{"id":92193,"date":"2016-10-21T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T08:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=92193"},"modified":"2016-10-21T09:34:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T08:34:42","slug":"godzilla-2-brings-krampus-writers-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/godzilla-2-brings-krampus-writers-on-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla 2 brings Krampus writers on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <em><strong>Godzilla 2<\/strong><\/em> sadly won&#8217;t feature Gareth Edwards in the director&#8217;s chair, it has nonetheless moved to bring some writers with real monster-making experience on board in the form of Michael Dougherty and Zach Shields.<\/p>\n<p>Dougherty&#8217;s name is the one that commands the most recognition, having written and directed the brilliantly chilling Xmas horror <em><strong>Krampus<\/strong><\/em> and inventive anthology scarer <strong><em>Trick &#8216;r&#8217; Treat<\/em><\/strong>. They may not be the kind of monsters who could go toe-to-toe with Godzilla, but it&#8217;s still relevant transferable experience that he can bring to the table. Coupled with time on the writing teams for both <em><strong>Superman Returns<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/strong><\/em>, and it looks like he could be a good fit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92196\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92196\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-92196 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Godzilla-2-Michael-Dougherty.jpg\" alt=\"godzilla-2-michael-dougherty\" width=\"750\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Godzilla-2-Michael-Dougherty.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Godzilla-2-Michael-Dougherty-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Godzilla-2-Michael-Dougherty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Godzilla-2-Michael-Dougherty-616x347.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Dougherty will co-write Godzilla 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also on board is Shields, who worked with Dougherty on <em><strong>Krampus<\/strong><\/em>, and while he has less experience on the writing side than his <em><strong>Godzilla 2<\/strong><\/em> partner (among his other credits is sountrack work on <em><strong>The Conjuring 2<\/strong><\/em>), his experience reflects the determination to reunite an effective team.<\/p>\n<p>While a director and additional cast members are yet to be announced (there&#8217;s no word on whether Aaron Taylor-Johnson or Elizabeth Olsen will be reprising their roles, or indeed who the new director will be), <strong><em>Godzilla 2<\/em><\/strong> represents a change of direction in that it will share a universe with the upcoming <em><strong>Kong: Skull Island<\/strong><\/em>, with the eponymous ape due to be sharing a movie with him at some point (that point being 22 May 2020). While our thoughts are mixed on the whole mixed-universe trend that is permeating cinema (it works for some and not for others), we wouldn&#8217;t be entirely honest if we said we weren&#8217;t ever-so-slightly looking forward to the prospect of the two facing off on the big screen. Let the games begin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Godzilla 2<\/em> will be released in cinemas on 22 March 2019. For all the latest movie news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/scifinow-issue-125.html\">pick up the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godzilla 2 has brought on two people who know how to write monsters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":92197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3951],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Godzilla-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}