“I read that whole conversation, I got sucked into it.
It was very unnerving, and I didn’t plan any of my shots.
We were screwed that day on filming, because I got so distracted by this conversation.
John David Washington in ‘The Creator.'.20th Century Studios
I guess everyone did.”
But during the years that Edwards and his collaborators were working onThe Creator, A.I.
Why would anyone do that?'"
A troop transport in ‘The Creator.'.20th Century Studios
“It was a real hurdle getting everybody over that line to see why A.I.
might be a bad thing.
“It just makes the film more resonant, I think.
“Lone Wolf and Cubwas a massive inspiration,” Edwards confirms.
So, I did the research, I got all the films and the manga books.”
Edwards tried to bring that dynamic into his first movie, 2010’sMonsters.
“I pitched it as a soldier taking a little child back to America,” he recalls.
But I always kept it in my pocket.
Even with its disparate influences,The Creatorstill produces remarkably unique imagery.
Of particular note is the NORAD orbital platform that the human military uses to fire on A.I.
strongholds from the sky, as see in EW’s exclusive clip above.
We take that off the table straight away.
Punching a hole right through their head was one of the clearest ways to do that.”
“For the actual robots,” Edwards continues, “we did all kinds of tricks.
That gave us a lot of little good shapes for eyes and heads and stuff.
It was my favorite thing.
I’ve spent three years designing robots.”
See the results of that labor whenThe Creatorhits theaters this Friday.
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