Academy Award-nominated director Alex Garland has returned to the big screen with his latest horror feature “Men,” starring "I'm Thinking of Ending Things” actor Jessie Buckley in the lead role, who plays a young woman on a solo vacation in the English countryside after the death of her ex-husband.
Buckley, whose rise to stardom was quick, has recently scored an Oscar nomination for her performance in the 2021 Netflix film “The lost Daughter.”
She told IndieWire, “I like auditioning, but sometimes you fall in love with characters, when you get a script it punches you in the stomach and you work your ass off,” Buckley said at the time. “With auditions, you get to taste a little bit of what it might be. It might not work out. Somebody has a different idea of what that might be. I don’t mind that. Different stories each find you at different times. It’s sad when I see a person going away from me, after I got to read something, and looked at myself or the world differently because of that transient love passing through my life for a few weeks.”
The cast also includes Rory Kinnear (“No Time to Die”) and Paapa Essiedu (“I May Destroy You”).
Written and directed by Garland, “Men” marks his return to the horror genre after the critical success of his previous features “Ex Machina” and “Annihilation.” He had previously collaborated with A24 for “Ex Machina.”
Garland’s next feature “Civil War,” also produced by A24, will star Academy Award nominee Kirsten Dunst alongside a supporting cast of Wagner Moura, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Cailee Spaeny.
A24 is a prominent independent production company that released notable horror films like “Hereditary,” “Midsommar,” “The Lighthouse,” “The Hole in the Ground,” “It Comes at Night,” “The Witch,” “Saint Maud,” “Under the Skin” and others.
Produced by Eli Bush, Andrew Macdonald, and Allon Reich, “Men” will hit the theaters on May 20, 2022
