It’s rare for movies with giants monsters smashing things into things to have so much attention paid to the casting phase, but when those films are Del Toro’s Pacific Rim or Gareth Edward’s Godzilla the movie-blogging world’s collective ears perk up. Both films, one in the can and one that’s yet to shoot a single frame, boast pretty terrific casts. But it’s Edward’s more serious-minded Godzilla, with names like Aaron Johnson, Elisabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston, that most piques my interest. Now, with Variety’s report that Edward and Legendary have their sights set on Three Colors thespian Juliette Binoche, I’m even more intrigued.
Binoche should be recognizable to anyone calling themselves a film fan these past thirty years or so. She garnered an Academy Award for her performance as Hana in Minghella’s The English Patient and was again nominated in 2000 for Chocolat. I don’t suppose it’s too much to ask for Cranston in the most epic man-in-suit Godzilla performance of all time? Opposite a sleek, Binoche-performed Biolante?
Yeah, I figured.
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Tim Kelly, So far I find the cast of Godzilla uninspiring. I hope this is a good Godzilla film, but so far, It looks like he should…Remain in his true…Domain, Japan.
Maybe Bryan Cranston will take control of Godzilla WITH METH! And Aaron Johnson will get the shit kicked out of him.
Casting Bryan Cranston is always an inspired move. Always. If he’s the guy in the suit, then this could be the film crossover/series finale of Breaking Bad with Walt literally becoming a monster!
I think the casting/names they are throwing around is a VERY smart move. The general going public goes to movies like this for the spectacle, and the cynical hardened movie geek stay away, or complain at how DUMB they are. By hiring heavy weights like Cranston and Binoche (well, if not heavy weight than SERIOUSLY well respected) to keep the human element in check, they have both those ends covered. This suddenly went from “i’ll wait till it’s been out a week or so and see it at a matinee” to “i am now following the production of this” and look forward to any news that comes out of this. The footage they showed a while back at the Con never leaked did it?
Solid acting? Yes please! Solid Darabont script? Yes Please! Giant monsters fighting? Yes fuckin please! Massive amounts of civilian casualties? Oh go on then…
I try to keep my expectations low but they keep making good decisions, Hollyweird is freaking me out!
The better the cast gets, the more likely that this could be a transcendent Godzilla movie and may actually do something that most giant monster movies fail to do…be scary.
“In 2014, Bryan Cranston. is. GODZILLA.”
As a fan of both the Big G and Cranston, stop toying with my emotions, Mr. Kelly.
This is sounding awfully exciting. The only thing it needs is Cranston riding astride Godzilla’s head frill wearing nothing but his tighty-whities.
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