Frank Darabont, director of Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, has been brought on for a final rewrite of the Godzilla screenplay, just a few weeks before the Gareth Edwards directed reboot is due to go into production in March.
David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight Rises), Max Borenstein (The Seventh Son), and Drew Pearce (Iron Man 3) have previously worked on the script. While the project has gained another writer, it has also lost two producers, Dan Lin and Roy Lee, who initially secured the rights from the Japanese company Toho. They’re apparently now in a bit of a war with the film’s production company, Legendary, presumably over compensation.
Although bringing Darabont on and losing two producers could be a sign of problems with the production, it’s easily possible these are just normal changes, with Frank asked to do a final polish before production gets underway.
Darabont has been keeping busy with television projects over the last few years, creating The Walking Dead and his new series L.A. Noir. His last work on the silver screen was Stephen King’s The Mist in 2007, which he wrote and directed.
Godzilla is due for release May 16th, 2014. (Source: Deadline)
With a May 16th, 2014 release date set for Legendary Pictures’ remake of Godzilla, it’s full steam ahead on the movie, but it appears work still needs to be done on the script, as 
Legendary Pictures has been slowly working on a reboot of Godzilla, and for the last couple of Comic Cons have been teasing the film. However it’s always seemed to be quite a way off, but now things are moving forward, as Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have set a May 16th, 2014 release date for the film, and confirmed that the movie will be in 3D.
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