters, I recently got to speak with writer-director Alex Garland about making his latest film. During the interview, Garland talked about how Men doesn’t explain everything, why he likes to not spoon feed the audience, if he felt any pressure to give more answers, how Attack on Titan influenced the film and made him raise his game, how he worked with director of photography Rob Hardy on the color scheme, and more.

GARLAND: Well, this film, Men, as it happens, I wrote the first draft of this film maybe fifteen years ago. Could be more. I think I wrote the first draft between Sunshine and Never Let Me Go, which is quite a long time ago. I don't know how many years ago it was, [but] a long time ago. It's had one, two, at least three, and maybe four completely different incarnations before this one, which is either the fourth or fifth.

I'm a fan of your work with Rob Hardy, who have you worked with nonstop, what was it about his work that you saw that said, I want to work with him on Ex Machina? And how has the relationship blossomed on all the projects? GARLAND: It's a really simple, really simple color scheme, which was red and green. We used red in very selective places, and then we timed our shoot. We had a really complicated thing to do with the timing of the shoot, but where we were up against the wire on all sorts of things, but we pushed it to literally the last possible day we could start shooting because we were waiting for spring to arrive and for the leaves to turn green.

GARLAND: I had no pressure at all. I think that earlier on in my filmmaking life, I was under a lot of pressure the whole time to explain from all sorts of different areas. It wouldn't just be studios, it could be creatives, it could be people sort of involved in a sort of at the cold face side of it on set or wherever. It was never really my taste.

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