One of my biggest complaints with Gareth Edwards’ 2014 take on Godzilla was that it felt very small. I know that seems crazy, considering that it’s a movie about gigantic monsters beating the unholy shit out of each other, but it really felt compressed and confined to me. The scenes with the kaiju were few and far between and we never got up close and personal with the monsters, instead staying with the humans as they remained far, far away from any real danger.
However, scriptwriter Max Borenstein, who wrote the 2014 film, is promising that the sequel will be “bigger and better”, especially now that the modern world of Godzilla has been created.
Borenstein spoke with Collider, who told them:
I’m writing it now, and it’s really going to be great. I don’t want to go off book and tell you anything that I’m not allowed to tell you. The response to the first film was really exciting, but now that that world is established, we can do bigger and even better things. We’re really stoked.
We’ll be seeing Godzilla towering over humanity once again in 2018. Gareth Edwards is set to direct. It’s unsure if Aaron Taylor-Johnson will be reprising his role as Ford Brody.