Paramount Pictures a acquis les droits des trois livres et mis en chantier le tournage du premier. Pas de date de prévue pour le moment.
Annihilation vient de sortir en février dernier. Je vous mets la couverture et le résumé.
The book opens with an all female team of four who cross the border into an uninhabited area known as Area X. The team consists of an anthropologist, surveyor, biologist, and psychologist. The story is told through the biologist's field journal. They are part of the 12th expedition into Area X and it is revealed that the biologist's husband was part of the previous expedition into the same area. The narrator's husband returned after the expedition, showing up in their kitchen without any recollection of how he got there. A few months later he died of cancer along with the others in the 11th expedition.
After the first night which they spend at base camp, the 12th expedition come upon a set of spiral stairs into the ground. Inside the staircase (which the biologist repeatedly calls a tower), they find cursive writing. The writing appears to consist of a plant material. While the biologist is examining the writing, she accidentally insufflates spores. After returning from the tower, the biologist discovers that the psychologist, who is the appointed leader, has programmed the group with certain triggers via hypnosis. By saying the phrase "consolidation of authority" everyone except the biologist immediately enters a state of hypnosis. The biologist believes that the spores she has inhaled have made her immune. The group decides to return to base camp for the night and at dusk, they hear a moaning noise from far away.
After camping out for the night, the anthropologist is missing; the psychologist claims the anthropologist decided to leave and returned to the border. The group then make their way back to the tower and the surveyor and narrator descend back down the stairs while the psychologist keeps watch. Eventually the surveyor and biologist come upon the body of the anthropologist. It is believed she came into contact with the writer of the text on the wall (which the narrator names the Crawler). When the group return to the top, they find the psychologist missing.
The biologist and surveyor decide to spend the night at the base camp. After nightfall, the biologist sees a light from the area of the lighthouse so the next day she leaves for the lighthouse while the surveyor stays. At the lighthouse, she finds a pile of journals from past expeditions--among them is her husband's journal. She also finds a photograph of what she thinks is the lighthouse keeper and along the beach, she also finds the psychologist barely alive. The psychologist leaped from the top of the lighthouse trying to escape an unknown entity. Before dying, the psychologist tells the narrator that border is moving north slowly. Area X appears to be expanding further and further north. She also mentions the biologist now has started to glow, her body emitting a dim yellow light.
On her way back to base camp, the biologist has a close encounter with the moaning animal she hears every night in the reeds. She is able to escape though she then finds the surveyor armed with a rifle. They begin to exchange fire but the biologist manages to outflank and kill her. Being the only one left, the biologist decides to return to the tunnel to see if she can find the Crawler. She makes her way down the spiral staircase and eventually finds the Crawler. After a nearly fatal encounter, she manages to exit the tunnel. On the way out, she encounters the man from the lighthouse photograph. He is imprisoned by the organisms in the tunnel and hasn't aged at all. The book closes with the biologist stating she doesn't plan to return home. Instead she decides to stay in Area X and find perhaps any part of her late husband's presence which she believes remains somewhere in Area X.
