Reboots of popular film titles can go one of two ways: they can either take the best parts of the original and spin it in an exciting new direction or they can completely miss the mark. Thankfully for director Gareth Edwards, look his new reboot of Godzilla was able to intrigue audiences enough to become king of the box office this past weekend to the tune of $93.2 million, remedy the second highest stateside opening this year after Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

After filming documentaries, patient a TV movie and a short, Edwards first broke onto the film scene in 2010 with a small science fiction thriller, Monsters, before crossing over to the mainstream and making Godzilla. Now the British director is on his way to helming more box office tentpoles, including the just announced Star Wars spinoff, due in December 2016.

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