MUMBAI: Gareth Edwards, who had directed the indie sci-fi movie Monsters has been taken on board to direct the remake of creature feature Godzilla, centered on the giant city-destroying and monster-fighting lizard that is being developed at Legendary Pictures.

While the film is being produced by Legendary‘s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni along with Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Brian Rogers, Warner Bros. will the film.

On the other hand, Max Borenstein has been tapped to write the remake of the film. Borenstein, who just turned in his script for Art of the Steal for Warner Bros is well acquainted with Legendary. He worked on the company‘s in-development Jimi Hendrix biopic, Jimi, and rewrote the outfit‘s supernatural fantasy The Seventh Son.