More From Director Gareth Edwards On The Godzilla Reboot

More From Director Gareth Edwards On The Godzilla Reboot

The director of Monsters, Gareth Edwards was chosen to direct an American reboot for the famed Japanese monster movie series Godzilla. Now he talks a little bit more about the project and why it must be done right...

By bleedthefreak - Feb 02, 2011 02:02 PM EST
Filed Under: Fantasy
Source: SHOCK TILL YOU DROP

For a while now another Godzilla movie has been talked about. After rumors of directors like Guillermo Del Toro helming the project. But news later broke that the director of Monsters Gareth Edwards would be directing the reboot to the incredibly popular movie franchise.


After the latest American Godzilla starring Mathew Broderick failed fans were hessitant about another American made Godzilla movie. Edwards agrees with fans that this franchise must be done the right way:


"I'm a big fan,"Edwards tells Shock, palpably choosing his words wisely when it comes to talking about his latest endeavor. "I guess I will say I'm highly aware - and everyone involved is incredibly aware - of everyone's opinions on what this film has to do and what it has to be. And no one will do anything but the right thing. Without addressing anything specific, everyone knows how important is to get it right."


Edwards is not allowed to talk about the script that is being written but did reveal he will not be writing it.

Edwards also talked about how he got acquainted with the franchise:

"My earliest memories was channel 4, they showed them every Friday night. As a kid I wasn't quite sure about the dubbing, the English-dubbed versions. They threw me for a bit. I love science fiction and, well I call them B movies but they're not, but I love '60s and '70s sci-fi. But these would come on and be dubbed and it would take my kid brain to adjust to the dubbing. It took me some time to get through that."


The Gareth Edwards helmed Godzilla reboot hiits theaters in 2012
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bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 2/2/2011, 3:19 PM
:)
PL
PL - 2/2/2011, 3:35 PM
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 2/2/2011, 3:38 PM
fixed it for you PL
AlexDeLarge87
AlexDeLarge87 - 2/2/2011, 3:43 PM
I would like to see someone of these facing the king of the monsters!:)

King Ghidorrah

Destroyah

Space Godzilla


Biollante

Or total new monster... maybe something like Cthulhu?

or Kraken
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 2/2/2011, 3:45 PM
SWEET!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 2/2/2011, 3:53 PM
Cool... this beats JURASSIC A$$1 : P
RimCreaperUK
RimCreaperUK - 2/2/2011, 4:10 PM
Hot diggety dawg! I love Godzilla from the Channel4 Fri nights too, many moons ago!
I'm getting the vibe already that this is gonna be pimp!
YogiDonnie
YogiDonnie - 2/2/2011, 6:04 PM
Toho/Daiei just get it over with. Give us Godzilla vs Gamera. Stop with the foreplay already.
StuckInPanels
StuckInPanels - 2/2/2011, 6:10 PM
@JacksonVegaIII.....That's why we are getting a proper Godzilla film, not that overblown waste of film from the 90s. Jean Reno deserved better.

I grew up watching these films, loved them then and love them now. Godzilla made me cry....yeah I said it, when Godzilla fought Desotroyah and he was freezing at the end I was getting teary eyed....granted I was younger when I saw it on TV...but still
PL
PL - 2/2/2011, 6:12 PM
@bleedthefreak
thanks buddy. How'd you do that? i have never been able to figure it out.
comicb00kguy
comicb00kguy - 2/3/2011, 6:33 AM
I grew up watching and loving the original series of movies, bad dubbing and all. It sounds like we have a director in Edwards who shares that love, and wants to see this film done right. I take this as a good sign. Directors and writers that love and respect the source material usually deliver much better films than those who are just doing the job the studio assigned to them. I hope Edwards' words prove to be true, and that we get a modern Godzilla movie worthy of the franchise.

Destroyer14
Destroyer14 - 2/3/2011, 8:06 AM
This is good. I cannot wait for this. They should use Gigan.
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