According to the Hollywood Reporter, ‘Monsters’ director Gareth Edwards will now direct ‘Godzilla’ for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.
Edwards, who wrote and directed ‘Monsters’, is near closing a deal with Legendary Pictures, the company that recently co-produced ‘Inception’ and ‘The Dark Knight’. Warner Bros. will co-produce, co-finance and distribute ‘Godzilla’. Legendary purchased the rights to ‘Godzilla’ in March 2010.
The director is also currently working on an unnamed science fiction project with Timur Bekmambetov (‘Night Watch’, ‘Wanted’) which Edwards will write and direct.
Dirk Van Tilborg
After reading Jack Kirby’s Forever People and New Gods comic books and watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dirk was assimilated during first grade recess into the collective known as Science Fiction. Fueled by the visions of mad scientists such as Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert, he has quietly searched the galaxy for the next BladeRunner, Brazil and Dark City. Born in San Francisco and currently enjoying a steampunk version of Ft. Lauderdale, when not grokking Science Fiction he spends his time with family and friends and just maybe trying to enter the dreams of disingenuous politicians.