{"id":22350,"date":"2012-10-05T09:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=22350"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:53:04","slug":"american-godzilla-gets-new-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/05\/american-godzilla-gets-new-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"American GODZILLA Gets New Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I don\u2019t think that anyone wants a repeat of the 1998 American version of Godzilla<\/strong>, least of all Warner brothers and Legendary Pictures, the folks who are bankrolling a new English version of the classic giant monster story. To that end they\u2019ve hired Gareth Edwards, who has already showed some facility with the genre in his own low budget film Monsters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It also sounds as if they are paying careful attention to the script already worked on by David Callahan, David Goyer and Max Borenstein. Variety<\/em><\/a> is reporting that a new writer has been added to that list \u2013 Iron Man 3<\/strong>\u2019s Drew Pearce.<\/p>\n

With the studio reportedly happy with the screenplay\u2019s core story, Pearce is coming on board to help \u201cage up\u201d the characters prior to casting getting underway.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an interesting concern about a screenplay to have and it sounds as if Edwards and Warners isn\u2019t interested in just populating the film with a bunch of twenty-something model types. More than repeating the 1998 Godzilla<\/strong>, I don\u2019t think that anyone wants a repeat of Denise Richards-as-a-nuclear physicist that we got in 1999\u2018s The World Is Not Enough<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Given that Pearce is supposedly working on the script for a four week period, I would suspect that we will be hearing about whom night be in that cast before the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rewrite will \u201cage up\u201d the characters.<\/div>\n

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