[ZeoRangerV]

Yesterday Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures released a press release to announce the release date of director Gareth Edward's (Monsters) new Godzilla movie. Expected to be in 3D, it has a tentative release date of May 16th 2014, the same day as the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. However this is still quite a while away and release dates may be adjusted.

Check out the full press release after the jump!

Source: Collider.com

[ZeoRangerV]

Full press release:

THE ICONIC MOVIE MONSTER GODZILLA STOMPS INTO THEATERS ON MAY 16, 2014

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have slated their take on the classic Godzilla franchise to kick off the Summer moviegoing season on May 16, 2014. The joint announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, and by Legendary Pictures.

Toho Co., Ltd.’s Godzilla franchise contains one of the most widely recognized movie monsters worldwide, including more than 25 films, multiple television programs, video games and book series. Legendary, which has been developing the project, and its partner Warner Bros. will return the character to its epic roots with a gritty, realistic actioner. The project will fall under Legendary’s overall agreement with Warner Bros.

The film is directed by Gareth Edwards, who earned worldwide acclaim for his feature directorial debut, “Monsters.” Edwards directs from a screenplay by David Callaham (“The Expendables” films), David S. Goyer (the “Dark Knight” trilogy) and Max Borenstein (upcoming “The Seventh Son”). Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni will produce, along with Roy Lee, Dan Lin and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher will serve as executive producers alongside Doug Davison, Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, the film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, except in Japan, where it will be distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. The tent pole film is expected to be presented in 3D.

[PkmnMstr]

Awesome! Can't wait.

[Banba Soukichi]

here's hoping....

[Paladin]

I saw "Monsters" and it was awful. Not very hopeful with the same director attached to this.

[ComicGuy89]

I've been looking forward to this movie for quite a while, especially after their promises that the movie would be more faithful to the Japanese monster than be a radical adaptation like the Emmerich film. Hopefully we'll get to see a fantastic combination of American production values and Japanese ingenuity.

[Ravenxl7]

Should be interesting to see where they go with this movie. Though if they stick with that date, I'll be going to see the new Ninja Turtle movie at least once before thinking about going to see this. I've never seen any of the Director's work (doesn't seem to have done much at all so far), so I'm not exactly hopeful about this new iteration of Godzilla.