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Is 'Godzilla' Going After Aaron Johnson?

Warner Brothers/Legendary Picture's 'Godzilla' reboot has been in the news a lot lately. First they hired Drew Pearce ('Iron Man 3') to do a rewrite, and then they ran into a potential legal rough patch involving producers Roy Lee and Dan Lin. It was about this time that they also hired Frank Darabont ('The Walking Dead') to do another rewrite. Then there were whispers that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was going to be playing the lead. Because at this point, if it's a major studio project in development, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will be "in the mix" for the lead. Now it seems the casting focus has shifted to a more 'Kick-Ass' choice for the male lead. Aaron Johnson, or Aaron Taylor-Johnson as he is now dubbed, is purportedly being eyed for the principle human role in Gareth Edwards' highly-anticipated monster movie. Sources are saying that Johnson is actually the frontrunner for the part, and his signing of the deal is only contingent upon his reading Darabont's draft.

As you have no doubt gathered by this point, there is no shortage of casting news floating around the blogosphere. More often than not, these reports end up being denied or debunked, but the discussion they yield is often interesting regardless of whether they end up being verified. So let us discuss. First and foremost, I think Aaron Taylor-Johnson is a terrific young actor. I was impressed with him in 'Kick-Ass' and even his turn in the lackluster 'Savages' was quite strong. Would he make a suitable lead for 'Godzilla?' That's really hard to say without having any inkling as to how the new version of the script will be structured. However, it would greatly behoove 'Godzilla' to make a priority of casting strong, proven talent to complement their titular lizard. Failure to do so places the new 'Godzilla' in danger of falling into the same trap as, say, 'Transformers.' Yes, it's great that they had giant robots smashing into each other, and that was admittedly amazing to watch, but every once of human element in each of the 'Transformers' movies is aggravatingly terrible. Whether they land Gordon-Levitt or Taylor-Johnson, they at least appear to be on the right track in regard to level of talent needed. I just hope the script for 'Godzilla' develops the human side of the story as much as the city-stomping monster aspects.

What do you guys think? Do you feel Aaron Taylor-Johson make a suitable lead? How important to you is the human element of the new Godzilla movie?

Source: Deadline

Tags: Aaron, Edwards, Gareth, Godzilla, Johnson, Taylor-Johnson, casting, lead, reboot, rumor

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Comment by E.E.E. on January 12, 2013 at 7:32pm: I don't think it matters who is the lead. At the end of the day what we want to see is Godzilla tearing up stuff and hopefully another monster fighting him. You can anyone on the ground level yelling, "Look is Godzilla" or "I don't know what it is, it is like some kind of Godzilla or something!"

Comment by Boatloads1017 on January 12, 2013 at 9:54am: So is he going to be the one saying "That's a lot of fish?"

Comment by Anthony Stokes on January 12, 2013 at 12:16am: Aaron Johnson is a good actor, they should've made him Peter Parker in Amazing Spiderman, he along with Micheal Pena are two of my favorite actors nobody really talks about

Comment by Burn Victim on January 11, 2013 at 11:27pm: STOP TEASING US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment by hewylewis on January 11, 2013 at 7:58pm: Hmm... I wouldn't mind Kick Ass in a Godzilla movie. Just as long as they actually MAKE IT!!!!

Comment by Mike Denney on January 11, 2013 at 7:26pm: On 'GojiraG's comment, I think they could easily go somewhere with that element, esp. considering how fresh the idea of 'government concealment' of a nuclear threat will be in the minds of the people currently living in Japan. Definitely.

As far as the 'lead', I'm with 'Composite Who Horrible': Gordon-Levitt is doing too much 'popular, mass-media-relative' stuff in the U.S. now, and as 'American' as any of 'our' Godzilla flicks might be, I like Taylor-Johnson--he sure as hell did a better job in Kick-Ass than Cage did (JAYZ!), in fact, he carried it, like he was cast to.

So, 'him'...and otherwise, I hope they do the 'government-concealed-nuclear-threat' bringing Godzilla up as a warning, like in the old days. That was fun. And Japan deserves that--hell, so would we, if and when. Just because our politicians recently 'got out a major poo' doesn't make 'em all people-friendly, human, or our BFFs--they've probably all been using their Christmas bonuses to call up Richard Branson thinking his Verizon holiday TV spots were showing real-and-actual footage of him reclining in space.

Comment by Composite Who Horrible on January 11, 2013 at 7:12pm: JGL has already made his big leap into Franchise Blockbuster territory. He will ask for too much and the studio will offer too little. The Godzilla films have always been known for their weak inclusion of human characters as a frame for the rest of the film. As much as we rag on Transformers for taking all the focus away from the robot battles and trying to interject human characters the Godzilla films did that in EVERY film. My favorite film in the series Ghidora the Three Headed Monster has a plot about aliens saving a foreign princess from assassination and follows a Japanese police officer that was asked to be her bodyguard locating and protecting the possessed girl from her assassins. Also, there was a Godzilla film in their. I stay interested but I am getting a little worried.

Comment by MahMahAfro on January 11, 2013 at 4:56pm: They should go for JGL, then we will finally see who would win in a fight beetween Batman and Godzilla.

Or would it be Robin vs Godzilla, I'm still not too sure...

Comment by GojiraG on January 11, 2013 at 3:30pm: Oi, all these rewrites..... I hope the movie isn't jumbled. If they're going back to the roots of Godzilla with 'Gojira 1954' that used the monster as a metaphor for nuclear power, the human component will have to play a big part in showing how differently people respond to the threat and wonder of a giant fire-breathing dinosaur. On the other hand, it is rumored that, like in most other godzilla films, Godzilla will fight another monster, which a lot of his fans like to see him do. If they try to balance the epic action battle parts with the dark philosophical tone, the film could go either way.