In a recent interview, "Godzilla" film director Gareth Edwards compared the monstrous lizard to God when he was promoting the reboot to the classic movie franchise.

"Well, there's a reason his name begins with 'God,' I think. He is a god, really. He's at the top of the food chain and probably King of the World, in a sense. We did this title sequence at the beginning of the film filled with sea serpents, ancient Greek symbols, and that sort of thing, and the idea is that for all of time man has always found that there's something out there for us to worship or fear, and it's gone away for a while but in our film it returns," said Edwards to The Daily Beast.

Edwards also expressed his thoughts on what happens when mankind tries to play God and its effect on the planet.

"Yeah. Man vs. Nature is the predominant theme of the film, and I always tried to go back to that imagery. At the beginning when they find the fossils, it was important to me that they didn't just find them-it was caused by our abuse of the planet. We deserved it, in a way. So there's this rainforest with a big scar in the landscape with this quarry, slave labor, and a Western company. You have to ask yourself, "What does Godzilla represent?" The thing we kept coming up with is that he's a force of nature, and if nature had a mascot, it would be Godzilla. So what do the other creatures represent? They represent man's abuse of nature, and the idea is that Godzilla is coming to restore balance to something mankind has disrupted," replied Edwards.

Edwards also revealed that he agrees with fellow filmmaker Darren Aronofsky's message regarding global warming in the new "Noah" film.

"All stories are about something else. You examine this stuff deep enough and you eventually get into the realm of, "Why do we tell stories?" One of the theories is that we're born into the world and you know nothing and you haven't left your tribe but the elders have, so you ask them, "What's it like out there? How did you win? Who lost?" So they tell you all this stuff, and it's equipment to live your life by," said Edwards.

"In this day and age, it's turned into entertainment, but the desire to have a deeper meaning is still there. As we got into it, the message of Godzilla turned into, 'We should let nature take its course and shouldn't try to control it.' Stories have been used for a long time to smuggle the morals of the day inside them, and today, people are worried about global warming. In our film, the nuclear side of it was a concern with the things that have happened recently in Japan."

The "Godzilla" 2014 remake which stars "Breaking Bad" and "Malcolm in the Middle" star Bryan Cranston, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Ken Watanabe and Juliette Binoche will arrive in US movie theaters on May 16, 2014.