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Where Was 'The Creator' Movie Filmed?
04.10.2023 - 16:39 / cntraveler.com
The world of The Creator feels familiar and alien at the same time. The film brings viewers to a near-future where artificial intelligence exists alongside humans as both working robots and humanoid simulants. The US government seeks to eradicate all non-humans after a nuclear explosion devastates Los Angeles, hunting them down with a space station defense system called NOMAD. As the story unfolds, the audience follows Sergeant Joshua Taylor (John David Washington) as he searches for the creator of the AI, the mysterious Nirmata, and ends up on the run with a young simulant named Alphie (Madeleine Yuna Voyles), who may be the key to stopping the war.
To pitch the film, director Gareth Edwards shot landscapes around Southeast Asia and then augmented the footage with sci-fi VFX. “At the end of it, we had this little 10-minute short that showed not only the look of our movie but the process of how to make that movie happen,” explains production designer James Clyne. “There are actually a couple shots in the final movie that we pulled from that short.”
Madeline Voyles stars as Alphie, a young simulant with mysterious powers over technology.
The action largely takes place in a fictional country called New Asia, a combination of present-day Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia, although production primarily took place in Thailand. The focus was on utilizing real locations as much as possible—in fact, only a few scenes ended up being shot on soundstages.
“Throughout our movie, hopefully the audience feels like they're in a real place, but then they’re confused because they see robots walking around and futuristic vehicles and buildings,” Clyne says. “It's all about them hopefully not knowing what's real and what's not real.”
Here Clyne discusses how actual locations around Thailand became New Asia in 2065.
Director Gareth Edwards wanted to shoot The Creator in a tropical landscape, lush and decidedly on Earth—not typically seen in sci-fi.
Why did Gareth want to use as many real-world locations as possible to make a futuristic sci-fi film?
That came from Gareth’s desire to shoot in exotic locations that are not other planets. We’re not on Jupiter. We’re not on some fictional planet. We’re on Earth and because we’re on Earth, the question was: Where can we go that’s exotic and beautiful and new and fresh for sci-fi? In sci-fi, we’re used to being on a moon base or a crazy planet. Iceland is used a lot because it looks so desolate and otherworldly. We wanted to go the opposite direction, where it’s lush and green. And then we could offset all that natural beauty with futuristic architecture and vehicles.
Was Thailand always your main focus or did you look at other countries in Southeast Asia?
We had to
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