Like most directors of his generation, Gareth Edwards is a student of Steven Spielberg’s films.
The unassuming British filmmaker has echoed Spielberg ever since his low-budget 2010 debut Monsters, crafting thoughtful, big-scale spectacles.
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.
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.