“My favorite cinema is very visually driven,” says Edwards in the featurette. “It’s not like a play; it’s like a dream of pure emotion. This film’s a melting pot of things I grew up loving. A Vietnam movie mixed with robotic sci-fi.”

“Gareth has the ability to inject compassion into the sci-fi genre that usually leans on spectacle and danger,” says star John David Washington. “What jumped out was the magical realism that he was able to execute - the depth and emotion that he was able to capture in every frame.”