Rogue One director Gareth Edwards reveals what he'd do differently if he helmed another franchise
Exclusive: Gareth Edwards tells GamesRadar+ how The Creator🎃 changed his perspective on making big studio movies

Gareth Edwards’ new movie 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Creator is an anomaly to modern studio filmmaking. While financed by the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios, the new original sci-fi w🌺as made for just $80 million, a fraction of the costs of other similar blockbusters.
The secret, Edwards tells GamesRadar+, is bringing the filmmaking tecꦰhniques he honed making his debut feature Monsꦗters to the movie. This ജinvolved filming everything on location and using small shoots wh𝕴ere 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 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Rogue One and Godzilla.
"I think [there are] pros and cons," Edwards replies about potentially returning 𒈔to 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 successes. So yeah, if I can combine both of those theꦫn maybe that's the sweet spot."
Back in 2016, there were reports that Rogue One screenwriter Tony Gilroy took over fr൩om Edwards to handle reshoots on the Star Wars prequel. Addressing his experience on the film recently, the director shared he had 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:no haꦚrd feelings over his tim🧜e on Rogue One, and inst💖ead felt incredibly lucky to be involved.
The Creator, which is out in cinemas now, is set in a near future where Artific⛄ial I𝕴ntelligence and humans are at war. A former special forces soldier is tasked with finding the architect of the AI and destroying the world-ending weapon they’ve created. The problem is that the weapon has taken the form of a young child.
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For more on the movie, check out our conversations with Edwards about using 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:guerilla filmmaking techniques and why he took 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a break fro𒁃m directing after Rogue One.

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