GODZILLA (2014) Casting

GODZILLA (2014) Casting

Here I take a look at various actors that would be perfect for Legendary's Godzilla film, as well as a few different Godzilla designs. Take a look and discuss!

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By Caidema - Aug 13, 2011 12:08 AM EST
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LEGENDARY PICTURES' GODZILLA: CASTING
by Caidema (Matt Albano)

In March 2010, Legendary formally announced the project after it had acquired rights to make a Godzilla film from Toho, with a tentative release date of 2012. The project is to be co-produced with Warner Bros., who will co-finance the project. (TriStar Pictures will not be involved because their rights expired in 2003.) The planned film's producers Dan Lin, Roy Lee, and Brian Rogers and executive producers Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira, and Doug Davison will work with Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni. Legendary said their film would not be a sequel to the 1998 Godzilla, but a reboot to the franchise.

Legendary first promoted the planned new film at the San Diego Comic-Con International fan convention in July 2010. Legendary commissioned a new conceptual artwork of Godzilla, consistent with the Japanese design of the monster. The artwork was used in an augmented reality display produced by Talking Dog Studios. Every visitor to the convention was given a T-shirt illustrated with the concept art. When viewed by webcam at the Legendary Pictures booth, the image on-screen would spout radioactive breath and the distinctive Godzilla roar could be heard.

Gareth Edwards, who directed Monsters, was attached in January 2011 to direct the new Godzilla film. Edwards said of his plans, "This will definitely have a very different feel than the most recent US film, and our biggest concern is making sure we get it right for the fans because we know their concerns. It must be brilliant in every category because I’m a fan as well." When Edwards' signing was announced, it was also announced that the first draft screenplay by David Callaham was to be rewritten. In July 2011, Legendary announced that writer David Goyer, who has worked with Legendary Pictures on its Batman movies, has been selected to write the film's script.

Here we take a look at who I believe would make perfect casting choices for the human characters in a new gritty-Dark Knight-esque Godzilla film.

Main Characters:


Paul Walker

Don Cheadle

Vera Farmiga

Zoe Saldana

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Supporting Characters:


Emile Hirsch

Tony Soprano

Milas Kunis

Kevin Durand

Paul Giamatti

Stacy Ferguson

Jeremy Piven

Kathy Bates

Jennifer Lawrence

Danielle Harris

Terence [frick]ing Stamp

Gene Hackman

David O'Hara

Wentworth Miller

These are just my idea of what I who I think would be good for this movie, I tried to base it on who could help pull off a gritty type Godzilla movie and keep it serious, and who would work well together in my mind and have good chemistry on screen in the event of an attack by a giant walking nuclear weapon of certain [frick]ing death. Go ahead and comment below, discuss who you think would be good for this movie as well as comment on my choices and feel free to pick them apart and bash me (I'm looking at you, Trolls).

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secretasianboy
secretasianboy - 8/13/2011, 6:29 PM
DARK KNIGHT ESQUE GODZILLA MOVIE
It's about a giant lizard that breathes fire.Have you seen the Toho Godzilla films.What makes those movies fun is how ridiculous and cheesy they are. There movies about fighting giant monsters.(Where are the other monsters: King Ghidorah, Mothra, Rodan) It doesn't try to be anymore than that. To make it gritty would make it lose what makes Godzilla what he is and would really fall into to all the traps that the 1998 Roland Emerich piece of shit did.
Sure the first very dark but I don't think that kind of film wouldn't work with an american audience because the first films as really a metaphor for how the Japanese felt about nuclear weapons. Speaking of which where are the Japanese.
You NEED Japanese character for Godzilla to work. Not having them is like not putting any Brits in a Bond film. Really if you ask me actors don't really matter in a Godzilla movie. You don't really need more that three of four character. No one watches the Toho Godzilla films for the people anyways.
Caidema
Caidema - 8/13/2011, 6:49 PM
Have you seen the original Godzilla (Gojira) or Godzilla 1984? Sure its a man in a suit but those movies are as serious as can be, and most people believe thats how the movies should be. But your entitled to your opinion, I can respect that. I just would rather see a remake based on the first movie where it was made to be realistic and scary, the movie was almost a straight up horror film.
Caidema
Caidema - 8/13/2011, 6:50 PM
Imagine Cloverfield with Godzilla enstead of that creature. Thats what I love.
Caidema
Caidema - 8/13/2011, 6:52 PM
Keep in mind when Tim Burton was making the first Batman everyone thought it wouldnt work because Batman was 'supposed' to be campy, when poeple thought of Batman they thought of the Adam West tv show. and look what Burton did, he took the series in a whole new direction and changed Batman on film forever. Thats what I hope Gareth Edwards does.
secretasianboy
secretasianboy - 8/13/2011, 7:03 PM
I have seen the Orginal Godzilla and 1982 and I think a films with that tone would only work if it was set in Japan, in Japanese. I don't think that film would work set in America. Though it's not impossible if done right. But I don't think you need so many characters. Cloverfield is about the people but the early Godzilla films were really about just the horribleness and sheer destruction of Godzilla.

Also I think if you look at Godzilla's track record: 2 movies are Dark serious films the rest and total cheesefests. I take back some of the things I siad earlier and acknowledge tha serious Godzilla movie would work but the cheesy monster fighting Godzilla was the one are grew up loving.

