Gareth Edwards' The Creator Came To Him During Star Wars: Rogue One

After bringing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Godzilla to the big screen, director Gareth Edwards will next present an original idea rather than another entry in a massive franchise. The Creator, set in the future, essentially boils down to a war between humanity and AI, with John David Washington starring as a former special forces operative enlisted to hunt down a potentially war-ending weapon. That plan goes awry when he learns the weapon in question is actually an AI made to resemble a child.

It’s hard to argue this movie could have been timed better, given the current WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and the role artificial intelligence plays in the negotiations. Still, this is an idea Edwards first started putting together back when he was still working on Rogue One.

“I got the idea, actually, it was on the publicity tour for [Star Wars: Rogue One],” the co-writer/director revealed to GameSpot at San Diego Comic-Con. “And [my girlfriend and I] had some time off and ended up driving–my girlfriend’s from Iowa–we drove across the country for a few days.”

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