Gareth Edwards In Japan, Feels Like "Surrogate Mother"

Above, the Godzilla statue at Toho Studios. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Godzilla director Gareth Edwards was in Japan for Godzilla's 60th anniversary and attended an event at Toho Studios where a new mural of Godzilla was unveiled.

Japan Today reported:

TOKYO —As excitement builds in Japan for a Hollywood reboot of Godzilla, the new film’s director said Thursday he felt like a “surrogate mother” who was returning a baby to its home. 

Hollywood giant Warner Bros put the fate of the classic behemoth—originally a Japanese film—in the hands of Briton Gareth Edwards, who made independent sci-fi flick “Monsters” in 2010. 

Godzilla’s latest incarnation has been appearing on screens in the United States and 60 other countries and territories since mid-May, storming straight to the top of the global box office on its opening weekend. 

It had racked up nearly $180 million in North America alone by early June, but screening in Japan, set for July 25, comes at the very end of its global release rollout.

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