Gattaca director Andrew Niccol on conformity, technology, and his new Netflix film Anon

At this point in Andrew Niccol’s career, audiences should be pretty clear on when they’re watching one of his films, even if they miss the opening credits. Niccol specializes in high-concept stories about the ways technology affects society — sometimes radically, like in his science fiction films Gattaca, In Time, and S1m0ne, and sometimes more subtly, as in his drone-warfare drama Good Kill or his arms dealer story Lord of War. He’s a writer as well as a director. He scripted Peter Weir’s The Truman Show, which stars Jim Carrey as a man raised in a bubble as a reality-TV project, and he was a writer on Steven Spielberg’s Tom Hanks vehicle The Terminal.

But mostly, Niccol writes and directs his own projects, which he tends to give a…

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Gattaca director Andrew Niccol on conformity, technology, and his new Netflix film Anon
By Tasha Robinson

May 3, 2018 at 08:44AM
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