Film

Gareth Edwards gives Godzilla a makeover

You don’t find many directors scurrying around with a comb and scissors, chasing a giant coiffed dinosaur lizard about a film set, do you…? But that’s what you get with the rare talent that is Gareth Edwards. He’s the lucky guy responsible for presenting us with a long-awaited, sagacious remake of Godzilla, hopefully (so we hear) in 2013.

Now this good old Leicester lad sure has some ambition and ammunition behind him, because he’s only 35 and he’s already onto a Hollywood blockbuster. Could it all be too much too soon? Will he be able to handle the pressure? Does he have what it takes to impress us astute, witty intellectuals…?

We can but hope he’ll take it all in his stride. He started out working on the digital special effects for short films, documentaries and TV during the mid-noughties in very successful manner, so it must’ve been this kind of past ingenuity that’s helped him bolt up the ladder pretty swiftly to pave way for the big time.

Playing a big part in that success must undoubtedly have been 2010’s cult hit, Monsters, which we think was an absolute smash.  The Guardian agreed, Moviefone and Rotten Tomatoes even thought so too. It also won a 2011 Scream Award Best Independent Movie.

Critics labelled the most recent 1998 attempt of Godzilla “embarrassing”, so Mr Edwards certainly has a fair task ahead for us subconscious comparison-istas, but we reckon he’ll come up trumps and scare the bejesus out of the most unflinchable.

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