Godzilla

Legendary has tweeted a new image from the set of Gareth Edwards' upcoming Godzilla and it implies that we'll see the evacuation of the Farallon Islands, an area of land roughly 30 miles from the coast of San Francisco, where an attack by the Kaiju beast has been confirmed for the 2014 release. If we're to assume that Godzilla is moving west to east in the film, it's a good bet (although unconfirmed) that the creature's origins will fall somewhere in the vicinity of Japan.

Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins, Godzilla hits the big screen May 16, 2014.

Legendary Entertainment continues to tease their upcoming Godzilla reboot with another behind-the-scenes image. They captioned the photo with this: "Director Gareth Edwards setting up a shot on the set of Godzilla." Check out the picture below!

The Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston and features a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont and Dave Callaham. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher are serving as executive producers alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira

You can see a larger version of the image aftter the jump...

One year from today, Legendary and Warner Bros. will unleash Godzilla on movie-going audiences and, this morning, the former revealed a new video from the set with a message from director Gareth Edwards (Monsters).  

Edwards, as you will see, is in some sort of stadium and it's the first day with actress Elizabeth Olsen.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins star in the film opening May 16, 2014.

Legendary has been giving so much love to its "robots versus giant monsters" epic, Pacific Rim, this week, I think the company's other giant monster flick, Godzilla, was feeling a bit left out.  So, this afternoon, a new behind-the-scenes pic was released accompanied with the suggestion: "Be Prepared."

Directed by Gareth Edwards, the May 16, 2014 release stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins.

Head inside for the pic.

Legendary Entertainment has revealed a new behind-the-scenes image from the upcoming Godzilla reboot on their Facebook page. Captioned with "Path of Destruction," it gives us another glimpse of the chaos the big green lizard has caused so far.

Look for it after the jump.

Directed by Gareth Edwards, the May 16, 2014 release stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins.

A news outlet out of Vancouver dropped in on the set of Godzilla.  After the jump, check out a video package that takes you to Vancouver island where the film's military is on high alert and evidence of Godzilla's destruction is all around.

Directed by Gareth Edwards, the May 16, 2014 release stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins.

A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, Godzilla will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, except in Japan, where it will be distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. Legendary Pictures is a division of Legendary Entertainment.

Warner Bros. Pictures has been filming Godzilla at Golden Ears Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada and a new video of the production is online and can be watched after the jump!

Directed by Gareth Edwards, the May 16, 2014 release stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins.

A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, Godzilla will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, except in Japan, where it will be distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. Legendary Pictures is a division of Legendary Entertainment.

The site of a train towing a giant missle in your back yard is an eerie sight (especially given the heightened drama happening in North Korea), but for those living in the Vancouver area, it appears to be business as usual.  The production surrounding Godzilla has taken over and in the video you'll find after the jump, a family recorded a missle train cruising on by.  En route to where, exactly?

Godzilla is presently shooting in Vancouver and aiming for a May 16, 2014 debut.

Gareth Edwards directs; Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston star.

A new set photo from Godzilla - now lensing in Vancouver - shows off director Gareth Edwards with actor Akira Takarada, star of the original 1954 Godzilla!  Head inside for the image...

Takarada played diver Hideto Ogata in the original film; no word as to how big of a role he'll have in the American redo.

The Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston and features a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont and Dave Callaham. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher are serving as executive producers alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

Photos have surfaced of Aaron Taylor-Johnson (and one big missle) on the set of Godzilla, currently filming in Vancouver under the direction of Gareth Edwards.

The star of Kick-Ass will appear in the film alongside Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston.  It appears Taylor-Johnson plays a member of the military; how he factors into the grand scheme of the plot is unknown as story details have not been revealed. But I think we know what's to come: Godzilla rises, obliterates cities.

The film opens May 16, 2014 in 3D.

Production literally just started on the new Godzilla reboot yesterday and the film's director Gareth Edwards posted a "Welcome" video for all the fans teasing the film's completed first shot.

Today, we've got a new video from the Vancouver set of the film and there are quite a few more charred helicopters than in yesterday's video. Check it out below! The Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston and features a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont and Dave Callaham. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher are serving as executive producers alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

Slated to open on May 16, 2014, Godzilla is expected to be presented in 3D.

It's short and sweet, but director Gareth Edwards has issued a video message from the set of Godzilla, now officially in production in Vancouver.

