Gareth Edwards, the director of Star Wars spin-off Rogue One, is ready to release The Creator. With this film, the acclaimed filmmaker returns to the field of science fiction, a genre that he has already proven to master to a thousand wonders. On this occasion, he will address the very current topic of Artificial Intelligence. In recent months, we have seen how this technology has expanded in dozens of areas.
With this convulsive social context, Edwards presents a futuristic world in which humans and AI have been able to coexist peacefully for decades since the 20th century. But at one point, everything changed, and war broke out forever, being led by the United States. The project is quite ambitious on the part of 20th Century Studios, having invested an estimated budget of around $86 million in The Creator. A figure well below the current macro-productions, but still remarkable. With this, Edward raises a whole universe that aims to dazzle fans of this type of film both with its futuristic narrative and its visual apparatus.
But undoubtedly the main ingredient of The Creator is the story of Joshua and Alphie, the protagonists played by John David Washington and little Madeleine Yuna Voyles. In the case of him, his character is an American soldier who has the trask of destroying the latest and deadliest Artificial Intelligence weapon. However, upon finding her, he discovers that she is a six-year-old girl which name is Alphie. This causes Joshua many moral doubts about what he should do. Follow orders or be guided by his values. Thus, little by little the bond becomes stronger and stronger. "Although in the movies robots are usually cold, we kept Alphie's humanity," explains Edwards.
