Director Gareth Edwards was recently in Hamburg, (the place where he premiered his directorial debut, the fantastic Monsters) and invited a small group of journalists to watch some exclusive scenes from the highly anticipated Godzilla.
Our good friends over at
moviepilot attended the 20 minute presentation and are unveiling (what they can)
from the exclusive session.
– Attention Spoilers Ahead –
“The initial scene takes place in
a nuclear power station in Tokyo. Something goes wrong, and nuclear physicist
Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) is able to avert a disaster. However, he has to deal
with a personal loss. 15 years later we return to the same nuclear power
station. This time the physicist in charge is Daisuke Serizawa (Ken Watanabe).
Brody is sitting in an interrogation room. He is accusing colleagues from the
power station as well as the government to hush up something... The reason for
the incident 15 years ago was not an earthquake. It was something much worse, something
they created that is returning. Moreover, Brody wants his son Ford Brody (Aaron
Taylor-Johnson) back. Bryan Cranston delivers these emotional scenes
convincingly.
As we have already learned
watching the trailers, Ford is part of a special unit of the army in charge of
delivering a certain radioactive load by train that is supposed to have an
effect on the monsters or the threat they are posing. We cannot tell you what
effect, however, you have read this correctly: the monsters! plural! Edwards
kindly asked us not to reveal what their appearance.
The skydiving sequence from the
trailer was also shown in Hamburg, but with additional scenes and edited
differently. The additional footage contained something enormous, or to put it
in Gareth Edwards' words: "When you want to watch a movie with a kaiju like
Godzilla, you don't just want to see it fighting humans."”
At the presentation the director
also spoke about how he used the CGI cameras in a more real way:
"Each shot looks like there
is a camera team on the ground, on a roof or filming from a plane. Since you
can place CGI cameras anywhere, you tend to select impossible perspectives, and
therefore quickly lose any tangible connection to the action,"
He then gave a small description of
Godzilla’s head.
"The mixture of the heads of
a bear and a dog in connection with the majestic eyes of an eagle".
Godzilla stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Ken
Watanabe and Richard T. Jones.
Godzilla opens on May 16th, 2014.
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