During this year's SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, the design studio Mondo released a new poster for the 2014 version of the upcoming monster film "Godzilla," Yahoo! Movies reported. The new promotional material, which was designed by Phantom City Creative, depicts a mondo-style Godzilla that appears to be made out of smoke and towering over a city.

The designed was based on the original version of the giant reptilian monster from the 1954 Ishiro Honda film. As part of the upcoming film's release, director Gareth Edwards hosted a screening of the Japanese version at the Ritz Alamo Theater in downtown Austin last night. Apart from the seeing the original film, attendees were also treated to 40 minutes of unseen footages from the American edit and were handed a limited edition of the poster.

But as Cinemablend pointed out, the new poster and two trailers of the film still doesn't give audiences a full look of the monster. Most of the time, its' covered in smoke, hidden behind shadows or only close-ups of its body parts are shown. But in the April issue of Empire Magazine, a full view of the monster is presented in the cover. It shows the titular monster, standing in front of soldiers as a helicopter and paratroopers fly toward it.

A new image still of Bryan Cranston from a scene in the film was also released. In the image, Cranston, who plays the scientist Joseph Brody, is looking at a photograph with a distressed look on his face. Cosmic Book News reported that Brody's connection to the main monster and other Kaiju creatures15 years ago will be revealed in the film.

The new "Godzilla" is scheduled for release in 2D and 3D on May 16 of this year. Cranston will be joined by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Ken Watanabe in the film.

According to Legendary Pictures, the film is "an epic rebirth to Toho's iconic Godzilla, this particular adventure, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence."