Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards on following in Steven Spielberg's footsteps
The unassuming British filmmaker has echoed Spielberg ever since his low-budget 2010 debut Monsters, crafting thoughtful, big-scale spectacles.
His 2014 blockbuster Godzilla saw him deliver the ultimate monster movie as he re-birthed
the Japanese kaiju tradition
He followed that in 2016 with the acclaimed Star Wars spin-off tale
Rogue One . In 2023, he made
The Creator , a beautiful sci-fi film that felt emotionally tied to Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
Edwards was exhausted after The Creator, but then came the offer of a lifetime: Spielberg and producer Frank Marshall wanted him to continue their beloved Jurassic franchise.
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Ever since Spielberg's 1993 classic Jurassic Park, adapted from Michael Crichton's novel about a billionaire tycoon who plays God by breeding dinosaurs from fossilised DNA, the series has become one of the most popular in Hollywood history.
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