When Rogue One director Gareth Edwards and his co-writer Chris Weitz started work on The Creator in 2020, they had little idea that AI would be such a talking point as their movie prepared to land in 2023.
Certainly, AI has featured in numerous sci-fi films and shows before, going back decades, but this year has seen an explosion in the public consciousness, with ChatGPT now a water-cooler conversation. "It was a total fluke," says Edwards in the new issue of Total Film magazine, which is out on newsstands on Thursday, July 20.
