The Creator is Star Wars Rogue One director’s latest original sci-fi epic

Wide vistas, strange space stations, mushroom clouds on the horizon — the latest trailer for The CreatorShows that Rogue One – A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards didn’t leave his sense of sci-fi awe back in the galaxy far, far away.

John David WashingtonTenet) and newcomer Madeleine Yuna Voyles star respectively as Joshua, a special forces agent, and Alfie, the mysterious, robot-war-ending weapon he’s been sent to retrieve. The film also stars Gemma Chan and Ken Watanabe. Edwards wrote the screenplay. Rogue One co-writer Chris Weitz based on Edwards’ story.

This is what makes The Creator something quite rare in this era: a theatrical blockbuster sci-fi yarn that’s neither a sequel nor an adaptation. And while it’s clearly pulling on a long tradition of tales that have come before it, I for one welcome this new member of the “grimey robots have a complicated (and metaphorical) relationship with humanity” family of sci-fi film.

The CreatorThis film is set to hit cinemas on 29th September.