Collider: You have obviously produced a number of geek friendly properties and you are very involved in the movie industry, what is the coolest movie swag that you have in your office, if you can identify one or two things?
Tull: The original maquette from our upcoming Godzilla movie and the original models of Gypsy Danger from Pacific Rim.
Collider: Del Toro told me that when he’s making a movie he will often spend money out of his own pocket to make a second edition of everything being produced, the maquettes and everything else, so he has everything, and I think he told me that you were also getting a set of everything, is that true?
Tull: That is true. We have the same disease and I think our wives have a support group to complain about the amount of geek swag and maquettes scattered throughout the house. Yeah, it unfortunately is true.
Collider: I recently saw the Godzilla footage from the first day of filming on YouTube, which I thought was really cool. I like that you guys were sort of lifting the veil of secrecy on the first day and saying, “Hey were on set and you’re going to get more of these.” Is that something we can be expecting for more Legendary films?
Tull: Look, we want to make sure that we’re connecting with our fan base. We want to make sure that you’re appropriately surprised and have something to look forward to when you go to see the movie. You don’t want to see all the way behind the curtain, but we want to make sure that we’re connecting with our fan base. We want to make sure our fan base knows how passionate we are and how important it is to us to bring these things to life and that were just as big of fans as you guys are. We want to connect, and in a world of social media and the outlets we have, we want to come up with all kinds of ways to have fans share the excitement and the experience as it builds towards launch.
Collider: I definitely want to talk about the fact that I’m tremendously looking forward to Pacific Rim, as you know, I’m also tremendously looking forward to Godzilla. You guys are making two really big monster movies, was there any concern on your part to make two movies that feature big monsters, or do you think the technology now has finally reached a place where you can tell these stories in a way that hasn’t been done before?
Tull: I think it’s a little bit of both. The movies are very different tonally. Pacific Rim is a big, giant world that was created, and when somebody sits down with me and says, “Look, we’re going to get to work with Guillermo and it’s giant robots versus giant monsters.” We’re in, we’re doing that. So that’s a movie where you obviously sit back and take all that in and enjoy the ride. Godzilla, it was very important for us to take it back to its original DNA in the first Japanese film, so just tonally it’s a much different movie. And with Godzilla, those of us who grew up with Godzilla, you kind of bring whatever pre-disposition you have to the movie and the experience. For us, all I can tell you is that were making the Godzilla movie that we want to see. So I’m not worried at all because they’re just completely different.
