We’re now just two weeks away from Michael Dougherty‘s Godzilla: King of the Monsters bringing a quartet of classic Toho icons to the big screen, and if you’re hungry to sample the goods before May 31st, this gallery of epic concept art should tide you over.
The images come from an interview with the film’s production designer Scott Chambliss over on Forbes, which we encourage you to read. And you can check out the gallery below!
“It’s one of the interesting things for me in my career,” Chambliss told the site. “It’s, of course, creating the environments for the story of the movie, but also I was hired to be the ringleader of the design team that we brought on to collaborate on the updating of the monsters themselves and, to me, is very exciting. As part of a design team, none of us wanna fuck it up.”
He added, “The challenge of trying to remain true at our core to the designs of these original monsters that people really hold dear in their hearts, but also bringing them up to date in a way that honors their past, but feels much more contemporary, not only technologically, but in terms of how monsters function in movies as characters.”
The sequel takes place five years after the events in the first film:
“When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.”
Zhang Ziyi, Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Bradley Whitford, Ken Watanabe, Thomas Middleditch, Charles Dance and Aisha Hinds star.
Dougherty directed from a script he wrote with Zach Shields.
Godzilla returns on May 31, 2019.
