Godzilla King of the Monsters: Michael Dougherty & Ken Watanabe Interview
Last week I got to do something incredibly cool: I attended a private screening of Godzilla: King of the Monsters along with a number of reporters from around the world at Toho Studios in Tokyo. While everything about the movie is under embargo (for now), after the screening ended, director Michael Dougherty and Ken Watanabe sat down at the front of the theater and participated in a group press conference for about thirty minutes.
During the interview, Dougherty talked about how they decided which monsters were included in the film, the three-hour version of the film and why it didn’t work, how he decided how much to modernize the mythology, Easter eggs, the future of the franchise, how the Godzilla franchise has been doing a shared universe since the 50s, the balance of making this a strong film that stands on its own but is also part of the larger incredible history of Godzilla, which Kaiju Dougherty would want to include in a future Godzilla movie, what it was like working with Toho Studios, and so much more.
As most of you know from the trailers, Godzilla: King of the Monsters is the sequel to the 2014 film and stars Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, Kyle Chandler, Bradley Whitford, Ken Watanabe, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Thomas Middleditch, Sally Hawkins, Mothra, the three-headed beast King Ghidorah, and the titanic Pteranodon Rodan. The film is in theaters May 31st.
Check out what Michael Dougherty and Ken Watanabe had to say in the player above and below is a list of everything that was talked about and the official synopsis. If you want to be absolutely spoiler free, you might want to wait to watch this press conference as minor spoilers were discussed.
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