A leaked first trailer for the Godzilla reboot has been posted online, an impressive minute-and-a-half teaser that shows the destruction the Kaiju has wreaked upon a city.

The clip was first shown at Comic Con, with Legendary Pictures playing a game of digital whack-a-mole to stop it spreading around the internet ever since.

In fact the embed above is likely to disappear imminently so we’ll fill you in: it sees gorgeous shots of a city with chunks torn out of it, set to the words of father of the atomic bomb J., Robert Oppenheimer, who narrates: ‘We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed, few people cried, most people were silent.

Godzilla is shown in silhouette at the close of the trailer (Picture: Legendary/Metacafe)

‘I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture… Vishnu takes on his multi-armed form and says, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.’




Director and relative newcomer to films of this scale Gareth Edwards has done a sterling job with the teaser, and cinema-goers are set to get the full trailer later this month, with rumours suggesting that it has been loaded onto the front of The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen star in remake, along with (expect many ‘Oh sh*t, it’s Heisenberg!’ exclamations in the cinema) Bryan Cranston.

A skyscraper with a Godzilla-shaped hole is shown in the teaser (Picture: Legendary/Metacafe)