Godzilla Movie Twenty Minute Screening Description

German website Movie Pilot was invited by director Gareth Edwards to a sneak screening of the first 20 minutes of his new Godzilla movie in Hamburg, Germany. Hamburg holds a special place in Edwards' heart, as his first film, Monsters, made its debut at the Fantasy Film Festival held in Hamburg in 2010. According to Movie Pilot, the film opens at a nuclear power plant in Tokyo. Something goes bad and a nuclear physicist name Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) is able to stop a disaster, but at a personal cost. Fifteen years pass and the film returns to the power station, now being operated under Daisuke Serizawa (Ken Watanabe). Brody is in an interrogation room accusing the employees of the power plant and the government of trying to cover up the real cause of that accident as an Earthquake (likely the dialog heard in the new trailer). Brody says the incident was caused by something they created. He also wants his son, Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), back. Ford Brody is part of a special military unit in charge of delivering a special load of radioactive material that is supposed to have some kind of effect on the monsters. And it is definitely monsters, as in plural, though no description of the monsters was released. Theyshowed the "skydiving" scene from the trailer, with something huge added in. Edwards said, "When you want to watch a movie with a kaiju like Godzilla, you don't just want to see it fighting humans." Edwards said that he has met and exchanges ideas frequently with Guillermo del Toro, and that they have a mutual admiration for each other's work, specifically del Toro's Pacific Rim. Edwards said that the monsters in Godzilla would be more detailed than those in Pacific Rim and that they would stick to realistic camera angles in order to maintain a connection to the action. Movie Pilot noted that the film looked gloomy and grim, reminiscent of Cloverfield. They also said that the sight of Godzilla on the big screen calmed the skepticism in their "fanboy hearts." Godzilla comes to theaters May 16, 2014.