The Creator director says watch these movies next
While creating the new sci-fi action epic The Creator, director Gareth Edwards drew on his lifelong love of science fiction and cinema to fashion a world that walks the lines between spirituality and technology, artifice and emotion.
“I thought this might be the last film I ever get to make,” Edwards said in an interview with io9. “So I just threw in everything I loved about sci-fi movies and then tried to stir the pot enough, pull out something, and combine it in a way that felt like its own movie.”
The evidence is plain to see in the film itself — a war movie à la Apocalypse Now populated by sentient robots pitted in an existential battle for survival with their human creators. The Creator is the kind of movie that inspires a deep dive into those films, tracing the root of their influence on Edwards in the way that their themes and images echo throughout its world.
We’ve pulled together a list of each of the movies Gareth Edwards has cited as an influence on the world-building of The Creator and where they are available to stream. From Akira to Paper Moon and beyond, here are the movies to watch next if you loved The Creator.
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Cast: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Where to watch: Hulu
It’s not hard to see the parallels: Both Akira and The Creator take place in the wake of an apocalyptic event that resulted in the destruction of one of the most populous cities on the planet, both take place in futuristic cities, and both predominantly focus on childlike characters gifted with immense telepathic abilities that make them the target of multiple competing factions. If that weren’t enough, The Creator has NOMAD, a low-orbit nuclear warship, that bears more than a passing resemblance to SOL,
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