The movie is in trouble
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Legendary Pictures has today filed suit against producers Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison in order to have them removed from the Godzilla reboot. However, they are attempting to file a restraining order to halt the production of the film. Read on for details!
Josh Wilding - 1/9/2013
The news that a couple of the producers of the Godzilla remake wasn't met with an awful lot of interest, especially after it was revealed that the likes of Henry Cavill and Scoot McNairy are being considered for the lead human role. Well, things have today taken a far more serious turn as The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Legendary Pictures has sued Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Doug Davison over whether or not they are entitled to remain on the project. They have responded with an attempt to halt the production of the film with a temporary restraining order. You can read the complaint in full HERE, but the only real losers in this are us and director Gareth Edwards.
Frank Darabont Talks Godzilla"What I found very interesting about Godzilla is that he started off definitely as a metaphor for Hiroshima and Nagasaki," he explains. "And some of the atom bomb testing we were doing in the South Pacific in the subsequent years. The giant terrifying force of nature that comes and stomps the s--t out of your city, that was Godzilla… What we're trying to do with the new movie is not have it camp, not have it be campy. We're kind of taking a cool new look at it. But with a lot of tradition in the first film. We want this to be a terrifying force of nature. And what was really cool, for me, is there was a very compelling human drama that I got to weave into it. It's not that cliched, thinly disguised romance or bromance, or whatever. It's different, it's a different set of circumstances than you're used to seeing."
Darabont needs to understand, no matter how you fry an egg, it's still gonna be a fried egg.
No matter how hard he tries not to be cliched...if there's a monster involved that terrorises a city, if there's people living in that city...than he's version is going to be just as cliched as every other Godzilla movie.