These last couple of months have seen many a film released with eerie timeliness; Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion seemed to be a direct commentary on the increasingly loud Elon Musk, and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret dropped in theaters just as Florida’s new, heinously archaic sex education curriculum was gaining a tragic amount of strength.
And now, with the conversation surrounding AI becoming more and more alarming with every passing day, now seems a good a team as ever to gear up for The Creator, the upcoming sci-fi action drama about a war between humans and AI, and judging by the film’s brand new trailer, it’s hard to say what side of the argument it will fall on; of course, if its message is as good as these visuals, we have nothing to worry about.
John David Washington leads the cast as Joshua, a solider/insurgent type trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where AI figured out how to use nuclear bombs. When he’s sent on a mission to destroy one of the AI’s weapons, he’s shocked to discover a cybernetic child in its place. Now seemingly torn between his duties as a soldier and those of an organic being capable of empathy, Joshua has quite the fight, both internal and external, ahead of him.
Gemma Chan (Eternals) shores up the rest of the cast alongside Allison Janney, Ken Watanabe, and Ralph Ineson, while Rogue One director Gareth Edwards pulls double duty as the film’s writer-director.
The Creator will release to theaters on Sept. 29; here’s hoping it doesn’t give the computers any bright ideas.
