Back in the halcyon days of 1998, after a solid year of relentless blockbuster hype, Sony Pictures released an American remake of Godzilla, one the studio was confident would be the start of a long-lived, lucrative new franchise.  That didn't exactly work out, but Legendary Pictures is undaunted by that failure, and has been developing a new Godzilla remake that would hopefully correct the missteps made by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin last time.  The epic project has just snagged itself a new screenwriter, THR's Heat Vision reports, as Legendary has hired up and comer Max Borenstein to develop a new draft of Godzilla.

Guillermo del Toro is about umpteen different kinds of cool.  The writer/director responsible for Cronos, Pan’s Labyrinth, and the Hellboy movies is the type of director who has publicly vowed that he’ll never make a movie that doesn’t include monsters.  He’s currently in preproduction on his dream project, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness with producer James Cameron. 

You want to see something really scary?

Since we’ve been talking a whole lot of Sci-Fi thanks to The Brothers Strause latest Skyline, we’ve been thinking monsters! And since the monsters there look massively intense, it seems like a good time to revisit a few classic beasties!

The science fiction genre has presented a number of terrifying aliens, including those murderous monsters in Skyline. So iamROGUE.com has put together a list of some of the scariest in the SCIFI universe. We found a number of drooling, oozing, murdering creations that you can only hope never find their way to earth.

Monsters is not what you might expect. There are brief glimpses of creatures terrorizing what they call “infected areas” in Mexico, but they are very brief. In fact, this is a human drama more than a horror film. If the story revolved around war or some kind of disaster, natural or otherwise, it very likely could have been exactly the same movie (aside from the brief monster shots).

We begin with a photojournalist named Andrew Kaulder (Scoot McNairy) and a young woman he has been hired to bring back to the United States. The girl, Samantha Wynden (Whitney Able) agrees to go with him and face all the badness surrounding them. Normally, coming back from Mexico isn’t this hard. The problem is, six years ago aliens landed and took over the place. The area has been contaminated and infected by these pesky visitors since then. Bad news for our leads… well, sort of. They really don’t seem all that distressed about this fact.

Gareth Edwards’ first feature Monsters has been earning quite a bit of praise from critics, and is currently enjoying a solid run On Demand. The film (which stars Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy) is a post apocalyptic chiller that sees two healthy individuals forced to trek through a quarantined zone six years after an alien invasion has left the world in shambles.

The new teaser trailer for Gareth Edwards' low-budget wonder Monsters has just premiered at Apple.com, and it's definitely worth a look, so peep it below. Monsters, in case you're unfamiliar, was shot by newbie director Edwards for peanuts; the sci-fi movie utilized a two-man crew and a store-bought digital camera, while boasting realistic yet homemade special effects. Apparently, it cost somewhere in the neighborhood of under $10,000 to make. (And if you're thinking it's just another Paranormal Activity, check out the trailer to find out you're way off.) The flick, which has understandably drawn comparisons to District 9 (in terms of story), premiered to rave reviews at this year's South By Southwest Film Festival and has steadily gathered excited buzz ever since.

Magnolia Pictures/Magnet have released the third trailer for Gareth Edwards’ new low budget festival hit Monsters. Check it out below and leave your thoughts and comments!

Synopsis: Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures… Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his bosses daughter, a shaken American tourist (Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border.