You can find the video inside.

The Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures film stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston and features a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont and Dave Callaham. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher are serving as executive producers alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

Slated to open on May 16, 2014, Godzilla is expected to be presented in 3D.

Between now and May 2014, you're going to be hearing a lot about Godzilla here at ShockTillYouDrop.com.  Today, Warner Bros. shot us the official "production start" announcement.  And it looks like there's an added cast member.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today the final principal cast for the upcoming tent pole “Godzilla.”  Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe (pictured), Elizabeth Olsen, and Juliette Binoche are starring in the film, with David Strathairn and Bryan Cranston.  

Canada.com has revealed that the production for the remake of Godzilla has found a home and it's in the city of Nanaimo in British Columbia. Here are the details they've revealed:

Gareth Edward's sci-fi reboot of the city-destroying Godzilla is being filmed across Vancouver Island this March, from Nanaimo's Old Victoria Road to Ladysmith and Shawnigan Lake. More than 300 crew members are expected to land in the Harbour City for the eight-day central Island shoot and have pledged to use local extras, staff and equipment.

The film, whose working title is Nautilus, did a casting call in February for extras and recently notified residents along Old Victoria Road that filming is about to begin. Joan Miller, the North Island film commissioner, says Vancouver Island will make up the first shots for the new take on the legendary radioactive monster, which is set to hit theatres next year. Crews will stay in Nanaimo hotels for three days while they shoot the scenes downtown and Ladysmith area before they move onto Shawnigan Lake.

David Strathairn is in talks to join the cast of Gareth Edwards' reboot of the Godzilla franchise.

Variety reports that the Good Night, And Good Luck star will potentially join Aaron Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen and Juliette Binoche for the May 16, 2014 release.

Based on the classic monster from Toho Co., Ltd, Godzilla is one of the most widely recognized movie monsters worldwide, having been featured in more than 25 films, multiple television programs, video games and book series. Legendary, which has been developing the film project, and its partner Warner Bros. is planning to return the character to its epic roots with a gritty, realistic actioner. Strathairn recently appeared on the big screen in the franchise sequel The Bourne Legacy as well as in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln. 

Juliette Binoche is the latest name said to be in talks to join Gareth Edwards' reboot of the Godzilla franchise. Variety reports that the Three Colors trilogy star will potentially join Aaron Johnson, Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olsen for the May 16, 2014 release. 

Based on the classic monster from Toho Co., Ltd, Godzilla is one of the most widely recognized movie monsters worldwide, having been featured in more than 25 films, multiple television programs, video games and book series. Legendary, which has been developing the film project, and its partner Warner Bros. is planning to return the character to its epic roots with a gritty, realistic actioner.

Word broke just days ago that Elizabeth Olsen was up for a role in Gareth Edward's upcoming reboot of the Godzilla franchise and, today, Olsen confirmed her involvement in the project on the BAFTA red carpet.

"It's definitely not lighthearted," Olsen says of Edwards' take. "It's kind of going back to its roots of the original Japanese film."

The 1954 original was directed by Ishirô Honda and the Godzilla character (originally Gojira) was designed to serve as an allegory for nuclear weapons. Especially compared to some of the campier sequels that would follow, Godzilla is a decidedly somber film and it appears that that tone will be emulated in Edwards' version.

Gareth Edwards and Legendary Pictures' re-imagining of Godzilla is starting to lock down a cast.  According to Variety, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) are circling roles in the epic monster flick opening May 16, 2014.  Also added to that group: Aaron Johnson (Kick-Ass), but here's the rub.  It's all just "talk" until a final script is turned in.

Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead, The Mist) is doing a new pass at the script.

It was announced earlier this month that Frank Darabont has joined Gareth Edward's upcoming Godzilla as a screenwriter. Today, 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."

Frank Darabont is the latest writer to be brought aboard Godzilla.  The former showrunner of The Walking Dead, and director of The Shawshank Redemption and The Mist, will do a pass of the script recently penned by Max Borenstein (and others) for Legendary Pictures, says Deadline.

We haven't heard much about Godzilla since the teaser trailer premiered at Comic-Con this summer, but it won't be long before we start seeing more.

