- GODZILLA
Earlier this month, it was announced that Frank Darabont has
joined Gareth Edward's upcoming Godzilla as a screenwriter. In an interview
with io9, Darabont speaks about what he hopes to bring to the reimagined
franchise.
"What I found very interesting about Godzilla is that
he started off definitely as a metaphor for Hiroshima and Nagasaki," he
explains. "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 clichéd, thinly disguised
romance or bromance, or whatever. It's different, it's a different set of
circumstances than you're used to seeing."
Darabont goes on to explain that, while there's an updated
allegory for the new take on Godzilla, he's hesitant to explain what he
considers it to be because he doesn't want to alter the interpretation of
moviegoers.
Godzilla is slated to hit theaters May 16, 2012
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