Everyone loves Godzilla. It’s just a fact of modern life, and I imagine we all want more Godzilla movies.
But after being burned so very badly by that one American reboot we won’t speak of, well, hope dimmed a long time ago. When Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures announced they were remaking Godzilla, there was only a smattering of enthusiasm across the Internet. We all remember how this played out before.
But today, THR’s Heat Vision broke some pretty awesome news: Gareth Edwards, director of Monsters, will be helming the new Godzilla for Legendary and Warner Bros. He’s in final talks, and in the process of hiring a cowriter for the script.
This is actually really inspiring news. Edwards’ Monsters was beautifully shot and the special effects were fantastic. The final shot was actually a little sad in the way that all good monster movies should be. I wasn’t a fan of the script or the characters, but hopefully a solid cowriter will iron those kinks out.
This new century needs a new Godzilla. May this one honor the great lizard’s legacy and usher in my dream of a new Mothra movie.
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Did not see this coming. Good news.
Great news but this seems like the type of thing destined to fall apart. Crossing fingers!
I loved Monsters (just wish it had a more memorable name… "huh?…oh! that movie!). But isn't this where you get a promising director, give him lots of money, then override all of his choices and do what the marketing department tells you to, ensuring a stillborn beaten foetus? GARETH, GRAB THE MONEY AND RUN!
I felt the need to comment on this be because I can't take the monsters hype anymore. Am I the only one who went into the movie thinking it wad going to change my life due to all of the internet based love only to wish I had cleaned out the toilet bowl with my face instead? First of all, the lead male had a tramp stamp. Second of all…do I really need a second of all? The movie was called monsters but at no point did I get a feeling of "monster" when I looked at the giant land octopi. Because they were just octopi on land. That doesn't make it a monster and it certainly doesn't give anyone the right to call it "lovecraftian." Lovecraftian's creatures were borderline unimaginable, with tentacles and wings being among the only physical features the human mind could comprehend. A space octopus is not hard to comprehend and is not monstrous. So I am concerned with the fact that this director is helming godzilla. Monsters tried to be poignant and failed. It certainly wasn't fun. Based on monsters, what can he contribute to a godzilla movie?
NOOOOO!
Damn it to hell! "Monsters" was dreck… absolute dreck. Uninspired direction, terrible script, the most innately-hateable lead characters of 2010 and that godawful pretentious bullshit ending. "Godzilla" deserves better.
Praying – literally, PRAYING that this falls apart. Fuck.
This is horrible news. Monsters was total shite. The one rule I have for a film is it has to at least keep me awake while I watch it. Monsters was so mind numbingly BOOORING I dozed off at the end and could have cared less that I missed it. Now this clown is directing a Godzilla movie. No, no, a thousand times… Hell No!!!!
Edwards is a hack. He'll make an even worse movie than the last Godzilla.
Whoa, internet people complaining about something that was well liked? No way.
I got to see Monsters at a free screening, and the price was right. I didn’t really like it all that much. I felt it was slow and meandered and really didn’t go anywhere. It had a very predictable plot and the special effects were only so-so. That said, a new Godzilla movie would be great, I just hope it is better than Monsters and Godzilla 1998 combined.
Man, you fuckin’ people. Anything to whine about something other people enjoyed. Jesus.
This sounds like nothing but good news to me, and at the very least Edwards can’t make a worse Godzilla movie than, say, Roland Emmerich.
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