“The Creator” Oscar-Nominated Sound Team on Blending Retro-Futurism, Robot Monks, & the Didgeridoo

The Creator‘s Oscar-nominated supervising sound editors, Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn, had a dream experience creating the soundscape for director Gareth Edwards‘ vision of a nightmarish future. The timing of the film couldn’t have been better—The Creator is set at a point in human history where there’s an outright war between humanity and ...

By Bryan Abrams  |  February 27, 2024

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“The Creator” Production Designer James Clyne Fabricates the Future

When writer-director Gareth Edwards finished Rogue One, he took a road trip to his girlfriend’s home in Iowa. Along the way, he noticed a Japanese factory in the middle of a cornfield and started dreaming up a new story. Seven years later, Edwards has delivered The Creator. Set in 2065, the movie pits American humans ...

By Hugh Hart  |  September 28, 2023
Two New “The Creator” TV Spots Hype the Coming Release of Gareth Edwards’ Sci-Fi Epic

Now that the early reactions have confirmed that writer/director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One) has pulled off something special with The Creator, all eyes will be on the full reviews when the embargo is lifted this week. Edwards’s new film then premieres this Friday, September 29, in what is one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the ...

By The Credits  |  September 25, 2023
“The Creator” First Reactions: A Stunning, Emotionally Resonant Original Sci-Fi Saga

It sounds as if writer/director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One) has pulled it off. Delivering a huge, original sci-fi blockbuster is a hard thing to do in the best of times, and especially hard in a climate that prefers its blockbusters to have built-in IP, yet the first reactions to his latest film, The Creator, ...

By The Credits  |  September 19, 2023
Final “The Creator” Trailer Finds John David Washington in a Fight for the Fate of Humanity

Writer/director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One) is as comfortable with massive stakes as he is with heady sci-fi stories populated with complex characters. With The Creator, he’s tackling both as he turns his attention to our growing unease with the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence in a film that puts a human face on the algorithms of ...

By The Credits  |  September 13, 2023
A New Special Look at “The Creator” Probes Gareth Edwards’ Humans vs Artificial Intelligence Epic

A new special look at The Creator, from writer/director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One), zeroes in on the face of a war between human beings and artificial intelligence. That face, distressingly, belongs to a little girl, Alphie (Madeleine Yuna Voyles), who reveals, with just a slight turn of her head, to be anything but your ...

By The Credits  |  September 7, 2023
The Official “The Creator” Trailer Reveals Gareth Edwards’ AI-Centered Sci-Fi Epic

The official trailer for co-writer and director Gareth Edwards’ The Creator has arrived. It’s our longest look yet at Edwards’ exceedingly topical film, which features a war between humanity and artificial intelligence, a classic sci-fi trope that has been given fresh relevance thanks to the recent release of the AI-backed ChatGPT and the growing concern across governments ...

By The Credits  |  July 18, 2023
“The Creator” Trailer Finds John David Washington Fighting an AI Superpower

The first trailer for Gareth Edwards’ The Creator has arrived, a fresh look at a growing concern that you can read and hear about just about every day, whether it’s in major newspapers, magazines, on Reddit threads, podcasts, or in research papers. We’re talking about artificial intelligence, once the concern mainly of scientists, futurists, and Hollywood execs ...

By The Credits  |  May 18, 2023