'Godzilla' 2014 Trailer Video 2 Released: Villain 'Muto' Revealed in Epic Monster Battle (WATCH)
The "Godzilla" 2014 trailer video no. 2 has been released, and it's revealed much more about the plot of the monster movie remake and who the real villain is behind all the destruction. Warning: potential spoilers for the film are ahead.
The "Godzilla" Asia trailer, which was released worldwide Monday, begins by revealing that somehow, humankind has been keeping an enormous monster under lock and key – but it isn't Godzilla.
"Whatever it is that's in there – whatever it is their guarding so carefully – it's real," Bryan Cranston, who plays Joe Brody, a nuclear physicist, says. "God help us all."
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While it isn't immediately clear what the monster is or where it came from, the name of the kaiju was already revealed by the toys and other merchandising for the movie: Muto. There also could be more than one of the winged beast, which rapidly begins destroying the planet in some awesome CGI scenes.
Here's where Godzilla comes in.
"Can you kill it?" Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson of the "Kick-A--" films) says.
"I believe something can," replies Ichiro Serizawa (Ken Watanabe).
During the minute-and-a-half trailer missiles are shot at Godzilla as viewers get to witness the gigantic creature in its full glory. Godzilla and Muto are so enormous that tsunamis are created in their wake. Finally, Watanabe's character utters the line that dwarfs even the fear-filled, "Breaking Bad"-esque lines of the previous trailer:
"Let them fight," he says – and it's Godzilla vs. his huge, winged opponent.
The Gareth Edwards-directed film merges actual history with the original 1954 Japanese film to create a different origin story for the gigantic creature. When the U.S. military was testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean in the 1950's "Godzilla" posits that they were actually trying to destroy the monster.
"They were trying to kill it," says Watanabe, who plays a Japanese official in the movie.
"The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in our control, and not the other way around.
It's possible that while the same radioactive weapons failed to kill Gozilla, they also created Muto.
"Godzilla," which also stars Elizabeth Olsen and Juliette Binoche, opens on May 16. To see the trailer, click below.
