Even the most ardent comic book movie fans eventually need to watch something a bit different in the theater.
Enter British director Gareth Edwards' (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) The Creator, set to hit theaters this September.
As conversations about superhero movie fatigue begin to pick up steam, timely movies like The Creator are vital as such films tend to reinvigorate film sensibilities and remind audiences what genre films can deliver when they have a clear vision and purpose, as opposed to relying on tried and true film cliches.
The Creator is doubly timely as the conversation around AI is currently dominating several real-world industries and controversies, including the ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes in Hollywood.
Those strikes are centered around protecting actors and writers from cost-cutting studio execs, who would like to use artificial intelligence to use an actor's likeness for eternity or use AI to write new or modify existing scripts.
Speaking to Collider about The Creator, Edwards shared, "Basically the movie was always like, the world is divided in two. Half the world has banned AI. They hate it. It's wrong. It caused some real big problems. And the other half of the movie's embraced it, carried on developing it to the point where it's now human-like. So it's kind of an east-versus-west situation at the start."
The Creator arrives in theaters and IMAX on September 29.
The cast includes John David Washington as Caleb, Gemma Chan as Ava, Ken Watanabe as Professor Seki, Sturgill Simpson as The Musician, Madeleine Yuna Voyles as Young Ava, and Allison Janney as Dr. Ellen Shaw.
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.