In the new issue of SFX magazine, Gareth Edwards explains the need for a career gap after helming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in 2016 and his latest film The Creator stating, “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.”
His successes meant there was no industry-imposed “director’s jail” for Edwards to grapple with. Rather, it was an existential one. “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,” he says. “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.”
The Creator forms a bridge between his low-budget roots and big studio backing for Edwards, who has previously opened up about how they used guerilla filmmaking methods to tell this story. Starring John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe, and Allison Janney, The Creator arrives in cinemas on September 29.
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Read the interview in full in the latest issue of SFX Magazine, available now. The Creator arrives in cinemas on September 29th.
