I wanted the action scenes to be more memorable. Some of the criticism leveled at monster movies is that it’s always just monsters smacking each other and rolling around. We allow the topography of the battle locations to guide us. For me, it was the first time as a filmmaker I was able to open myself up to unlimited imagination. On a big-budget movie like this, it’s the opposite. When you’re doing low-budget indie films, you’re constantly saying, we can’t afford to do this, so we can’t even think about doing it. You have to know that you’re not bigger than the franchise and you have to be able to tell the story you want to tell and put as much of yourself in it, but it has to work within the framework that you’ve been handed. Was it daunting to move from indies and lower-budgeted horror movies to a big-budget franchise? This is the biggest film you’ve ever made. So there won’t be a Snyder Cut of “Godzilla vs. You’re going to get an extra hour of people talking about monsters. At the end of the day, if you’re going to make this movie into three hours, you’re not going to get an extra hour of monsters fighting. I think if you do a movie over two hours, you better have a damn good reason for it to be that long. Did you struggle to keep the film’s running time at two hours?Ī lot of the fans online were all asking me is this going to be a three-hour film? When it was announced that it was a little under two hours they immediately thought - when is the director’s cut coming out? I like movies under two hours. It’s a movie for kids, too, so I put myself in the mindset of when I was a kid and remember the attention span that I had then.
We don’t want to waste anyone’s time, so we had these big movie throws where you have a line and then you’re off to the next thing. Would there be an interesting sequence about how do you get a 300-foot gorilla on a boat? Maybe, but that’s going to take awhile and you might be better served going to the next big sequence. Because we had these two characters to follow, it allowed us to just stay focused on the most interesting moments. The details of how you get from one place to another are less interesting than the big moments and this film is all about creating totally dense entertainment. A lot happens in this film - we go all over the world, we go into the Earth, we go everywhere. It allows you to bounce around in interesting ways. It gave me a clear pathway for how to focus this story. Was it hard to tell a story that gave equal weight to both King Kong and Godzilla?
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