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Gareth Edwards Explains How He Created Monsters

Gareth Edwards's Monsters has impressed audiences since it debuted at the L.A. Film Festival, and was produced for only a $15,000 dollar budget, which was only possible because Edwards worked as writer, director, director of photography, and visual effects designer on the project.

Monsters follows a a photojournalist (Scoot McNairy) as he escorts his publisher's daughter (Whitney Able) through a quarantined area in Mexico filled with giant alien creatures. Edwards told Fangoria how he came up with the idea for the movie.

It was really a concept in search of a story, to start with. I was on holiday and watching these fisherman pull in a net from the ocean, and I just thought, "Wouldn’t it be funny if when they finally pulled this thing out of the water, it was this massive sea creature?" Obviously, the men weren’t actually reacting to anything, just pulling the net in, and it was like, "That would make an interesting premise—you have this crazy situation, but nobody reacts to it at all; it’s years down the line, and everyone’s gotten used to it."

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