Also...Toho need to make a Godzilla meet Gammera movie.
Batman72012
Batman72012 - 8/13/2011, 9:31 PM
This has a transformers feel to it.
DangWoodchuck
DangWoodchuck - 8/14/2011, 7:48 AM
Caidema you're right- dark & gritty is the best way to go. I've been a Godzilla fan since the 60's (yeah I'm an "old" guy lol), and I want to see it done right this time too. The one really bad thing about the '98 Zilla movie, other than the obvious ones about his appearance, his "a-sexuality," and the horrible acting by that blonde ditz, is that he RAN away from the copters. Ohhhh, that pissed me off! Godzilla never runs from anything or anybody. The new one must stand his ground and take it- that's what he does best when fighting other monsters or the military. This Godzilla must kick butt like Peter Jackson's Kong. And if he can incorporate the same great CGI effects, I think Edwards can pull it off splendidly.

I like your pick of actors. Hackman could be the U.S. President, O'Hara would make a great villain of some sort, Giamatti the scientist geek, and Stamp could be the UN heavy who has to decide for the world if nukes are to be dropped to stop the "menace."

In light of our times, I think this Godzilla must be global in his appeal (within the script of the movie itself I mean)- not limited to just the US or Japan. After all, the whole world would be deeply concerned if a real-life big guy were to ever appear.

Great article, keep 'em coming!
Ronster
Ronster - 8/17/2011, 7:02 PM
I 100 percent agree with both, Caidema and DangWoodchuck. The new Godzilla film needs to be dark and gritty! I believe it's the only way that it will succeed! Obviously, the new film will need to (and I'm sure that it will) tie-in with Japan in some way. And I think that a few Japanese actors/actresses needs to come into play as well. They really need to get Akira Takarada (who starred in the first Gojira/Godzilla movie) and maybe a couple other actors/actresses from 'The Return of Godzilla'/'Godzilla 1984' to star in the new film? Also, I think the new Godzilla film would be a great opportunity to bring back the Cloverfield monster as well. And let them duke it out for awhile...but neither of them get killed...perhaps the Cloverfield monster and Godzilla, later team up at some point, to defend their home (the Oceans) from a giant alien attack, who wants to claim the Oceans as their home? Perhaps the giant aliens could be the giant aliens from the movie, Skyline? Just an idea.
defcon4
defcon4 - 11/1/2011, 4:10 PM
To me i think godzilla need to be a little dark and gritty but not to mutch. There is a point when that can be to mutch. To me the best godzilla that they ever done was the Godzilla in Godzilla Final War. I also like the godzilla in Godzilla 2000. If They could combind those godzilla i think i will be perfic and make it so its not a guy in a costume. I know it would be totaly new but it could be a new rise in godzilla. Like if they keep the skin in Godzilla Final War and the horns from Godzilla 2000. I think that would be the best comunation. Also they should get how godzilla was made right. He was the last of his kind of dinosausor on a inland. He lasted a long time till human came aroud and then when they starded nucler bomb thest by the inland he lived on and turn in to Godzilla. There also there is the debate on if he sould protect or destroy tokyo. I think its should be both. He sould demolish a little bit of tokyo to remide them of there history and to make them more enviromentaly frendaly with no nuclear power.(I do hope japan recover from there earthquake and tsunomi) and protect them when they need protecting from another monster or itself. Speaking of other monster i think he should fight a totaly new amost as powerfull monster or one they all ready have.Sugestions Destoyer,Mecagodzilla. If he fight a total new monster he should get NO HELP FROM THE HUMANS. It would show how powerfull he is. I also think that there should be a combine amount of japaniess and american people. That what the first movie did then none really did after words with both types of characters. It would apeal to mutipal crouds. But they should not out shine Godzilla. Other wise i cant wait for it to come out and even if it. other wise coment on what you think of my Godzilla ideal.(sory for any miss spelled words, i'm one of the worst spellers on the planet)
Brady1138
Brady1138 - 1/29/2012, 8:34 PM
If anyone here has seen the 1984 Godzilla film, that is exactly the tone they need to go with. The tone of the original 1954 film would certainly work as well. If they decide to use another monster from classic Godzilla canon, they should go with a monster like Rodan or Anguirus, bc MechaGodzilla or Destroyah (as defcon4 suggested) would simply be too over-the-top for a brand-new American film. I would be all over MechaGodzilla or even King Ghidorah, but for a US audience to buy into a world of giant nuclear (?) monsters, they should start out small (Rodan, Anguirus, Ebirah, Gorosaurus, Titanosaurus, or Kumonga) and work their way up to bigger monsters in later installments (MechaGodzilla, Destroyah, King Ghidorah, Mothra, Biollante, etc.).
johnme122
johnme122 - 3/17/2012, 6:53 AM
this is all i have to say. i never even heard of Godzilla until 1998 the year the best godzilla movie came out in fact i thought he was are creation until truth be told a few years ago so you can see why i like our godzilla more i get why yall want it to be more intune with the Japaneses movies but heres the thing a reboot/remake is supposed to be different hence the 1998 movie i was going to go on a rant because i cant stand when people talk badly about the movie i love but that would be uncivilized and i know people ar entitled to the own opinion 2 more things (1)i do have to criticize 1 thing about the 1998 movie is that godzilla didnt get enough screen time. (2) i think the should for the design go some where in between our and the jap. godzilla
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