The new Godzilla movie is directed by Gareth Edwards, who directed the 2010 indie hit "Monsters" and stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Sally Hawkins and Ken Watanabe. GODZILLA gets unleashed May 16, 2014. [more after the jump]
This new Godzilla movie is a reboot of the Godzilla film franchise. The film retells the origin of Godzilla in modern times, depicting his first encounter with humanity as he goes head to toe with two other giant monsters.
The film was produced by Legendary Pictures and will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures worldwide, except for Japan where it will be distributed by Toho.
Screenwriter Frank Darabont in interviews described his plans for Godzilla as returning it to a "terrifying force of nature". The film will add a "very compelling human drama" and that Godzilla would be tied to a "different contemporary issue" rather than the original atomic bomb testing. Director Gareth Edwards, at a promotional appearance in 2012, described the tone of the film. "We're just going to take it really seriously. I've wanted to see this movie this way all my life. Imagine if this really happened – as crazy as it sounds – what would it really be like?" In January, 2013, it was reported that Warner Brothers, in a meeting for advertisers, revealed that the film would contain two new monsters in addition to Godzilla, and the plot of the film would revolve around the story of an individual soldier. Star Elizabeth Olsen described the film as "definitely not lighthearted. It's kind of going back to its roots of the original Japanese film."
Godzilla began at Comic-Con this year with stern archive footage of a nuclear explosion, before showing us last year's clips of utter devastation on a scale that shocks even after this summer's blockbusters. There was a train squashed beneath a monster foot; a string of skyscrapers with a huge hole through the middle, as though something had just bulled through. Notably, however, there were bodies lying visibly in the streets; this is not destruction that's free of consequence.
Then, amid the smoke and debris, we saw the monster himself. Short snout, more like the length of a lion than a crocodile, and a heavily ridged back like a triceratops.
"I actually expected it to feel different," said Elizabeth Olsen, who plays a nurse and mother. "We never had to wait two hours for a set-up; we were on set all the time going at it. It was just like an independent film."
"I think what Gareth brings is an intimacy and a family," said Aaron Taylor Johnson. "It happened to be a big-budget art film, the way he wanted to shoot and direct it. It's got a lot of emotion. I think it's going to be beautiful."
What is making many of us confident of this project is that Gareth Edwards never seem to neglect and acknowledge Toho, the Japanese company from which Godzilla was first created. He says "We worked very closely with Toho; it was always our intention that this feel very close to the Toho legacy, that this feel like a real Godzilla movie. We had a wishlist of actors we wanted to work with - they didn't agree so I got stuck with these guys (laughs) - but you really have to view this as your artistic passion project, not just a blockbuster movie."
Godzilla is out on May 16, 2014.
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