Monsters' Director Gareth Edwards will direct Godzilla

[MouthForWar]

[Cookie]

[Flame of Udin]

[Mac]

No. To me, Godzilla isn't just another dinosaur. He's Guardian of Earth. An allegory for the atomic bomb. The culmination of vengeful spirits from World War 2. Godzilla has personality. He's not some overgrown, boring animal. That's what Dean Devlin gave us. That's what I don't want.

[king_ghidorah]

[walshiam]

[walshiam]

[ultrasanto]

[Green Dragon]

Going to need plenty of Tylenol before this whole thing is over.

[MouthForWar]

[jellydonut25]

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[Henry88]

[william newell]

Just curious, but I was wondering why this news{director announced)hasn't appeared in the "Official Update Thread"? Is it because Legendary has yet to make an announcement? Just wondering...

[ultrasanto]

[king_ghidorah]

[Gojiraknight]

I think it's safe to say this new Godzilla will be an anti-hero/bad guy with the tone being more serious (which is not to say darker). That is the tone this character is most comfortable in, that is the tone Edwards successfully implemented in "Monsters" and that is the tone WB/LP has stated they want for their franchises.

If they hired a guy who has demonstrated a capacity for "goofy fun" (Like Shawn Levy, Stephen Sommers, Rob Cohen, Brett Ratner, etc.) then I would expect that. As is, WB/LP hired a guy who can make a more serious-minded giant monster movie, so that's what I expect. So yay for me.

[ultrasanto]

[Gman2887]

[Benjamin Haines]

Regarding the discussion of Godzilla's personality on-screen, I think that's actually one of the things that's been consistently well-done in pretty much every Godzilla movie, even the ones that sucked. I think Godzilla vs. Mothra is one of the worst in the series but there are a handful of cool scenes in the movie, and they all involve Godzilla being on the screen, like his appearance out of the erupting Mt. Fuji and battle with the maser jets. That's one of the big advantages of Godzilla being a product of suitmation, because the character has always had talented suit actors playing him.

As far as Godzilla being a hero or antihero, they could always tread the line between the two, like in Godzilla vs. Gigan. The main characters clearly think of Godzilla and Anguirus as heroes, but the Japanese authorities are alarmed when the two monsters "break out" of Monster Island. Only after the alien monsters have wiped out their forces do they consider Godzilla their only hope. And of course, the movie ends with Godzilla and Anguirus winning and the protagonists smiling and waving goodbye as they depart. He's a hero to some of the characters and an antihero to others. I'd like to see that in the new Godzilla movie.

One of the things I really liked about Monsters was that it took an approach similar to the Toho films of the '60s and '70s in the way it presented the creatures as disaster monsters. We see how the people who have to live among monster attacks cope with it the same way they would any natural disaster. They prepare for it, evacuate the area when it happens, bring in the defense forces and deal with the damage afterward. Likewise, the monsters aren't presented as bloodthirsty killing machines but large, otherworldly animals doing what nature designates them to do. It's like that Ishiro Honda quote, "Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too big, too strong, too heavy. That is their tragedy."

[MouthForWar]

[DannyBeane]

[Gojiraknight]

[Benjamin Haines]

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