The Creator has been a long time coming for director Gareth Ed🔯wards, who has been working on his AI sci-fi movie for a few years now. Set during a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence, the movie follows one man who’s tasked with discovering a mysterious weapon that could end the war and all of mankind.
However, before he began work on the sci-fi epic, Edwards took a bit of a career gap after helming the Star Wars prequel 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rogue One in 2016. "I needed to get off the merry-go-round, do you know what I mean?" Edwards says of the break to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, which features The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon on the cover. "In Hollywood, you can get stuck on the hamster wheel, or whatever analogy you want to use. I just wanted to get off and ♚have a break to take some time thinking🐭 about the next thing."
His successes meant there was no industry-imposed "director’s jail" for Edwards to grapple with. Rather, it was an existential one. "I got to make a very low-budget science fiction film with Monsters, and I realized there were some serious advantages to having no m♑oney," he says. "It was kind of a shock to have all the money you could ever want, and still be limited. I felt like if I could somehow get that big bag of cash and send it back in time to me when I was making Monsters, the possibilities would have been infinite. And so, in a weir♍d way, I was trying to find that kind of scenario again. I was as much interested in the process of how to make the film as I was the idea."
The Creator forms a bridge between his low-budget roots and big studio backing for Edwards, who has previously opened up about how they 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:used guerilla filmmaking methods to tell this story. Starring John David Was𝔉hington, 🍌Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, and Allison Janney, The Creator arrives in cinemas on September 29.
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