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GODZILLA’s Gareth Edwards Fan Interviews & New TV Spots

By Michelle McCue | April 4, 2014

In the run up to the release of GODZILLA, Warner Bros. Pictures is releasing a full series of videos launching on Wednesday each week.

In the weekly ‘Meet the Director’ series, British director Gareth Edwards divulges his experience of taking on the biggest movie of 2014 and about the advantages of being surrounded by “the best of the best” for the release of GODZILLA.

In Summer 2014, the world’s most revered monster is reborn as Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures unleash the epic action adventure GODZILLA. From visionary new director Gareth Edwards (“Monsters”) comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.

Watch the brand new TV spots for the film.

Gareth Edwards directs GODZILLA, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Kick-Ass”), Oscar nominee Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai,” “Inception”), Elizabeth Olsen (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”), Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient,” “Cosmopolis”), and Sally Hawkins (“Blue Jasmine”), with Oscar nominee David Strathairn (“Good Night, and Good Luck.,” “The Bourne Legacy”) and Bryan Cranston (“Argo,” TV’s “Breaking Bad”).

Edwards directs from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, story by David Callaham, based on the character “Godzilla” owned and created by TOHO CO., LTD. Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Patricia Whitcher and Alex Garcia are serving as executive producers, alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

The behind-the-scenes creative team includes Oscar-nominated director of photography Seamus McGarvey (“Anna Karenina,” “Atonement”); production designer Owen Paterson (“The Matrix” trilogy); editor Bob Ducsay (“Looper”); Oscar-nominated costume designer Sharen Davis (“Dreamgirls,” “Ray,” “Django Unchained”); and Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Jim Rygiel (the “Lord of the Rings” films). The score is being created by Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat (“Argo,” “The King’s Speech”).