In short, Gondry loves the book but having worked on a screenplay version with a number of collaborators, considers it too literary. It won’t work on screen, he doesn’t think.
They wanted Liam Neeson and now they’ve got him. Screen Daily reports Neeson is confirmed to play the titular tree monster in Juan Antonio Bayona’s adaptation of Patrick Ness’s beautiful and frightening and heartbreaking children’s book A Monster Calls.
The story is about a boy named Conor, who find his mother’s declining health and increasingly bullying from classmates overwhelming, retreating into a nightmarish fantasy world in his sleep in which the tree in his backyard comes to life as a monster and tells him strange stories. Felicity Jones has been cast as the mother, so we just need a boy for Conor and this will be well on its way.
AND ADGY SHAKES HIS FIST AT THE SKY!!!!!
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Review: Beautiful and badass, Godzilla puts the awe back in awesome
Reviews starting to drizzle out, this is one of the more positive ones. Reading a few negative ones too that all seem to point to the same flaws(bad character motivations, tone being very different from what the trailers present) a little nervous that my expectations may be too high, as usual.
Speaking of, all the monsters in the movie are treated with care, not just the title character. The bad guys come across as sympathetic, just animals trying to stay alive, which is a touch I loved. If Godzilla is the homeowner that'd scoop up the spider and put it gently outside, the Mutos are the ones that whip out the can of Raid and lay down the law Apocalypse Now napalm style. Neither one considers humans a real threat, but the Mutos are annoyed with them and don't step with care, if you catch my drift.
They're just dickish enough for us to root for Godzilla, but sympathetic enough to give them a little extra flavor than just being the punching bags during the big fight scenes.
Godzilla gets a hell of a reintroduction here. I would say it's the best he's been treated by America thus far, but that's kind of a low bar, isn't it? The trailer for this Godzilla is better than the whole of the '98 film. I can see Edwards returning for a sequel that goes a bit Destroy All Monsters and if he does that I'm going to lose my **** a little bit. All I ask is they figure out their human characters a little more. I know it's kind of tradition for Godzilla's human characters to be exposition machines, but I think that's something you could stray from a bit and not p*ss off too many people.