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Director Gareth Edwards confirmed an origin story for the film. Screenwriter Frank Darabont in interviews described his plans for Godzilla as returning it to a "terrifying force of nature".

The film will add a "very compelling human drama" and that Godzilla would be tied to a "different contemporary issue" rather than the original atomic bomb testing.

In addition to contributing to the script, Darabont mainly focused on the emotional aspect and further development of the characters.

Commenting on Darabont's work, Edwards stated, "We blocked out the whole story and Frank did a pass at helping the characters and emotions. He delivered on that. Frank brought a lot of heart to it and soul."


Edwards additionally pointed out that one particular scene from Darabont's script convinced Bryan Cranston and Juliette Binoche to join the film.

Edwards felt it wasn't believable that a creature as giant as Godzilla could go undetected by humanity, so the writers conceived of the idea that the monsters existence had been covered up by the United States government, and as such their nuclear tests in the Pacific during the 1950's were actually an attempt to kill the creature.

In an interview with Fresh-voices.com, writer David Callaham spoke about his first draft of the film, stating, Edwards conceived of the idea that "Godzilla is a pretty cut and dry, giant monster that smashes stuff.

But the reason I got excited about it is because I saw themes and relationships to the modern world that I could tell in this story that was important."


Callaham also did research not just on Godzilla but animals, natural disasters and municipal cities in an effort to treat Godzilla as a real-life disaster.

Director Edwards confirmed that Godzilla is an anti-hero rather than a villain or a hero. He also discussed the themes incorporated into the film, stating "Godzilla is definitely a representation of the wrath of nature.

We've taken it very seriously and the theme is man versus nature and Godzilla is certainly the nature side of it. You can't win that fight. Nature's always going to win and that's what the subtext of our movie is about.

He's the punishment we deserve". Actress Elizabeth Olsen has too confirmed that the film returns to the gritty roots of the original film and spoke about its themes as well, "There's a strong theme about the importance of family in it as well as the theme of trying to control nature and how that backfires in the end."


Olsen has also stated in a different interview about the titular character that, "Godzilla is just so deserving of a good American remake, and I really hope we did it and I really feel like we did." Actor Bryan Cranston has praised Edwards' vision, tone, and pitch for the film and titular character.

In an interview with Canada's Entertainment Tonight, he compared Edwards' approach similar to Steven Spielberg's style in Jaws where the film does not immediately show the beast but rather build up to its appearance while still delivering an eerie and terrifying off-screen presence.

Cranston also praised the characters in the film and cited it as part of the reason as to what drew him to the project, Cranston stated, "The most important thing about this version of Godzilla is the characterization.

The characters in this are real, well drawn. He (Edwards) takes the time to really establish who these people are, that you root for them, that you invest in these characters, and that you care for them. That's the best part of it."


Cranston believes that the new film will wipe out the memory of the 1998 version. In licensing Godzilla to Legendary, Toho set down some specific conditions: That Godzilla is born of a nuclear incident and it be set in Japan.

The film has a pre-title sequence set in 1954, and then moves forward to 1999 and deals with a mysterious disaster at a fictional Japanese nuclear power plant named Janjira, which causes the evacuation of a district in Tokyo.

The disaster impacts on the family of Janjira-based American physicist Joe Brody (Cranston). Fifteen years later, Brody remains obsessed with finding out what really happened.



Resources: Wikipedia.org, imdb.com,
legendary.com





Godzilla - 2014 | Story and Screenshots


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Impulsively, he snatches off his protective headgear and breathes deeply.It's completely safe. Ford is becoming convinced. Something is amiss here. They rummage through the house and Joe grabs his 3.5 inch floppy discs. He finds a picture of Sandy and turns to see Ford's birthday sign, still strung up after all these years.


Meanwhile, Ford finds an old Army toy that he pockets. The beating of helicopter blades shakes them from their reverie.


As they head outside, they're immediately scooped up by Japanese-speaking security guards and driven to the "abandoned nuclear plant." Serizawa and Graham are talking with some others. They are concerned about activity surrounding an odd cone-shaped organic structure protruding from the surface of the old reactor.

