Godzilla 2011

[Endrius]

Da hollywoodreporter

 

Godzilla has a director.

 

Gareth Edwards, the British filmmaker who wrote and directed indie sci-fi movie Monsters, is closing a deal to develop and direct the creature feature for Legendary Pictures, the company that co-produced blockbusters such as Inception and The Dark Knight.

 

Warner Bros. will co-produce, co-finance and distribute per its deal with Legendary. Legendary's Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing along with Dan Lin, Roy Lee, and Brian Rogers.

 

Legendary picked up the rights to the giant lizard from Japan’s Toho Co. in March 2010. It was around that time that Edwards’ Monsters made its premiere at SXSW (where WME quickly signed him for representation) before moving on to the Toronto International Film Festival and a U.S. release by Magnet Releasing in October.

 

The movie, famously made for a budget in the low six figures, took a different tact in its handling of the alien invasion genre. It centered on two characters traveling through a Mexico that is now a quarantine zone due to an alien-monster infestation. The flick slyly showed only parts of the aliens during the course of the movie, with tentacles attacking cars and people during the night, for example, but the gripping climax featured two giants slithering around an abandoned gas station.

 

The movie got Hollywood ga-ga over the filmmaker, who always intended Monsters to act as a showpiece to attract bigger work, and Legendary execs were no exception. They sought him out, thinking he could be the right man to take their monster into the 21st century.

 

Edwards will now work with a new yet-to-hired writer on the script. (David Callaham was the original writer.)

 

Edwards’ Monsters work has won the filmmaker three British Independent Film Awards, including nods for best director, best achievement in production and best technical achievement. It also landed him work with Timur Bekmambetov on an epic sci-fi project that he is writing as a directing vehicle.

[m0ntella_9]

Bah...speriamo che non venga fuori na roba strana. :goccia:

Voglio vedere tre o quattro mostrazzi giganti portare distruzione ovunque...e chissà se a sto giro gli ameri-cani mi rendono felice...

[Shuji]

Questi so' pazzi.

 

Ho avuto modo di parlare con la Toho anche su Godzilla anni fa, e ribadisco che gli americani so' pazzi.

 

Non tireranno mai nulla di buono da Godzilla.

Non per incapacita' o mancanza di risorse, ma proprio perche' ci sono generi e 'topoi' che funzionano solo in un determinato luogo, ed anche in un determinato tempo; sarebbe come vendere un cinepanettone che da noi funziona bene a natale ad un produttore americano per mandarlo in sala quando da loro anzi il periodo e' pure favorevole, verso agosto.

 

Ci sono film e tematiche che possono funzionare e funzionano in patria, e potrei citarne a iosa ad esempio dove la produzione e' maggiore come ad hong kong (ora, pure, ridotta), trasposte in altri paesi mancano del background socio-culturale che ne informa la base stessa del gradimento.

 

Non so bene neanche che fine ha fatto poi il Godzilla di Kitamura che doveva essere il suo 'trampolino' per il Grande mercato...