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Gareth James Edwards (born 13 July 1975) is a British film director and screenwriter. He gained recognition for Monsters (2010), an independent film in which he served as writer, director, cinematographer, and visual effects artist.
Gareth James Edwards was born on June 1, 1975 in the English town of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Growing up, he admired movies such as the 1977 classic "Star Wars", and went on to pursue a film career. He even cites George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as his biggest influences.
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- Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Sir Gareth Owen Edwards CBE (born 12 July 1947) is a Welsh former rugby union player who played scrum-half and has been described by the BBC as "arguably the greatest player ever to don a Welsh jersey".
Feb 24, 2024 · Hollywood director Gareth Edwards has always done things differently. Now his latest film has all the tech heads in Tinseltown talking.
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- 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' (2016) The Star Wars movies made since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 have been divisive, to say the least. Certain movies have their supporters, but others are detested by certain Star Wars fans for a variety of reasons, with the five prequels/sequels made between 2015 and 2019 overall perhaps falling short of Star Wars at its best.
- 'Godzilla' (2014) Four years after making Monsters, Gareth Edwards released a movie about the king of the monsters in 2014's Godzilla. This Hollywood take on the iconic Japanese monster fared much better than the sort of disastrous 1998 Godzilla movie, which tanked the idea of more American-produced movies about the giant radioactive lizard for some years.
- 'The Creator' (2023) Just like with Monsters, 2023's The Creator has been praised a great deal for looking like it cost much more to make than its reported $80 million budget.
- 'Monsters' (2010) With his feature film debut, Monsters, Gareth Edwards took the parts of his earlier films that worked and made a compelling and inventive science fiction/thriller movie.
Sep 20, 2023 · Director Gareth Edwards ("Rogue One," "Godzilla") wanted to escape the "unstoppable machine" of studio filmmaking with his $80 million sci-fi epic, "The Creator."
Sep 28, 2023 · The director of 'Monsters', 'Godzilla' and 'Rogue One' talks about his sci-fi thriller that revolutionized his filmmaking style. He shot everything first and then reverse-engineered the production design and VFX in post, creating a futuristic world with real locations and actors.
