Rogue One director Gareth Edwards reveals what he'd do differently if he helmed another franchise

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Gareth Edwards’ new movie The Creator is an anomaly to modern studio filmmaking. While financed by the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios, the new original sci-fi was made for just $80 million, a fraction of the costs of other similar blockbusters. 

The secret, Edwards tells GamesRadar+, is bringing the filmmaking techniques he honed making his debut feature Monsters to the movie. This involved filming everything on location and using small shoots where possible, before building VFX on top of the footage.

All in all, the final movie is a ringing endorsement of what can be achieved when you bend the rules of studio filmmaking. It’s also something the director says he’ll bring with him going forward when we quizzed him about if he’d ever helm another franchise after his work on Star Wars prequel Rogue One and Godzilla. 

"I think [there are] pros and cons," Edwards replies about potentially returning to a film like that. "The pros of doing something original is you don't have this massive fan base, watching you like a hawk telling you they've ruined their childhoods, you know? I mean, but the downside is, then you finish a film and you don't have this built-in fan base and you have to like to go, 'Please come see the movie and educate everybody.' 

"So yeah, I don’t know which is better in that sense. If I did go back to a franchise and I hate that word, it sounds so corporate. But if I did go back to something I grew up loving, I would love to do it more like [The Creator]. I don't want to go back to a studio and have a green screen and things like that. I want to go to real-world places and shoot for real and a lot of my favorite things about this movie are when we did things differently. It led to a lot of little