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So...there's some Frank Darabont treatment in the movie!

"And Frank Darabont, he came in and gave a pass of the screenplay about two or three months before we started filming. A lot of his work remains in the film, but a big part of it is when the doors close on Juliette Binoche – this whole idea that there’s a gateway or a check point they have to get through, and that it would close, and you would see her die, and we’d have that very emotional moment. That was his biggest contribution. It’s the emotional peak of the film, potentially. That’s why he’s Frank Darabont." -- Gareth Edwards, the Director of GODZILLA (2014)

And even from Andy Serkis:

"We called Andy Serkis very late in the day, towards the end of post production. [Effects house] MPC did pretty much all the Godzilla effects shots in the movie, and there’s a limited time to get everything right, and hand animation is a slow process. To do back and forth reiterations… it takes at least a day or longer to animate something well. So using a real actor, and having a conversation with one, taking their performance and saying, 'Copy that, we'd like that!' was a fast way to reach a solution.
So Andy came in for the key, soulful Godzilla moments: when he fell, when he looks at Ford, things like that. So we could use the same eye movement, the same eye darts, to try and give it some soul."-- Gareth Edwards

Source: empireonline.com