LEGENDARY PICTURES' GODZILLA: CASTING
by Caidema (Matt Albano)
In March 2010, Legendary formally announced the project after it had acquired rights to make a Godzilla film from Toho, with a tentative release date of 2012. The project is to be co-produced with Warner Bros., who will co-finance the project. (TriStar Pictures will not be involved because their rights expired in 2003.) The planned film's producers Dan Lin, Roy Lee, and Brian Rogers and executive producers Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira, and Doug Davison will work with Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni. Legendary said their film would not be a sequel to the 1998 Godzilla, but a reboot to the franchise.
Legendary first promoted the planned new 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 webcam at the Legendary Pictures booth, the image on-screen would spout radioactive breath and the distinctive Godzilla roar could be heard.
Gareth Edwards, who directed Monsters, was attached in January 2011 to direct the new Godzilla film. Edwards said of his plans, "This will definitely have a very different feel than the most recent US film, and our biggest concern is making sure we get it right for the fans because we know their concerns. It must be brilliant in every category because I’m a fan as well." When Edwards' signing was announced, it was also announced that the first draft screenplay by David Callaham was to be rewritten. In July 2011, Legendary announced that writer David Goyer, who has worked with Legendary Pictures on its Batman movies, has been selected to write the film's script.
Here we take a look at who I believe would make perfect casting choices for the human characters in a new gritty-Dark Knight-esque Godzilla film.
Main Characters:
Paul Walker
Don Cheadle
Vera Farmiga
Zoe Saldana
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Supporting Characters:
Emile Hirsch
Tony Soprano
Milas Kunis
Kevin Durand
Paul Giamatti
Stacy Ferguson
Jeremy Piven
Kathy Bates
Jennifer Lawrence
Danielle Harris
Terence [frick]ing Stamp
Gene Hackman
David O'Hara
Wentworth Miller
These are just my idea of what I who I think would be good for this movie, I tried to base it on who could help pull off a gritty type Godzilla movie and keep it serious, and who would work well together in my mind and have good chemistry on screen in the event of an attack by a giant walking nuclear weapon of certain [frick]ing death. Go ahead and comment below, discuss who you think would be good for this movie as well as comment on my choices and feel free to pick them apart and bash me (I'm looking at you, Trolls).