Legendary Pictures' 2014 Godzilla Reboot - Directed by Gareth Edwards

[Marvin]

Are we literally getting excited about explosions and destruction here? Any other summer and such things...well are seen differently among the online community.

 

[Boom]

From Devin at BadassDigest:

Godzilla is coming back. We've known for a while that Monsters director Gareth Edwards was working on a reboot of the classic kaiju, but Legendary and Warner Bros surprised Hall H by presenting a reveal trailer for the film.

Set to a droning score and with the famous "I am become death" speech by J. Robert Oppenheimer, the trailer opens with scenes of devestation. But it's not just the buildings that are impacted; corpses lay littered around a destroyed train, and survivors crawl out of the decimated remains of crumbled buildings.

Then a slow pan around a mass... a mass with scales and clawed hands. Lots of clawed hands. It's a dead kaiju, crashed onto a home, with carrion birds flying by.

Cut to black and... the roar. The classic roar. The Godzilla roar. There's a cloud of dust and debris with an enormous thing within it. A claw emerges and clutches the whole roof of an apartment building. Then plates - the spiky plates that the real Godzilla has, huge things big enough for a falling I-beam to crack in half on them. And then the face is shown - more dinosaur than the original puppy dog snout, but recognizably Godzilla.

Director Gareth Edwards spoke a bit after the reveal, saying that the plan was to make a more 'realistic' Godzilla film, more in line with the original. Less scifi action, more 'What if a monster really walked out of the sea?' The dead bodies on display felt very much in line with Edwards' Monsters, a movie that was about the little people beneath the feet of the beasts, which is exciting.

Legendary is still a ways out from actually getting this movie going, but the teaser at least proves they're starting with the right idea: doing the Godzilla we love.

http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/14/comic-con-2012-godzilla-surprises-hall-h/

 

[kaijunexus]

So.

Excited!!!!!

 

[roach]

Nothing to see here



i don't see it

 

[craigdbfan]

From Devin at BadassDigest:


http://badassdigest.com/2012/07/14/comic-con-2012-godzilla-surprises-hall-h/

Sounds awesome.

Looks like they're definitely going back to their roots. Judging by the kanji on the poster it seems they've even have it set in Japan at some point.

 

[Spade]

As much as I liked the brighter, carefree Godzilla movies, the films that tapped into that wrath of an angry god, where Godzilla was punishment for our recklessness, always stood out as the best. I'm cautiously optimistic about what I'm reading. This seems a lot more reverent of Big G than the last one we made. Need a better shot of him, though, 'cause the phone cam pic is not doing it for me.

 

[Mr.?]

As much as I liked the brighter, carefree Godzilla movies, the films that tapped into that wrath of an angry god, where Godzilla was punishment for our recklessness, always stood out as the best. I'm cautiously optimistic about what I'm reading. This seems a lot more reverent of Big G than the last one we made. Need a better shot of him, though, 'cause the phone cam pic is not doing it for me.

How are you viewing this photo? Doesnt work for me

Edit: You need to view it on a mobile device. Terrible picture, can't even make him out just his silhouette

 

[Spade]

Just clicked on @MoochRex's link. Pop his name into a Twitter search, should be in the top message to appear. I'd post it here, but I know the SHH staff has never been tolerant of photos from private screenings.

 

[Boom]

You can see the spikes on his back, and his head on the left .

Just clicked on @MoochRex's link. Pop his name into a Twitter search, should be in the top message to appear. I'd post it here, but I know the SHH staff has never been tolerant of photos from private screenings.

Good point. Roach, you mind removing the link from your post?

 

[roach]

a blurry pic is par for the course from Comic con pics

 

[Mr.?]

You can see the spikes on his back, and his head on the left .



Good point. Roach, you mind removing the link from your post?

Yeah the outline of his body, I dont see a hand though.

 

[terry78]

Yeah, it already sounds like what we should have gotten the last time. Though that soundtrack was the bomb.

 

[Boom]

Yeah the outline of his body, I dont see a hand though.

Because the shot has panned up to his head .

 

[Mr.?]

So is he going to be fighting another monster in this? Hope so but judging from the director it sounds like they dont want to do that but the footage says a monster is laying there dead.....im confused.

 

[Venom75]

So is he going to be fighting another monster in this? Hope so but judging from the director it sounds like they dont want to do that but the footage says a monster is laying there dead.....im confused.

So far,I've liked what I've read,but I do hope another monster is involved.

 

[Boom]

Didn't the descriptions say there was a giant carcass lying amongst the destroyed buildings that had multiple arms?

 

[craigdbfan]

Didn't the descriptions say there was a giant carcass lying amongst the destroyed buildings that had multiple arms?

Yup. Another kaiju.

 

[Boom]

Granted, this is sounding more and more like a concept teaser, but the fact that they bothered to include another creature in it leads me to believe that people are going to get their wish.

 

[Spade]

They have to have a beat sheet. Big movies like this aren't made without a general idea of what goes down.

People are reading too much into the "not sci-fi" comment. You can't have giant monsters and not be sci-fi. Edwards probably meant that this isn't going to be a 50s drive thru beat-'em-up, but a ground level look up. Here's some of Monsters and his thoughts on making it for a better idea:

 

[craigdbfan]

Granted, this is sounding more and more like a concept teaser, but the fact that they bothered to include another creature in it leads me to believe that people are going to get their wish.

Which has me wondering if Godzilla will be portrayed as somewhat intelligent and having a moral compass like it did in some of the later Japanese films?

 

[Spade]

I'd prefer him less heroic and more territorial. I loved Minilla and Godzooky (even if no one else did), but they were for friendlier Godzilla stories. Some of the campier stuff can stay away.

 

[craigdbfan]

Well there is a middle ground though. Where Godzilla is the lesser of two evils and where he sort of becomes the "hero" by default despite still being a major force to be reckoned with and a threat to humans.

 

[Victarion]

I think Godzilla fighting other Kaiju could be explained as Godzilla defending a basic need. Such as a food source. I could see some more primitive culture setting up a sort of shrine to Godzilla with an offering of food.

There's also the chance that both of the Kaiju kill each other. Which would be great for the people living in the city threatened by the Kaiju and "protected" by Godzilla.

 

[TX85]

I sure hope that comic-con footage gets shown online eventually!

 

[Mr.?]

I think Godzilla fighting other Kaiju could be explained as Godzilla defending a basic need. Such as a food source. I could see some more primitive culture setting up a sort of shrine to Godzilla with an offering of food.

There's also the chance that both of the Kaiju kill each other. Which would be great for the people living in the city threatened by the Kaiju and "protected" by Godzilla.

Sounds too similar to King Kong. The fighting doesn't need to be explained, just two huge animals fighting each other. Happens in the wild all the time haha.