Eerder deze maand vernamen we dat The Shawshank Redemption en The Green Mile regisseur Frank Darabont was aangesteld om te gaan werken aan het scenario voor Gareth Edwards' aankomende Godzilla film. Tijdens een interview met io9 vertelde Darabont in brede termen wat hij met het project van plan is.
"What I found very interesting about Godzilla is that he started off definitely as a metaphor for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And some of the atom bomb testing we were doing in the South Pacific in the subsequent years. The giant terrifying force of nature that comes and stomps the s--t out of your city, that was Godzilla
What we're trying to do with the new movie is not have it camp, 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."
"Godzilla wordt een angstaanjagende natuurkracht"
Scenarist Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) belooft dat de nieuwe film heel anders zal worden dan wat we gewend zijn.