When Monsters came out last year, it instantly became one of my favourite British films of all time. To me, writer and director Gareth Edwards made a masterpiece with his feature debut.
He then signed on to direct Legendary Pictures’ new Godzilla film earlier this year, with David Goyer (The Dark Knight, Blade) currently rewriting the script, and now details of his as-yet-untitled next project he will both write and direct have arisen, /Film report.
Edwards has been working on the project for some time now, coming up with the idea before he made Monsters. But details about it have been kept pretty quiet. In an interview he gave with The Playlist last year, all he really said about it was that,
“it’s an epic human story set in a futuristic world without humanity.”
Now, we’ve got a little bit more to add to that:
“The still untitled project is about a young human child (probably around 5 years old) and a robot who travel across the galaxy in search of mankind’s origin in a world void of humanity and filled with robots.”
And Edwards is pitching the project as,
“a robot Star Wars.”
If, like me, you saw and loved Monsters last year, this is definitely a project to look forward to. Edwards had almost no money to work with on Monsters, and he still managed to create an utterly fantastic film, taking on the visual effects himself. Now, he will hopefully be granted a little more money with which to work, and I can only imagine he’ll come back with yet another incredible film.
Edwards is going to be working alongside Russian producer and director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Wanted, and the forthcoming Apollo 18), who will produce the project with Edwards, which should make for a great match. Script work is still being done for the film, so it could be a little while before we hear more concrete news about when filming can begin, but hopefully production on the project will be starting soon.
