Alex Garland explains how he ended up ghost-directing Dredd

Alex Garland explains how he ended up ghost-directing Dredd

Alex Garland is really cooking as of late. Over the last year, he’s dropped a provocative hypothetical scenario with Civil War and has just co-directed another unconventional war movie, Warfare, which he made in collaboration with Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza. He also reunites with Danny Boyle for the now hotly anticipated post-apocalyptic sequel 28 Years Later. Garland recently sat down with GQ to reflect on his notable films and he would talk …

Dredd | Alex Garland confirms he ghost-directed the film

Warfare filmmaker Alex Garland has confirmed rumours that he ghost-directed 2012’s Dredd, even though Pete Travis is listed in the credits. Before Alex Garland became an acclaimed director, he was a novelist and then screenwriter. However, the Civil War filmmaker’s step into directing stemmed from – in part at least – a desire to have to not relinquish control over the creative process once cameras start rolling, something most writers simply ha…

Alex Garland On "Dredd" & Ghost Directing

With his new film “Warfare” now out in cinemas, filmmaker Alex Garland recently did a career retrospective video with GQ Magazine (via The Playlist) and has admitted that he has ghost-directed on films he previously wrote. One of the early films covered in the video is that “Ex Machina” which is officially the first film he directed on his CV after serving as writer on “28 Days Later,” “The Beach,” “Sunshine,” “Never Let Me Go” and “Dredd”. In t…

Alex Garlands Finally, Somewhat, Admits to Ghost Directing ‘Dredd' — World of Reel

Well, it’s about time. Alex Garland recently opened up, via an interview with GQ Magazine, that he quietly stepped into the director’s role on a film he originally wrote—fueling long-standing speculation that he was the uncredited force behind 2012’s “Dredd.”In truth, what happened, just to be candid about it, look, a lot of time has passed, I did end up […] doing ghost-directing. Something would be going wrong, or I would feel something was goi…