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Darabont Offers Insight On New Godzilla
As Legendary Pictures continues to lay the groundwork for its upcoming reboot of 'Godzilla,' under the direction of Gareth Edwards, the project's latest scribe is being rather forthcoming with what we can expect from the new film. Frank Darabont, who was hired at the beginning of the month to rewrite 'Godzilla,' has revealed some of the nuances he and his team hope to bring to both the titular lizard, and to the human characters as well. With a purposeful grimace, here's what Darabont said during a recent interview...
"What we're trying to do with the new movie is not have it be campy. We're kind of taking a cool new look at it. But with a lot of tradition in the first film. We want this to be a terrifying force of nature. And what was really cool, for me, is there was a very compelling human drama that I got to weave into it. It's not that cliched, thinly disguised romance or bromance, or whatever. It's different, it's a different set of circumstances than you're used to seeing. And that's tremendously exciting as a writer when you're asked to do something else."
One of the reasons I was glad Darabont came aboard precisely relates to what he mentioned in the latter half of this quote. It's not enough to just have a bombastic monster movie, the script has to effectively develop the human element as well. Darabont has already shown twice that he can craft sensational human drama amidst a backdrop of an overwhelming monster invasion: first with 'The Mist,' and then as the showrunner on 'The Walking Dead.' This allays most of my concerns of the new 'Godzilla' therefore suffering the same problems as, say, the first 'Transformers' movie. As to the idea of making Godzilla a terrifying force of nature, I think that's the right approach to take, but it does sort of contradict the origins of the beast. The original Japanese 'Gojira' was created as a denouncement of the nuclear age, and as a portent about the danger of man's continued foray into atomic warfare. He was therefore a direct consequence of, as The Blue Oyster Cult notes, "the folly of man." It's interesting that now he's being referred to as a product of nature. I'm not criticizing this take on Godzilla, it's just an interesting switch.
What do you guys think? Do Darabont's comments instill confidence toward 'Godzilla?' Do you like the idea of Godzilla being a "force of nature."
Source: io9
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Comment by Thom Florio on January 23, 2013 at 5:00pm
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I have no interest at all in a Godzilla movie, no matter who helms it. I AM discouraged with Darabont putting off that Fahrenheit 451 movie again.
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Comment by Arsène Lupin the Third on January 23, 2013 at 4:07pm -
I'm good with this, Godzilla was suppose to represent the bomb originally but having him represent nature in a way is cool
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Comment by hewylewis on January 23, 2013 at 3:25pm
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JUST MAKE THE MOVIE ALREADY!!!!
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Comment by Gorgo on January 23, 2013 at 3:16pm -
In the BOC song it states "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of man." Godzilla is a force of nature, nature abused and altered by man.
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Comment by Haze-man on January 23, 2013 at 3:09pm -
Godzilla has been a force of nature for a while. Perhaps since Godzilla 1985. I don't see this as a radical change.
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Comment by CHEEZYSPAM on January 23, 2013 at 2:53pm -
I think what he means by "terrifying force of nature" isn't so much that he was born of nature, but that he is an unstoppable force not unlike nature. Godzilla (while being a consequence of Man's folly) is liken to that of a tsunami, tornado, earthquake and a volcano all wrapped up into one giant impenetrable pissed off lizard!
I believe these comments are there to set up the ground work to let people know what kind of movie this is going to be. Godzilla is back to form, he is a monster through and though. He does play well with others and he's not there to play hide and seek in NY (ala Zilla). He is there to fuck shit up and nothing is going to stop him.
Also interesting to note: in that same interview on io9 Sam Witwer nonchalantly says he's working on a Mothra script o_O I want more info on THAT!
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Comment by Richard Evans on January 23, 2013 at 2:49pm -
I don't know what to think, since the 1998 film bombed and the fan's including me was disapionted. I hope they don't rely on the romance or bromane that much, cause that will make it look like a cloverfield rip off. Even thogh godzilla was first. Personally i think the american media wasn't kind to him through the marjoity of his films. Personally I think there wasting there time. He's a japanese monster and he's a god over there. American has the cloverfield monster .
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Comment by Joe Magaletta on January 23, 2013 at 2:35pm -
I haven't really cared about Godzilla since I saw Cloverfield.
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Comment by Coodoo17 on January 23, 2013 at 2:29pm -
There goes Tokyo. Run from GODZILLA
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Comment by XAVIER on January 23, 2013 at 2:23pm -
Oh NO!! IT'S GODZILLAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
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