Someone interrupts them to say they need to come with him. They are taken to where Joe is being interrogated. He comes across as manic and a little loopy, but Graham confirms that his data is strikingly similar to what they're seeing now. He's the only one left who knows what happened 15 years ago.


Back in the main room, the readings confirm that EMP pulses are knocking out their electronics with alarming frequency... just like in 1999. Serizawa concedes that it's time to kill the program. A steel containment net is lowered and millions of watts of electricity are applied to the chrysalis except that it doesn't work at all.


Suddenly, a massive multi-legged creature cracks out of the shell and pounds it's clawed leg on the ground creating an EMP pulse that de-powers the facility. People screaming and running as the creature strains against its enclosure. Meanwhile Joe is still handcuffed in a security vehicle.

He watches helplessly as people are slaughtered around him. Suddenly, a support smashes his vehicle and he's free! Joe watches in horror from an elevated walkway as his son faces death. But his own safety is in jeopardy as the bridge is demolished and he tumbles in a horrible fall. The creature has escaped and lumbered of into the night.


The next day, Captain Russell Hampton (Richard T. Jones) informs Serizawa that the U.S. military is taking over. He asks who does Serizawa need on his team. He points to Joe, bandaged and on a stretcher.


They take Joe and Ford in a military transport. Unfortunately, Joe doesn't survive for long. Now all eyes are on Ford. What could he possibly remember from his conversations with his dad?


Ford is ashamed to admit that he thought his dad was nuts, but then remembers something about echolocation Serizawa clues into this discovery and brings Ford into a briefing room and explains to Ford that the recently hatched MUTO may be trying to communicate with another giant monster that was found roaming the Pacific a long long time ago.


Serizawa then loads up the same vintage nuclear test footage from 1954 that we see in the opening credits, but a few crucial details included, mainly a few frames of a familiar giant spiny creature. Serizawa explains that the nuclear tests weren't tests; they were attempts to kill this creature.


This creature has been named Godzilla, and Serizawa is convinced he is returning, a feeling that is soon confirmed when it is spotted soon thereafter. The naval fleet follows Godzilla.


Meanwhile, Elle is freaked out about the news coverage of the Japan damage and can't reach Ford. Since Ford doesn't have much to offer, he's put on a helo headed to Hawai'i for a flight back home. The Navy confirms that the "MUTO" Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism is headed across the Pacific.


The fleet heads in that direction, flanking Godzilla's spines which is heading in that same direction. Sirezawa posits that Godzilla is tracking the MUTO and wants to fight it to restore balance to nature.

In Honolulu, Ford is at the airport, waiting on the train to his terminal. He's playing with the toy soldier and a little Japanese boy becomes fascinated by it. As the boy wanders onto the train, the doors close. His parents aren't on it with him. They freak out, but Ford mouths that he will bring the kid back. He hopes that he won't miss his flight.


Back to the carrier ship, they've heard that the Russians are missing a nuclear sub. The MUTO eats radiation (which is why the nuclear plant was free of toxic waste). It may have taken the sub as a snack. They send a team into the forest near Honolulu to investigate.


The team finds the sub, covered in goopy slime and mounted in a tree. The MUTO is snacking on nuclear fuel canisters.


An airborne attack is launched, but the MUTO fires off its EMP, knocking out all navigation controls for the jets and sending them plummeting to earth. At the airport, power is knocked out, including to the train. Ford doesn't realize that the MUTO has caused the outage and assures the little boy that the power will come back soon.


At a hotel luau, a little girl sees the explosion of the planes in the far off hills. The crowd is becoming worried as the little girl notices that the sea water seems to be receding from the shore at a rapid pace. Something is displacing a lot of water. Very quickly, we see that the thing moving all that water is Godzilla. Honolulu is flooded as the beast reaches ground. The luau (and everything else downtown) is toast.


At the airport, power is restored, but reveals the MUTO right over the train tracks. The train is headed straight into its Jaws. The behemoth shreds the track sending passengers to their doom.



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