The Beach (novel) only day-dream about". "The Beach" was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet. The novel was at one point reportedly being considered for adaptation to a television series by "The Secret Circle" developer Andrew Miller. The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000,
The Beach (novel) a huge amount of cannabis to immobilize the group. Richard and his friends are about to slip away when the Thai farmers arrive. The farmers threaten all of them with guns as they believe that the beach dwellers invited the recent arrivals. The farmers beat up Richard, while leaving the bloodied corpses of the American/German backpackers as a warning. At the sight of this, the extremely intoxicated group experience a collective mental breakdown and start to rip the corpses apart in a frenzy. Sal discovers that Richard has spread the secret of the beach when she picks up the map