Last week, director Gareth Edwards spoke about his forthcoming Godzilla movie in a lengthy Q&A.

[I watched] the Hanna-Barbera cartoon when I was really little, with Godzooky, Edwards said.

Thats the comedy go-to joke for all my friends about the film Im making.

They always call it Godzooky.

For a while, as a kid, I couldnt understand that theyd dubbed these things.

I thought it was just really bad audio.

I thought, Why cant they get this right?

And then a bit later I realised that the Japanese make films in Japanese.

And so that balances back out again.

That doesnt matter if you have 10p or $200m, its just as hard for everybody.

And thats what weve focused all our time on, and tried to get right.

That was something, Edwards said, that was considered at length before a page of script was written.

WithGodzilla, you could kind of do anything you want.

That was a bit paralysing to start with, because what are you going to do?

We have this amazing opportunity, so what do we do?

We brainstormed it for ages, and circled around a million ideas.

That if you mess with nature, youre going to lose.

Godzillatakes the assumption that were not the alpha predator.

What if theres something else?

Godzillas putting nature back in balance.

I thought it was going to be a really simple task to design Godzilla, Edwards said.

Hes already designed you just copy him, right?

But it took a year, the process of getting him right.

It was just this trial-and-error thing.

Im really proud of the way he turned out.

My biggest inspiration is music, usually, Edwards explained.

On my iPhone, I created a playlist as soon as this opportunity arose.

I threw on all my favourite tracks and soundtracks, and Id have this playlist on shuffle.

Id walk around at night trying to picture the movie, which is a great, fun exercise.

But Ive learned that making the movie isnt as much fun its hard work, and exhausting.

But thats the fun bit fantasizing about what would be really cool.

What youd get goose bumps from watching while sitting in the cinema.

Its so primal its as if the Devil made a track.

It feels as though youre going into hell, which is very appropriate for that scene.

Thats not in the movie, obviously.

Erik Aadahl did Godzillas roar, and it was a lot of back and forth, Edwards said.

And the original recording, theyve only really got one.

We asked Toho to send it over, but it doesnt do justice to the cinema experience of today.

Then wed get inspired again and do these really cool drawings.

So that was a big influence for me.Akira, I think, is amazing a visually stunning movie.

Matt introduced me to the originalAkiragraphic novels, and that was a really good resource for us.

What the hell am I doing here?

Edwards quietly asked himself.

He jokingly continued that he knew Cranston fromMalcolm In The Middle,and an episode ofAirwolfin 1986.