Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich was born on the 10th of November 1955. He is a German film director and producer. He is famously known for his disaster and action films.

Before Producing Godzilla, he was the executive producer for the film 'Independence Day' starring Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum.

TriStar and Centropolis Film Production felt Roland was a good candidate to produce and direct this film. They could have chose him due to the sucess of his previous film Independence Day,1996. 

Independence day which made an astonishing 800m dollar worldwide profit. Both production companies felt Emmerich was successful enough to produce another worldwide blockbuster again.