Creator: How Star Wars Influenced Rogue One Director’s New Sci-Fi Movie?

First there were the monsters and Godzilla they were naming. Then sci-fi: Rogue One, its billion-dollar Star Wars spin-off at the global box office, and, today, The Creator. We don’t really know if it’s intentional or not, but, like the Sith Lords, Gareth Edwards movies come in pairs. Visually and in their themes, with a distinct flavor of the apocalypse.

Seven years after exploring the galaxy far, far away created by George Lucas (with Tony Gilroy to thank for numerous Rogue One shoots), the English director returns to Earth. And it takes us into the future to reflect on our present with this story of the war between humans and machines against the backdrop of artificial intelligence.

By recreating recent conflicts with the United States and the Vietnam War, as most of the story takes place in Asia, Gareth Edwards follows in the footsteps of George Lucas, who did the same in the first episode of Star Wars. Saga, in 1977.

I fear AI less than what humans might do with it

Visiting Paris to promote his fourth feature film, Gareth Edwards discusses with us his vision for AI and the making of this opus, as well as the way in which the first Star Wars trilogy, even more than Rogue One, was inspired by The. the creator. In which we still find a way to touch it, to capture it at eye level.

Starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe and Allison Janney, The Creator hits our screens this Wednesday, September 27. We hope it will take less than seven years before Gareth Edwards returns.

Comments collected by Maximilien Pierrette in Paris on September 21, 2023 – Editing by Alexandre Ear