Legendary Picture's Godzilla Reboot New Writer: Max Borenstein

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Legendary Picture's Godzilla Reboot has a new writer working on the script. Max Borenstein will be polishing the script done by David Goyer, who's most well known for his work on The Dark Knight with Legendary Pictures. Despite the relative early stages of the film's production, certain plot points surfaced as well as certain elements of the film.

The History of the Project

The film company has already received a good reputation of bringing back old franchise characters with their Batman franchise which includes Batman Begins and The Dark Knight and already have high hopes of their film not being the same remake disaster as Roland Emmerich's film in 1998. The film, which originally began with Toho (the film company which created Godzilla) looking to release a 3D Godzilla film. Subsequent dealings with Legendary Pictures however ultimately resulted in Legendary receiving the rights for a reboot film which they announced in March 2010.

Borenstein is the latest addition to the project, which already includes director Gareth Edwards (writer and director of Monsters), producers Brian Rogers, Roy Lee and Dan Lin, executive producers Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira, Doug Davison, Thomas Tull and Josh Jashni. Borenstein is a relatively new writer who has done work with Legendary on their in-work Jimi Hendrix biopic as well as the supernatural fantasy The Seventh Son, based off of Joseph Delany's young adult book. Borenstein is the third writer which has worked on the project: the first draft written by David Callaham was announced scrapped in January 2011 when Edwards was also announced the director, with the script then falling to David Goyer and then finally for Borenstein to finish.

What to Expect

The film is still in development, but an interview with producer Brian Rogers did reveal a few things about the movie.

• Godzilla will be portrayed by computer-generated animation and not by suitmation as Toho has traditionally done.
• The movie will be a live-action film and not an animated film.
• The film will be a reboot that is not a sequel to Emmerich's 1998 remake and will pay homage to the original Godzilla films by Toho.
• Godzilla will fight another monster or monsters as he did in the original Toho films

The film is tentatively slated for a 2012 release, but the film still being in development stages more likely will put the film in a release in 2013.

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