A sad news from Hollywood today for Godzilla fans. Director Gareth Edwards, the person most responsible for the revival of the Kaiju universe with the reboot of Godzilla, has left the sequel project.
And it's weird too because Legendary and Warner Bros. Pictures specifically (or so they say) delayed the release of this sequel by a whole year just so that they can have Edwards direct it after he's completed Rogue One: A Star Wars Story for Walt Disney Pictures.
And now the studios are delaying it for yet another year from 2018 to 2019, this will harm the movie more than doing it any good because by 2019 it would have been five years from the original which was released in 2014.
I thought Edwards directing was a done deal, but now the report from Deadline is saying the split is an amicable one and that Edwards is going to pursue his own passion project; which totally doesn't make sense. Why would he have agreed to do the sequel in the first place if he wasn't all that interested in the first place and then making the studios delay the release of the sequel from 2017 to 2018. And now the new date is 22 March 2019. So there must have been more going on than it is reported.
But ultimately, Legendary has already got a plan in place for a Godzilla and King Kong crossover. Kong: Skull Island - said to be a prequel - will arrive on 10 March 2017. It will be followed by Godzilla 2 on 22 March 2019 and then the two will finally clash in Godzilla Vs Kong on 29 March 2020.
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