It’s been a long seven-year wait for a new Gareth Edwards movie. Back in 2016, the British director behind Monsters and Godzilla set the bar for all Star Wars films this side of the original trilogy – Rogue One landed as straight and true as Luke’s torpedo shot into the Death Star’s thermal exhaust port.
But now he’s back back with The Creator – which appears on the cover of the new issue of Total Film magazine. Edwards’ fourth film is an original IP science-fiction blockbuster that bursts with scale, spectacle, and set-pieces… and also soul. Impressively, while all-out war is being waged between humans and AI in the future, the movie is also locked and loaded with layered characterisation, profound, head-scratching ideas, and lived-in, authentic environments.
