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The Agency is full of bureaucracy and Control is constantly undermined by his assistant director Grace Stevenson. He's looking into the files and reports from all the previous expeditions (of which we learn there have been many, and far more than the Agency is admitting). This does seem to rather rule out further explorations of this landscape, but with the movie's ending implying Oscar Isaac's Kane and possibly Lena are Area X clones and not the original version of themselves, the themes of genetic mutation and refraction could be pursued.Ĭontrol has a handler known only as 'The Voice' who gives him instructions over the phone. This absolutely does not happen in the book. At the end of the film, Lena destroys it with fire. This is the name of the strange landscape beyond the shimmer where the 12th expedition of Lena (Natalie Portman), Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Anya Thorensen (Gina Rodriguez), Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson) and Cass Sheppard (Tuva Novotny) head.Īrea X (referred to as a 'Pristine wilderness' in the book) is a biological anomaly which appeared suddenly and is rapidly expanding. Since Annihilation makes some major changes from the book (and brings in some elements from the sequels), and since the timeline of Authority and Acceptance isn't linear ( Authority takes place straight after Annihilation but Acceptance includes scenes that happen before Annihilation), we're going to break down possible sequel ideas by theme rather than separating them between the books.
