After the blockbuster, billion-dollar success of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story you might have expected to see a lot more of Gareth Edwards. Maybe not in the galaxy far, far away but certainly out in the wider world of cinema but instead it all went quiet, until now. With the imminent arrival of The Creator, Edwards returns to big screen action and speaking with SFX Magazine he explains why he took such a protracted – but self-imposed – break from the medium he loves so much.
“I needed to get off the merry-go-round, do you know what I mean? In Hollywood, you can get stuck on the hamster wheel, or whatever analogy you want to use. I just wanted to get off and have a break to take some time thinking about the next thing.”
“I got to make a very low-budget science fiction film with Monsters, and I realized there were some serious advantages to having no money. It was kind of a shock to have all the money you could ever want, and still be limited. I felt like if I could somehow get that big bag of cash and send it back in time to me when I was making Monsters, the possibilities would have been infinite. And so, in a weird way, I was trying to find that kind of scenario again. I was as much interested in the process of how to make the film as I was the idea.”
We’re hoping to speak with Gareth and ILM in the near future about The Creator, so stay tuned to the site and to Fantha Tracks Radio for more.
