When the first trailer for The Creator was released, some viewers pointed out that the movie looks like director Gareth Edwards' version of Terminator 2: Judgment Day – both feature war against AI, a nuke, and a child under threat.
But Edwards, a huge fan of James Cameron ("I grew up watching his films to death"), gently quashes those theories, saying the trailer communicates the first few minutes of The Creator; the movie takes different turns from there. More of an influence, he explains in the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, July 20, is Stephen Frears' 1984 thriller The Hit.
