Tag: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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Will we ever get to see Gareth Edwards’ cut of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story?
Rumours that the director was replaced by Tony Gilroy are rife online. Despite the film-maker finally starting to push back on the hearsay, it seems we may never know what happenedFor fans of the halcyon days of Star Wars – that glorious blend of analogue retro-future-tech, cod-Japanese mysticism and swishy laser swords – 2016’s Rogue…
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‘The Creator’ Effects Team Breaks Down That Terrifying Tank Attack Sequence
Gareth Edwards’ “The Creator” was a resourceful sci-fi endeavor with an $80 million production budget, but its visuals are on par with epic blockbusters that cost three times that amount. Rather than shoot on a studio backlot, the filmmaker behind “Godzilla” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” opted to shoot in eight different countries,…
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The Creator’s Box Office Failure Says A Lot About The State Of Sci-Fi Cinema
Director Gareth Edwards returned after a nearly seven-year absence with his original sci-fi film “The Creator” over the weekend. It was his first movie since 2016’s $1 billion hit “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” which was his second hit franchise blockbuster in a row following 2014’s “Godzilla.” Unfortunately, it looks like his attempt to…
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‘Rogue One’ Director Says ‘There Is So Much Inaccuracy’ Surrounding Making of ‘Star Wars’ Prequel: ‘We All Worked Together Until the Entire Last Minute’
“Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” director Gareth Edwards is once again addressing the multiple reports about the 2016 film requiring extensive reshoots overseen by Tony Gilroy (the eventual “Andor” creator was hired by Lucasfilm to join the “Rogue One” team in June 2016).On a recent episode of Kcrw’s “The Business” podcast, Edwards claimed “there…
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‘The Creator’ VFX Supervisors Talk AI, New Technology & Ilm’s Involvement
In Gareth Edwards’ (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) The Creator, the director utilizes filmmaking techniques he’s honed over the years since his first indie feature, Monsters. Starring John David Washington and an ensemble cast, this sci-fi epic’s journey to the big screen has the potential to change the game in Hollywood, and Edwards didn’t…
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‘The Creator’ Cinematographer Reveals the Most Complicated Scene to Film
The Creator introduces audiences to a new world of science fiction from the mind of Gareth Edwards, the director behind Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. In the new movie, John David Washington stars as Joshua, a former special forces agent with a very special mission. In a dystopian future where artificial intelligence has pushed…
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How Gareth Edwards Kept ‘The Creator’ From Costing $200 Million
One of the most impressive aspects of The Creator is the ambitious landscape of the movie and how it was done with a limited budget. In an era in which blockbuster movies are greenlit with astronomical budgets, director Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) managed to bring his vision to life with a…
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Gareth Edwards Said He Was Offered 2 ‘Star Wars’ Films & Says Lucasfilm May Still Want To Make The One He Passed On
So, filmmaker Gareth Edwards is doing the interview round for his latest sci-fi extravaganza, “The Creator,” starring John David Washington. It’s a movie heavily indebted to “Blade Runner,” “Apocalypse Now,” and even “Star Wars” (read our review here). And the question on many people’s minds might be: will he talk about what actually happened during…
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Does ‘The Creator’ Have an End-Credits Scene?
The Creator marks a rare occasion in Hollywood: a completely original science fiction film that also happens to cost a fraction of other major blockbusters. Director Gareth Edwards is no stranger to spectacle, having kicked off Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse in 2014 with Godzilla and delivering arguably one of the best Star Wars films with Rogue…
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The Creator review – vast and exhilarating sci-fi actioner rages against the AI machine
Director Gareth Edwards draws together the many strands of our current AI debate with tremendous boldness, conjuring up an intriguing and stimulating spectacleThis colossal sci-fi thriller from Gareth Edwards features John David Washington and Gemma Chan in vast mysterious panoramas and vertiginous vistas which deserve to be shown at Imax-plus scale; it also shows that…