Gareth Edwards: Godzilla 2014 Director

[Gorosaurus Rex]

Thats pretty good to be honest. Good that he's not writing and that he's excited to work on it.

[Hellspawn28]

I found the link on twiter. It seems like he is busy with another movie and wants to finish that movie first before working on Godzilla.

[Gorosaurus Rex]

So it looks like what I was expected. Edwards isnt really the big man in charge. Looks like the Producers and writers are doing most of the work right now and might do so for the rest of the project.

[Bluezilla]

I was impressed with his answers about story telling in films and thoughts on some
of the effects driven films of today versus yesteryear. These are found on page 1 of the
interview.

[Hellspawn28]

Page 1 talks about nothing about LPG. It seems like he wants to direct another movie before Godzilla, so it looks like we will wait longer.

[Darkness]

The main bit of importance here is that he understands that as a new director, he has been offered a big name to take hold of an realizes that he needs to put his all into this in order to make more of a name for himself. And also, I hate it when people think that ALL Godzilla movies are B Movies. Can't stand that shit.

[HeiseiGodzilla117]

And also, I hate it when people think that ALL Godzilla movies are B Movies

1. I hope you don't mean Gareth, because he wasn't the one who said that.
2. They are essentially b-movie material... most of them anyways. But why is a "B-movie" bad? Nothing wrong with that.

[tma]

What does he mean by very early days?

[Hellspawn28]

I think he means that the story is still being plan out.

[Darkness]

And also, I hate it when people think that ALL Godzilla movies are B Movies

1. I hope you don't mean Gareth, because he wasn't the one who said that.
2. They are essentially b-movie material... most of them anyways. But why is a "B-movie" bad? Nothing wrong with that.

I wasn't refering to Gareth, I was refering to the Interviewer. I honestly don't think Godzilla slipped into the B Movie area until the later showa era. I consider the early films to be genuinely "Good" movies.

[DaiKamonohashi]

And also, I hate it when people think that ALL Godzilla movies are B Movies

1. I hope you don't mean Gareth, because he wasn't the one who said that.
2. They are essentially b-movie material... most of them anyways. But why is a "B-movie" bad? Nothing wrong with that.

I wasn't refering to Gareth, I was refering to the Interviewer. I honestly don't think Godzilla slipped into the B Movie area until the later showa era. I consider the early films to be genuinely "Good" movies.

Toho considered them A-list films up through DAM.

[Chris55]

What does he mean by very early days?

Meaning if it's out in 2012, it'll be a rushed piece of shit.

[TokyoVigilante]

His comments are shockingly low on Fandom Buzz words. I'm very satisfied with this.

[Darkness]

Toho considered them A-list films up through DAM.

Exactly. That's how I see them. And even some of the later movies like Godzilla vs. Biollante are great. I just don't like how common folk refer to the whole frachise as a series of B Movies.

[goji1986]

You're forgetting, though, that Monsters has way more visual effects than 40 seconds, and it's not even monster action. Do you think those quarantine signs, the gigantic fence, helicopters, tanks, etc. were all there on location? I think people don't realize that this is in fact an effects-heavy film, just not in the traditional sense.

And Chris, you're still not the one who's doing the effects. You're hiring out someone to do it and I'm sure their work is fantastic. But if you want, you can hire somebody else to handle a scene or two. Edwards did it himself, in addition to writing, producing, directing, and shooting.

Yeah but when you know the ins and out, know the workflow, and have been at it every step of the way like I have, I can see how people get impressed on the other end. I actually work with my artists, sit down with them and watch them and not just hand off assignments to them and cut them a check at the end of the day.

You're also forgetting that his Edwards does this for a living. Putting the monsters in at night is WAY easier than putting them in day shots. Day shots are FAR less forgiving for mistakes/blemishes than night shots.

I didn't mean to sound like I was accusing you of handing work off to people, you definitely seem to be heavily involved in your project in all aspects.

That being said, even though it's true that Edwards does (or did...now that he's directing in Hollywood) visual effects for a living, you're still not factoring in that in addition to the effects he wrote, produced, and directed the movie. Keeping the monster action to night shots was probably a conscious decision early during development so that some of the burden in post production would be lifted. As DaiKamonohashi said above, and as I'm sure you know, doing all of these things for a 5 minute short is hard enough. Imagine what Edwards must have been going through during this feature length movie.

Yes, going full out with monster scenes in daylight would be even more impressive if done well, but Edwards had every right to decide whether or not he wanted to put that kind of pressure on himself in post. Maybe he just wanted to get his movie out in a decent time period instead of occupying himself with perfecting that kind of effect.

But again, he did do plenty of daytime effects shots. They work so well because they're not meant to be seen as an effect. There's barely a scene in the movie that doesn't have some kind of sign or object that was digitally added in.

[Hellspawn28]

Well we know that he's excited to direct the movie. I think he might able to pull off this film for now.

[miguelnuva]

I thought all godzilla movies were B0films because they were considered low budget?

also the expected release date is july 2012.

[tma]

What does he mean by very early days?

Meaning if it's out in 2012, it'll be a rushed piece of shit.

oh we all know that this is not coming out by 2012

[shinmattiathekaiju]

I thought all godzilla movies were B0films because they were considered low budget?

also the expected release date is july 2012.

the 29th of July is my birthday.

[HeiseiGodzilla117]

also the expected release date is july 2012.

Don't post something as fact without evidence to back it up. WHERE did you find this? Give us your source.