‘Warfare’s Alex Garland Saved a Beloved Sci-Fi Action Thriller by Secretly Directing It... Allegedly
Before Warfare, Alex Garland quietly made most of the chief creative decisions on the cult sci-fi action thriller Dredd.
The more Alex Garland solidifies his identity as a proven auteur, the clearer it becomes that he has a fascination with the human impulse towards violence as a way of enforcing social order. With Civil Warin the past and Warfareon the horizon, Garland keeps looking into the eye of the pervasive storm that never ceases in the hearts of those who feel a need to fight against a senseless world. He's come a long way from his days as a go-to screenwriter for intelligent science fiction and shocking horror, and it turns out we should have seen this shift coming, as he combined those two sides to write Dredd, an action cult classic that he may have had a way bigger hand in making than people initially thought.
