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'Evangelion' and 'Attack on Titan' directors team up to create 2016 'Godzilla' movie

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By Scott Wilson, RocketNews24

Do you like "Evangelion?" Do you like "Attack on Titan?"

Well then, good news! Thanks to the success of the 2014 Hollywood "Godzilla" movie, Japan has decided to make an even bigger and better version of its own, enlisting the help of Hideaki Anno (of "Evangelion" fame) and Shinji Higuchi (special effects director for the upcoming "Attack on Titan" live-action movie) as the director and special effects director respectively.

Anno and Higuchi have been friends for over 30 years, but this will be their first full-scale motion picture produced together. Higuchi is no stranger to the "kaiju" world, having worked on the 1984 "Return of Godzilla" and the ’90s "Gamera" films. Both directors want to give their all to make a film that will let Japan reclaim its position as the center of the giant-monster world.

That’s a lot of pressure to face, and it almost made Anno not want to accept the role as director/writer in the first place. He was initially offered the position in January 2012, but after the release of "Evangelion 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo," he fell into a deep depression and was not emotionally up to the task. Now, over two years later, he’s changed his mind and joined the team after learning that his friend Higuchi would be working on it as well.

Higuchi himself has been terrified of the expectations that are surrounding the first Toho "Godzilla" film to be released in over 12 years. Regarding the matter he said: “Being able to work with my friend is the only thing keeping me from running away from all the pressure.” But, just to make it clear that neither he nor Anno plan on letting a little stress get to them, he added: “We’ll have an amazing, horrific nightmare of a movie ready for you next year.”

The only other information that we have about the movie so far comes from a “Godzilla footprint” released with the tagline that “this footprint comes from a Godzilla even bigger than the 108-meter tall Hollywood one.” So if you had any thoughts about the upcoming Godzilla not being huge, consider them… squashed.

Filming for the movie is planned to start in spring 2015, and the release is scheduled for summer 2016.

Source: CINEMATODAY

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The movie will be about Godzilla talking with his therapist about the redundancy of his identity and the empty meaninglessness of his entire life.

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