@Alel  
What Gareth Edwards meant is what would happen if Godzilla really did attack. It’s basically going for the same route as the 1954 film in that it’s not what’s causing the destruction, it’s about the reactions and the consequences.

My reaction to seeing that picture when it was leaked. “Holy shit, that’s Godzilla!”

This is one reason I like tv meme, it lets me know about amazing things like this. Ever since Foal Free got that new editor the stories just can’t catch my interest anymore, and the Canterlot Chronicle has turned into a tabloid pop-obsessed shill, so I don’t bother with the papers anymore. I always miss the latest developments because the papers are clogged with so many useless or poorly written articles :{

(fixed) I agree with Alel, the original Japanese Godzilla movies were far more believable and plausible than Roland Emmerich. And that’s a bad sign when a movie series which has giant butterflies with laser antennae, three-headed space dragons, aliens, blackhole guns, giant plant-human-reptile hybrids and giant caterpillars that shoot lasers from their eyes and horns (it’s a long story) is far more plausible than a movie about New York’s military trying to eliminate a pest problem in the form of a giant CGI, asexual, fish-eating iguana.

I agree with Alel, the original Japanese Godzilla movies were far more believable and plausible than Roland Emmerich. And that’s a bad sign when a movie series which has giant butterflies with laser antennae, three-headed space dragons, aliens, blackhole guns, giant plant-human-reptile hybrids and giant caterpillars that shoot lasers from their eyes and horns (it’s a long story) is far more plausible than a movie about New York’s military trying to eliminate a pest problem in the form of a giant CGI, asexual, fish-eating iguana then you’ve practically failed at something.

@Alel, Yeah but my statement still stands. This movie will return Godzilla to his allegorical roots. It will showcase what would actually happen if a dinosaur that breathes fire (in the teaser there’s burning holes in some buildings with some of them with melted metal so yeah, he’s gonna breathe fire), immune to military weaponry and is the size of a skyscraper existed.

“Realistic” doesn’t mean anything nowadays, people use it for whatever they want. The 1998 movie wasn’t realistic; the monster wasn’t scientifically posssible at all, and the story wasn’t believable at all, people just like to repeat the word “realistic”.
 
I find many Godzilla films, in the way the characters react, to be far more “believable” and immersive than the 1998 movie, too bad people just make up an idea of all the Godzilla movies, without really watching them or paying atention to them, when comparing them to the 1998 one and others…
 
Honestly, we had six movies after the 1998 one. I say it’s time to move on.

I also read a description from Gareth Edwards that Godzilla 2014 will be “grounded and realistic”. Before any of you jump on the bandwagon and whine about how this is going the 1998 route, let me make one thing perfectly clear. He’s going to make this film the Kaiju version of Battle: Los Angeles. While that movie could have been better, I liked the idea; an alien-invasion movie but with a very gritty and realistic feel to it as if asking “what if this was real”. Also, Godzilla 1954, aside from the sci-fi elements such as Godzilla himself and the Oxygen Destroyer, had a very realistic feel to it. Also, let’s not forget the new IDW Godzilla continuity (Kingdom of Monsters and Ongoing) which does have some fantasy elements (psychic twins, King Ghidorah, Battra, SpaceGodzilla, Mothra and giant monsters waking up for no explained reason to name a few) but the impact those monsters had on our civilization and the outcome once those monsters went back into dormancy were fairly realistic. It, again, asked the question “What if these monsters that we grew up with in our childhood were real and attacked in modern day? How would we react? How would we try to cope with that? What would be the consequences?” That’s what Gareth Edwards and Legendary Pictures are trying to go for. They are honoring Tomoyuki Tanaka and Ishiro Honda’s original intent for Godzilla. They are respecting the character.

In 1998, we had a director who made lots of event movies, hated the original Godzilla films and his own “take” on Godzilla nearly made the Big Guy a laughing stock.
 
In 2014, we have a British-born director who made only one movie on a very low budget which was more character and atmosphere-driven than it was special effects, loves Godzilla to death and hopes to return the Big G to his dark and gritty roots.
 
The ironic thing, both directors’ last names start with an “e”.

OUR KING HAS RETURNED! LONG LIVE THE KING OF THE MONSTERS!

“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.”
 
SKREEEEEOOOOONNK!

OUR KING IS BACK!

July 14th, the day every Godzilla fan shit their pants in joy.

Hail to the King, (of Monsters!) baby!

Spread the word, people. Godzilla is coming back.

New record!

“101” godzilla pics?  

Nope, that is the actual Godzilla. Note the spikes.

I was expecting Shadow of the Colossus 2.  
Dissapointed.

that looks like Zilla, tell me is Zilla JR.