Frank Darabont recently revealed some of his plans for Legendary's upcoming Godzilla reboot, which he is rewriting. But unlike some incarnations of the Japanese kaiju, Darabont hopes to bring the creature back to its former glory as an unstoppable wrecking ball of horror.
"What I found very interesting about Godzilla is that he started off definitely as a metaphor for Hiroshima and Nagasaki," Darabont explained to io9 in an interview. "And some of the atom bomb testing we were doing in the South Pacific in the subsequent years. The giant terrifying force of nature that comes and stomps the s#!t out of your city, that was Godzilla. Filtered through the very fanciful imaginations of the Japanese perception. And then he became Clifford the Big Red Dog in the subsequent films. He became the mascot of Japan, he became the protector of Japan. Another big ugly monster would show up and he would fight that monster to protect Japan. Which I never really quite understood, the shift.
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