by mr.negativity » Sat Jan 08, 2011 5:21 pm
From Wales Online:
[quote="Nathan Bevan"]HE is the visionary young Welsh film maker who made a name for himself last year with a debut sci-fi spectacular shot on a shoe-string budget of around £10,000.
But now it seems Monsters director Gareth Edwards’ next project will be a very different beast altogether – more precisely, a scaly, 30 storey-tall behemoth with a multi-million dollar budget behind it.
It seems the 35-year-old special effects wizard from Pontypool’s impressive first movie – filmed on the hoof around South America and set years after an invasion of huge, squid-like aliens – has caught the eye of certain movie moguls in Hollywood who now want him to revamp classic Japanese creature feature Godzilla.
But film critic Gary Slaymaker said he thought Edwards was exactly the right choice to reinvent one of the silver screen’s most enduring scream-inducers.
“First of all, I thought Monsters was a fantastic film by anyone’s standards,â€