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BREAKING: Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures have set their reboot on the Godzilla franchise for May 16, 2014. And it will be in 3D. The move was made by studio domestic distribution president Dan Fellman and international distribution president Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, along with Legendary Pictures. The film got a rousing reception at Comic-Con in San Diego over the summer.
Related: ‘Pacific Rim’, ‘Godzilla’, ‘The Hobbit’ Wow Comic-Con
The Gareth Edwards-directed film is being made in partnership with rights owner Toho. Godzilla has appeared in more than 25 films, multiple television programs, video games and book series. Legendary, which has been developing the project, and its partner Warner Bros. will return the character to its epic roots with a gritty, realistic actioner. The project will fall under Legendary’s overall agreement with Warner Bros. Warner Bros will release it worldwide except in Japan, where Toho will release it.
Edwards previously directed Monsters, and here will be helming a script by David Callaham (The Expendables films), David S. Goyer (the Dark Knight trilogy) and Max Borenstein (The Seventh Son). Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce, along with Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher will serve as executive producers alongside Doug Davison, Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.
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Another friggin’ Godzilla remake. It’s the death of original material in Hollywood.
But this one’s in 3D!
What are you talking about? Hollywood has been doing remakes, reboots, and reimaginings since the silent era. The Wizard of Oz – remake, The Maltese Falcon – remake, The Magnificent Seven – remake, The Ten Commandments – remake. Several of these were remade more than once. And there are dozens of more examples. They’ve been doing it forever and they are not going to stop. What era do you think that movies were all original ideas? If you are so hell bent on original movies being made, why don’t you write one yourself? Oh, probably because you are a failed, talentless writer and no one will read-let alone produce-your “original” drivel.
You beat me to it…I am sick and tired of hearing the endless “remake rants.” The 40s/50s hosted hundreds of radio “remakes”……the 50s saw the presentation of an equal number of TV theater “remakes”….the 60s/70s witnessed TV MOW “remakes”…and this isn’t even taking into account the film industry itself. In the 30s/40s, some films were “remade” within just a few years (granted, none of the “classics”). Wait….not quite true…as you pointed out, “The Maltese Falcon” (1941) had been filmed TWICE before, and within the previous ten years.
yes i know im only a kid so i do not have any talent yet but everyone seemse to mess up the godzilla movies when they do not let the japanese do it lets face it there good at making godzilla movies and we are not … look what happend to the last one we made it so sucked carrots..lol. remaking godzilla ….. nomader how youguys want to look at it …its not our cup of tea.
I’m actually a successful writer….got a couple movies produced and one in pre-production at WB…for some reason making another Godzilla movie made me wince. My example i… I thought “Cloverfield” was an original take on the Godzilla formula. This guy in the 3rd comment called me a talentless hack for making a comment about Godzilla being a worn out brand. I’d love to know what you do…
You’re a talentless hack for acting like you have some “knowledge” about what the intentions are with this movie – and for even bothering to post something so flippant and worthless. Enough with the negativity and ‘hoping’ things fail. Do you have a crystal ball? No, you’re apparently a writer who *should* work hard to get a movie made (as I’m sure these people have been doing). And anyway – remake? It’s another film in a series – not a ‘remake’. You sound like my grandfather. People cried foul when WB announced Nolan was doing Batman Begins (“Another Batman remake?!”) – that ended up turning out pretty well.
You are a talentless hack when you associate that Cloverfield debacle as a successful anything. More unwatchable, shaky cam relationship bullshit.
What’s YOUR masterpiece. Looking for Mr. Goodbar II?
Now that I come to think of it……
Oh, No! With David Goyer being involved, it can’t be good.
Please let Mothra be the next inatallment!!!!
Jesus Lord, NO! NOT THE TWINS!!!!!
ARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Moth thaa Rahhhh!
I’m gonna be runnin up to the table for a plate of some fresh Godzilla. I hope it’s gonna be yummy!
Actually I hope it will be just as scary as Abram’s Cloverfield in 2009. That was a terrifying tribute to the franchise. I still don’t even know what the creature looked like.
Godzilla is still a fresh franchise to reboot.
So WB chose the same date as Ninja Turtles as opposed to the week before, which has no movies scheduled?
Just like when they moved The Hobbit sequel to the same date as X-Men: Days of Future Past even though the two weeks before it were both free.
Or when they scheduled The Hangover 3 on the same date Fast Six had claimed 8 months before.
Why does Ninja Turtles own or deserve that release date?
Because both films will be heavily marketed to the same demographics, thats why.
Awesome, a set date.
Now it just needs to do Godzilla justice, as well as the first movie!
On the same day as Ninja Turtles? Someone will move.
Devlin and Emmerich killed Godzilla so it’ll be interesting to see if they can breathe some life into him. The problem with Big G is that after a while seeing him destroy famous landmarks becomes repetitive. But it didn’t seem to hurt Transformers. Give Matthew Broderick a cameo let him pop up for five seconds as the same guy he played in 1998.
I just hope the soundtrack is as dope as the Broderick one’s. COME WITH ME.
This “dope” phrase…is it old…is it new…who says that? I guess the same people who say “Cali”…
What is it with WB’s scheduling lately? Why so aggressive? First they put Hangover 3 on the same day as Fast Six, then they schedule The Hobbit 3 on the same day as the X-Men sequel and now this on the same day as Ninja Turtles. I don’t get it. It’s beyond a filthy tactic. June and July of 2014 are both virtually empty.
