Avengers Cinematographer to work on Godzilla!

Some good news that most sci-fi/comic book websites seem to have skipped over is that the cinematographer on The Avengers, Seamus McGarvey, is hired to work on Godzilla!

Why is this important?

Because a cinematographer's job is making sure that the movie looks right, and based on the work that Seamus did on the Avengers it looks like the Godzilla film is in good hands.

He made the movie look like a perfect geek/comic-book film, with enough of a hybrid fantasy/realism to not take itself too seriously while also dabbing in some fun.

There was a perfect mixture of dark and light colors at play here.

That's the right mix that a film like Godzilla needs.

When one thinks about it the role of a cinematographer is perhaps the most important up-front work around.

If the movie doesn't look right one notices it right away.

It's why movies like Heat, Terminator 2, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, etc., all have such a fantastic look. Their cinematographers literally made them into moving portraits of art.

In any case I only came across this when browsing through some ew.com article, which you can find here:

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