Evidently not.
“I’ve got no objection to someone else doing that, but I’m not interested in the idea of a sequel,” Garland told IndieWire. “I feel like we made this movie and this is the movie we made.”
The studio has not announced any plans to develop a sequel, and Garland is not thinking about it either.
“When the thing is done, I am done with it,” Garland added. “I instantly start moving on, so I don’t even have an opinion on an ‘Annihilation’ sequel. All the way through I was clear with everyone, from the studio to the cast, I told everyone that I didn’t really see it as part of a franchise.”
He continues: “My goal was to make this film and do the best job I can. I didn’t even conceptualize it as the start of a trilogy. Sequels are just not something I’m interested in doing. It’s like when you don’t like steak, you don’t make the decision not to eat steak, you just don’t eat steak. I just don’t do sequels.”
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