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03.10.2023 - 18:05 / polygon.com / Gareth Edwards
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, the orbiting laser cannon that plays a prominent role in both the original manga and anime adaptation of Akira.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen
Where to watch: Available to rent on Amazon, Apple, and Vudu
Filmed over 16 arduous months in the Philippines, Coppola’s film is a masterpiece of majestic scope and perilous psychological depth, with large operatic battle scenes that capture the destruction and chaos of the Vietnam War in 360-degree detail. The influence of those aspects of Apocalypse Now is acutely evident in the battle scenes of The Creator, as futuristic tanks and flying warships barrel across the plains of Southeast Asia in their campaign to eradicate all sentient artificial life from the face of the planet.
Director: Ron Fricke
Where to watch: Peacock, Plex, Tubi, Freevee
Arguably the most unique film cited as an inspiration for Edwards is Baraka, an experimental documentary from director Ron Fricke. Fricke, who previously served
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