The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2023 - Issue 33

bitefilms ohn David Washington has a thing for sci-fi thrill- ers, having previously starred in Tenet three years ago. The former professional football player also acted in Spike Lee’s 2018 crime film BlacKkKlansman and as a student in a Harlem classroom in the director’s 1992 feature film Malcolm X. The Creator, a thought-pro- voking action thriller directed by Gareth Edwards is placed amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence. Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent, is griev- ing the disappearance of his wife, Maya. However, he is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysteri- ous weapon with the power to end the war and humanity itself. The agent and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory only to discover the world-ending weapon he’s instructed to destroy an AI in the form of a young child. In a similar world-ending scenario as The Terminator , this apocalyptic thriller pulls at the heartstrings, espe- cially with a child-like entity involved. Yet, it questions whether AI intendancies will threaten our existence in reality. John David Washington plays the role of Joshua; Gemma Chan as his wife, Maya; Ken Watanabe as Harun; Sturgill Simpson as Shipley; newcomer Made- leine Yuna Voyles as the AI child Alfie, Academy Award winner Allison Janney as Howell and Ralph Ineson as General Andrews. Release Date: 29 September 2023 www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-creator THE CREATOR