@Book-Brain…. Ninja Turtles was cancelled by PD long ago.
As long as Callaham’s script was heavily rewritten, I’m excited for this. Goyer rules. What Callaham delivered was beyond bad.
It hasn’t been cancelled at all. It’s been given a May 16th 2014 release date. If it’s been cancelled, someone better go and tell Michael Bay, because his very recent posts on his website heavily imply that the film is still being made.
I repeat, WB’s scheduling lately has been atrocious for 2014. I don’t know what they’re playing at. There are so many high profile dates still free for the summer of 2014.
Wasn’t 24 Godzilla movies enough?
I don’t know, wasn’t the 20+ Bond films enough?
Yet nobody is bitching about the new Bond film.
Film nerds are such biased little assholes.
Dude, there were 28 films (I’m not counting the 1998 disaster)And everyone of them was good. Some G-fan you are
I just laugh when someone in Hollywood takes the very thing that makes a property unique – in this case, the very unreality of a giant monster destroying cities – and decides to completely change everything about it, in this case, make it “gritty/realistic”.
They then scratch their head and wonder what didn’t work. It’s like “I bought a gallon of milk, now I’m going to work really hard to make it a loaf of bread”. Well, you can try, but it’s going to be soggy.
These movies should be made cheap, fast and by someone who loves and understands the genre.
Make a half a dozen of them in a couple years featuring each of the stable of creatures (Mothra, Rodan, etc) with a running cast of characters and then team ‘em all up in a big flick like they did in “Destroy All Monsters” in an Avengers type team movie.
You are correct sir but they won’t listen to your logic. This is going to be an uber-real take on Godzilla it will probably be just like Cloverfield a found footage or fake documentary fake news reports vision of Godzilla. “He’s attacking the city! Our Sky 9 News Copter is right over him now! Be careful up there guys. Oh no! Godzilla blasted our Sky 9 crew right out of the sky with his radioactive fire breath!” We will then see from the POV of the camera in the news copter as it spirals down to the ground and explodes in a big fireball. Gritty. Realistic. That’s the way we go.
WRONG!!! Godzilla started out as a gritty realistic film from the start! The original film was a grim portrayal of the horrors of nuclear holocaust in the form of a giant prehistoric monster radiated by the same nuclear weapons that traumatized a whole country.
As far as I am concerned, this film IS being made by someone who loves and understands the genre.
So basically, Hollywood IS NOT changing a damn thing about Godzilla! They’re actually going back to the dark gritty realistic roots that made the first film such an unforgettable genre-defining masterpiece!
Why the frack should anybody listen to some fanboys/girls with no experience of making movies when they most likely know what the frack they’re doing better than whiny fanboys/girls like you?
Also, when wasn’t Godzilla gritty? Did you ever check out the first movie? Or is all that you know the more crappier movies made much later?
You are mistaken, by realistic they mean a Realistic script and plot. It doesn’t mean that the whole movie is going to be based on realism. They said this with “Monsters” and that turned out to be a really good movie.
Kudos to Richard Fowkes who worked long and hard so that Legendary could have a shot at making this movie. But knowing Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni, and their choice of writer, could be a major bomb.
Maybe Hollywood will finally realize that the point of giant monster movies is to root for the monster.
Then perhaps we’ll have a Hollywood Godzilla movie that doesn’t end with everyone cheering around the monster’s corpse.
Morons.
Totally! No one watches Godzilla movies with an interest in how the characters cope with the whole ordeal. It’s about Godzilla vs the pollution monster, Mecha Godzilla, Rodan etc. Godzilla needs to FIGHT something and I want to cheer for Godzilla.
‘Zilla is a huge star who is already unhappy at Warners. The endless delays and script rewrites have driven him nuts. He finds Degeneres annoying. I’m not sure he likes working in 3-D and if anyone even dares to bring Broderick on the set, well, kiss Burbank goodbye. ‘Zilla would prefer to work with Eastwood because he liked the way he filmed Jolie and they are about the same age.
Nice to see them still planning 3d releases in 2014,I was afraid they were gonna let 3d die.
Godzilla in 3D? 1954 called. It wants its summer relase back.
Why oh why???????
Which city are we going to see trashed in boring CGI this time? That’s the only reason to do this movie, right?
–WHO NEEDS IT?
—-CAN Hollywood possibly get ANY staler?
Surely franchise slum ‘values’ —RULE!
Who needs ANY movie?
Can your hipster bullshit get any staler?
now THAT was a funny hipster joke!
2014 can’t come soon enough. Gareth Edwards will surprise everyone much like Neil Blomkamp did with District 9
Ummmm that trash that was called Godzilla with Broderick, cannot in no way shape or fashion be considered Godzilla! It was a over grown Iguana with bigger teeth. It totally distorted the aura of G. I hope they go back to the original body and frame of the Godzilla we know and love. I dont mind some changes here and there, but dont change the look completely. And make sure theres no darn comedy involved!!
If only they’d make it a battle between him and Eiji Tsurabaya’s other creation Ultraman. Now that would be a movie in itself. Godzilla vs. Ultraman. And I just might make it happen.
Great, will it have P. Diddy butchering a Led Zeppelin classic? hehe