While shooting this film, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey accidentally went to a lakeside set of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), which was also shooting nearby in Vancouver and looked very similar to the set for this film that he was set to shoot on that day. He described walking around with his light meter, not recognizing anyone, as a "surreal, dreamlike experience" until he realized his mistake.
Gareth Edwards and the design group reviewed all the previous incarnations of Godzilla's design for influence on the final design for the film: "The way I tried to view it was: imagine Godzilla was a real creature and someone from Toho saw him in the 1950s and ran back to the studio to make a movie about the creature and was trying their best to remember and draw it... and in our film you get to see him for real. It was important that this felt like a Toho Godzilla."
For the 1950s scenes, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey wanted "a peeled look with muted colors and diffused highlights." To achieve this, he shot those scenes with vintage 1960s camera lenses and additionally had the shades of black in those scenes digitally tinted in magenta.
Director Gareth Edwards described Godzilla as an anti-hero: "Godzilla is definitely a representation of the wrath of nature. The theme is man versus nature and Godzilla is certainly the nature side of it. You can't win that fight. Nature's always going to win and that's what the subtext of our movie is about. He's the punishment we deserve."
The monologue heard in the trailer belongs to J. Robert Oppenheimer, a nuclear physicist who worked on the atom bomb, which in the Godzilla canon led to the creation of the monster.
This is the last film that Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures collaborated together on.
A surprise teaser trailer and poster for the film were revealed at Comic-Con 2012.
Principal photography was then reported to start in Vancouver, British Columbia in March 2013. The film's cinematographer Seamus McGarvey ("The Avengers") stated that the shooting schedule is expected to begin in March and end in June. Director Gareth Edwards arranged a presentation in one of the stages on the Warner Bros. lot to walk the studio through his vision of the film, which was received very positively and locked in the March production start date.
After the release of 2004's Godzilla: Final Wars, marking the 50th anniversary of the Godzilla film franchise, Toho Co., Ltd. announced that it would not produce any films featuring the Godzilla character for ten years. Director Yoshimitsu Banno (who had directed 1971's Godzilla vs. Hedorah) secured the rights from Toho to make an IMAX 3D short film based on a remake of the Godzilla vs. Hedorah story. Banno and producer Kenji Okuhira then joined with American 3-D Cinematographer and Visual Effects Supervisor Peter Anderson who brought on producer Brian Rogers and the project was then re-negotiated with Toho as a full length 3-D feature film. Also through Anderson, Kerner Optical came on board to produce the film. But after several years of problems with raising needed additional funding, the team approached Legendary Pictures in 2009.
Juliette Binoche, who once turned down starring in Jurassic Park (1993), was fully convinced to star in this film, after she received a beautiful letter from directer Gareth Edwards.
Legendary Pictures asked a judge to uphold its decision to remove producers Dan Lin, Roy Lee, and Doug Davison from the film. The studio filed a complaint for declaratory relief in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging that Lin, Lee, and Davison had threatened to sue the production company-financier for exercising its option to remove the producers from the movie. The complaint said that the trio's efforts to date had consisted only of introducing a screenwriter and contributing notes that were not used.
In March 2010, Legendary formally announced the project after it had acquired the rights to make the film from Toho, with a tentative release date of 2012. The project is to be co-produced with Warner Bros. Pictures, who will co-finance it (Sony's TriStar Pictures will not be involved because their rights expired in 2003). Warner's producers Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes franchise) and Roy Lee joined Brian Rogers and executive producers Banno, Okuhira, and Doug Davison with Legendary's Thomas Tull (The Dark Knight Rises) and Jon Jashni to begin production on Godzilla. Legendary said their film would not be a sequel to TriStar's 1998 Roland Emmerich directed Godzilla. Legendary first promoted the film at the San Diego Comic-Con International fan convention in July 2010. Legendary commissioned a new conceptual artwork of Godzilla, consistent with the Japanese design of the monster. The artwork was used in an augmented reality display produced by Talking Dog Studios; every visitor to the convention was given a T-shirt illustrated with the concept art. When viewed by a web-cam at the Legendary Pictures booth, the image on-screen would spout radioactive breath and the distinctive Godzilla roar could be heard.
In the fall of 2010 it was revealed that Legendary had hired screenwriter David Callaham ("The Expendables") to write the script for "Godzilla." Gareth Edwards, who directed the low budget, but critically acclaimed "Monsters," was attached in January 2011 to direct. Also, it was announced that Callaham's first draft of the script would be rewritten. In July 2011, David S. Goyer (writer of Legendary's "The Dark Knight" Trilogy) was attached to write a story outline, but was unable to finish due to scheduling conflicts. In November 2011, Max Borenstein (who penned "The Seventh Son" for Legendary) was hired to write a new screenplay based on Goyer's story.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Henry Cavill, Scoot McNairy and Caleb Landry Jones were considered for the role of Lt Brody.
This film stars Bryan Cranston known for playing chemistry teacher Walter White on the AMC television series Breaking Bad (2008). Walter White is a man who strives to leave behind both a legacy and money for his family after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. The original Godzilla (1954) starred Takashi Shimura, who also played a man dying of cancer who wishes to leave behind a legacy in the Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru (1952).
Godzilla's appearance shows him covered in keloid scars. This feature was taken from the original Godzilla (1954), who was heavily scarred to evoke the gruesome marks born by the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings; this enhances the concept of Godzilla as a monster created by nuclear weapons.
Sound designer Erik Aadahl was provided with the original 1954 recording of Godzilla's roar from Toho Studios. He upgraded the roar into a more organic, contemporary sound.
According to Gareth Edwards, Godzilla's design is inspired by bears and komodo dragons; his face in particular is influenced by the heads of bears, dogs and eagles (Edwards said the eagle "has a lot of nobility, it made him feel very majestic and noble.").
For designing the Mutos, the filmmakers were inspired by Alien (1979) and Starship Troopers (1997).
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Akira Takarada: Actor from the original Godzilla (1954) and starred in numerous sequels.
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