“The Creator” is a gargantuan experience, packed with violence, intensity and the kind of dramatic, intricately detailed world-building that audiences expect from films of this scope. But it also cost a fraction of nearly every other giant studio film like it this year, several of which ballooned to $300 million and beyond. After directing two equally massive studio tentpoles with far greater budgets following “Monsters” — 2014’s “Godzilla” and 2016’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” — Edwards became convinced that there had to be a better, leaner way to make studio movies on a blockbuster scale.
Source: https://variety.com/2023/film/features/the-creator-gareth-edwards-rogue-one-interview-1235728286/