Godzilla 2014 Trailer Video Released: Bryan Cranston Warns 'You Have No Idea What's Coming'
The "Godzilla" trailer was released yesterday, and the update on the classic movie about the King of Monsters has amped up the scale of destruction considerably since the widely panned 1998 version. "Godzilla" stars Bryan Cranston as Joe Brody, a nuclear physicist who is one of the few to recognize the real danger of the beast.
The two-and-a-half minute long "Godzilla" trailer hardly features the gargantuan lizard, but it does show the wake of destruction it leaves behind it in New York, Japan, and Las Vegas. Unlike the other Godzilla films, though, the government seems to be trying to blame the carnage on typhoons, earthquakes and other natural disasters.
"You're not fooling anybody when you say that happened was a natural disaster," Brody says. "You're lying. It was not an earthquake, it wasn't a typhoon. Because what's really happening is that you're hiding something out there— and it is going to send us back to the Stone Age!"
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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 Ken 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," he adds grimly.
The huge beast dwarfs skyscrapers, swats down fighter jets, stomps over entire neighborhoods and tears through buildings with ease throughout the trailer. Even though not much of the story is revealed, humankind at least attempts a response with paratroopers dropping fast through a blacked out and stormy sky.
"Godzilla," which also stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen, opens on May 16.
