Godzilla
In this corner we have Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame!
I don't watch Breaking Bad but I like Bryan Cranston just fine. Same with Aaron Paul. Aaron Paul had his own outing earlier this year (Need for Speed) that didn't do so well at the box office. Let's hope this one does better.
Director Gareth Edwards is now the only non-Japanese film director that can be considered a veteran of giant monster movies.
Gareth Edwards directed one film before this, and he did it on a budget of less than $500,000. Godzilla's production budget is estimated at $160,000,000. And this time Mr. Edwards doesn't have to do all the special effects himself (he did on his previous film, Monsters). Anyway the point is that with all these resources he aught to be able to make a good movie.
The writers are iffy on this one. One is known best known for writing a movie that hasn't come out yet and the other is best known for The Expendables. But under this production team I trust them well enough.
Plus the trailer looks sweet.
Million Dollar Arm
And in this corner Jon Hamm of Mad Men fame!
Jon Hamm is a good actor. I like him in stuff.
Director Craig Gillespie seems to take work where he can get it. He doesn't stick to any type of movie. Either he's versatile or he doesn't really care.
Writer Thomas McCarthy also wrote Up and a few other things.
I don't know about this one. Marketing for it will have to work extra hard since that title makes everyone think of the six million dollar man.
The studio executives were like:
"We aughtta do, like, an inspirational true story type thing."
"Nah. As a genre those kind of died out."
"We can rebuild it. We have the technology."
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