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Why Alex Garland Changed the Ex Machina Ending

It’s been five years since Ex Machina’s release and in that time its reputation has risen from indie darling to sci-fi classic. The weight of its status is evident when studio A24 releases a coffee table book about its screenplay and development, and as the myths around its creation and writer-director Alex Garland continue to to grow. One such bit of cult lore centers on the removal of the movie’s originally more opaque ending. It’s in the Ex Machina screenplay found in that coffee table book, and we’ve known about it since Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac first teased it…
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