"We’re planning to film in March," producer Dan Lin told Collider. "We are in deep pre-production.  Gareth [Edwards] has really mapped out his vision for the movie, you saw the teaser, but Gareth thanks to Thomas Tull’s help he took over a whole stage on the Warner Brothers lot and not only showed the teaser you saw, he had some models built of Godzilla, he had art decorated all over the soundstage, he had pre-vis of some of the big action sequences in the movie.  So we’re in deep pre-production and Gareth’s vision of the movie is really exciting it’s a true re-boot of Godzilla.  And you saw from the Comic-Con footage it is a grounded, realistic version of Godzilla.  What would happen if Godzilla came into our world today?"

That bad-ass giant lizard known as Godzilla is returning to theaters May 16, 2014 under the direction of Gareth Edwards (Monsters).  While little is known about the story, the design of the eponymous, legendary monster and when we'll see that marvelous teaser trailer that played to audiences at Comic-Con, we do know when filming begins.

Based on what we heard about the footage screened for Godzilla at this year's Comic-Con, it sounded unlike any Godzilla movie we've really seen before and the director of the new film, Gareth Edwards, aims to keep it that way. When talking to Total Film (via Coventry Telegraph), Edwards said: 

"I've always been interested in Godzilla and the ideas around him. I really wanted to see another Godzilla film and jumped at the opportunity. My main idea was to imagine 'If this really happened, what would it be like?' I want to take a grounded, realistic approach to a Godzilla film."

They also asked him about getting the visual effects and creature design right and he had a unique answer.

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have slated their take on the classic Godzilla franchise to hit theaters on May 16, 2014. The joint announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, and by Legendary Pictures.

Toho Co., Ltd.’s Godzilla franchise contains one of the most widely recognized movie monsters worldwide, including more than 25 films, multiple television programs, video games and book series. Legendary, which has been developing the project, and its partner Warner Bros. will return the character to its epic roots with a gritty, realistic actioner. The project will fall under Legendary's overall agreement with Warner Bros.

The film is directed by Gareth Edwards, who earned worldwide acclaim for his feature directorial debut, Monsters. Edwards directs from a screenplay by David Callaham (“The Expendables” films), David S. Goyer (the "Dark Knight" trilogy) and Max Borenstein (upcoming The Seventh Son). Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce, along with Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher will serve as executive producers alongside Doug Davison, Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

The weekend was owned by Warner Bros./Legendary.  That's what anybody who attended Comic-Con would tell you.  Our team was at ground zero live blogging the entire studio panel when it unleashed a teaser trailer for Godzilla, from director Gareth Edwards.  We may or may not see that teaser hit the web any time soon, but a couple of bootlegged screen grabs of big G have been floating around.  Head inside for a look.  Maybe, before you do, you should read our teaser trailer description.

A breaking news item from Comic-Con, moreover, the big Legendary/Warner Bros. panel in Hall H.  The studio has debuted a teaser trailer from the new Godzilla film!  Director Gareth Edwards (Monsters) was on hand to talk to the crowd.  Head inside for our teaser description culled from our live blog.

Presented without comment.  Enjoy...

Legendary Pictures will be descending on Comic-Con this year in full force.  Not only is the company going to be preview Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, but it will provide a sneak peek of some sort of Godzilla!  That's according to our pals at Latino Review, who dropped some big Marvel news today.

Now, Legendary is taking up prime real estate at SDCC.  They'll be in the coveted Hall H.

The site would not say what will be shown from Godzilla - a project that has been in development for a bit now - but that it was going to be "sick."

When Legendary Pictures announced a new Godzilla film for 2012 (which will now likely be 2013 or 2014), all manner of supposed concept art and maquettes for the big lizard popped up.  And they were all bunk, proven to be fan art or old model kits.

In comes G-Fan - the magazine for all things Godzilla and kaiju - to the rescue.  The mag has run two pieces of concept art for Godzilla that shows one rejected design.  Unlike Roland Emmerich's Godzilla, this approach at least tries to stay true to the original design we've all come to known and love.

It was a big week in horror movie news and Shock Till You Drop's Ryan Turek and FEARnet's Lawrence Raffel are here to weigh in on it all.

Tune in to hear what they have to say about the upcoming Evil Dead remake, which has Diablo Cody on board as a writer, The Thing prequel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D and Godzilla.

The two also review Tucker and Dale Versus Evil and veer off the horror path by discussing The Dark Knight Rises and the new Spider-Man...y'know, because we like other genres, too.