FOR SEAN KONRAD, GODZILLA IS something large, green and primal. “I know that I saw Godzilla at an age when I didn’t understand it all,” he tells SFX, remembering his first brush with Toho’s Tokyo-trampling kaiju superstar. “I think I saw the narrated American version on TV when I was seven or something. It was like, ‘Whoa, that’s scary!’, but I didn’t really grasp what an important thing it was.
“I think I really started appreciating Godzilla properly after watching Bong Joon-ho’s The Host, which is a really terrific, emotional movie in the way that the monsters are used. It made me start thinking about monsters as a parable. I went back to Godzilla and I’ve been a devotee since that point.”
A digital effects veteran with credits on everything from to , Konrad’s first professional engagement with Ol’ Atomic Breath came with 2014’s , the film that launched Legendary’s MonsterVerse. Returning for 2019’s , he’s now VFX supervisor on , the Apple TV+ series that charts the
