We’ll have to wait at least two more years until Avatar 3 hits theaters. The hotly anticipated sequel is currently planned for December 2025. However, a look at Avatar history shows that we should almost never trust a date. Postponements of cinema releases are the order of the day.
But that’s not a bad thing, because with The Creator, a perfect sci-fi replacement is currently conquering the big screen.
On the one hand, Gareth Edwards’ new film feels like a brainchild of James Cameron’s science fiction cinema. On the other hand, it carries many ideas that Gareth Edwards has already explored in his previous films: Monsters (2010), Godzilla (2014) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). The result is one of the biggest blockbuster of the year.
Sci-Fi highlight: An AI war breaks out in The Creator, uniting Avatar and Rogue One
The Creator takes us to the year 2070 and presents us with a dystopian version of our earth, which is determined by a war between humans and machines. The West is afraid of artificial intelligence sometimes in human form wandering around the planet and does everything in its power to wipe them out. Last but not least, a powerful AI weapon could change the course of history forever.
You can watch the trailer for The Creator here:
The Creator – Trailer 2 (English) HD
The plot of The Creator follows former soldier Joshua (John David Washington), who is tasked with destroying this weapon on behalf of the West. As it turns out, however, it is an android child. Instead of following his mission, Joshua develops a protective instinct for the creature that consists of metal parts and yet looks at him with deeply human eyes.
When it comes to the inspiration behind The Creator, Edwards often cites Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner. Steven Spielberg’s films also had a great influence on him as a director. Without ET, The Creator might never have happened. The role models are clearly visible. But even more exciting is the fusion that is Edwards’ own work with James Cameron’s cinema enters. Many parallels can be discovered here.
The dark AI version of Avatar: The Creator often feels like a James Cameron film
Cameron has become famous for science fiction films such as Aliens and Terminator, which have a great fascination for him technological progress within itself – even if it ends in a robot apocalypse. In Avatar he combines this fascination with the wonder of nature, which appears in the form of the alien planet Pandora and is threatened by humans with their monstrous machines.
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The Creator
Gigantic spaceships, combat robots and technology with which people can be transported into the bodies of aliens – the blue Na’vi: based on this premise, a war film develops Motives of colonialism and imperialism picks up. A military power conquers a foreign world and enriches itself from the natural resources found there at the expense of the indigenous population.
War, technology and nature are also three pillars on which The Creator is built. At Edwards, people from a huge space station, the Nomad, attack the regions where AI activities are suspected. With a larger-than-life crosshairs Entire areas of the country are targeted. Cameron, in his boldest sci-fi vision, couldn’t have been more graphic about the destruction.
The war film, including a flying weapon of mass destruction, was already in Edwards’ Rogue One and partly also in Godzilla. What he lives out even more in The Creator is that Exploring nature. His camera looks longingly at all the places, shortly before they are targeted by the Nomad and a bluish laser beam destroys the environment in which The Creator prefers to lose himself.
The Creator has been running since then September 28, 2023 in German cinemas.
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