Creator: Did you know him? This actor also played in the last Asterix

So it took a little less than seven years before we found Gareth Edwards in the movies. The English director hasn’t signed on for a film since Rogue One, his Star Wars spin-off that was released in late 2016 and grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide.

So the creator marks his grand return, and he remains in science fiction. Still inspired by Star Wars, as he told us during a visit to Paris. The feature film, which hits theaters on September 27, follows a soldier who is sent to destroy a weapon created by artificial intelligence and discovers that it has the appearance of a child.

Shot at eye level, one of Garrett Edwards’ trademarks, The Creator looks at the subject of artificial intelligence with nuance and a beautiful cast led by John David Washington. The Tenet star is up against another Christopher Nolan regular Ken Watanabe (Batman Begins, Inception) here, as well as Gemma Chan and Allison Janney.

More or less well-known faces to the general public, among which there is an actor whom we see in the second half of the story: the interpreter of Commander Dawes, who is part of the Western camp and whose face will seem familiar. If so, you are one of the 4,622,012 viewers who saw Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom in theaters. Or those who have just discovered it on video or CANAL+.

Because it was Leana Chia, a French actress, who played the bodyguard of Princess Fu Yi (Julie Chen) in Guillaume Canet’s film. The third biggest success of 2023 in French cinemas, after Super Mario Bros. And Barbie, and right in front of Oppenheimer, who could soon overtake him.

Unknown to the general public a year ago, Leana Chia also starred in Steve Acciepo’s The Sandman in February. And it has its first international experience thanks to creator Gareth Edwards’ original blockbuster, whose influence is felt but which is neither a sequel nor an adaptation.