Courtesy of THR:
Asked to explain his astonishing career arc, going from an indie sci-fi feature for $500,000, 2010’s Monsters, to re-booting one of the great monster creations, Godzilla, and now doing a Star Wars spinoff, director Gareth Edwards said: “If I was in the audience at film school, looking at me now, I would hate me. I never could have predicted it this way.”
Edwards was speaking to a packed auditorium of film students at Beijing Film Academy, where he was giving a talk with legendary Chinese director Zhang Yimou before attending the China premiere of Godzilla, where he pressed flesh with another iconic Chinese director, Hong Kong’s John Woo.
“I am very, very lucky, living in a dream job at the moment. I’m not allowed to talk about it, it’s all very secretive, but it’s a dream come true. Star Wars is the reason I got into film-making, so to be given this opportunity is like a dream,” he said. “Now the pressure is on.”
Not a lot new said but interesting nonetheless.