Godzilla has gotten quite a bit taller since the last time he fought King Kong. Even back then, he could have easily stepped on and squished the original King Kong, who got a substantial size upgrade so they'd be on roughly equal terms for the fight. It'll be interesting to see what they do about the size difference this time, it may be somewhat odd to see an ape famous for climbing a building now towering over most of them.
Toho is making their own Godzilla movies again!
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I've got it! Follow the precedent of Marvel's old Godzilla comics, which were actually fully integrated into the Marvel Universe and had Godzilla battling various Marvel characters, mainly a SHIELD task force led by Dum Dum Dugan. There was actually a storyline in the comic where Godzilla was temporarily shrunken to various sizes and was able to fight characters like the Thing and Devil Dinosaur on their own scale (no pun intended). So the movies could follow suit -- work out a co-production deal between Legendary Pictures and Disney/Marvel, integrate Godzilla and King Kong into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and have Hank Pym show up and shrink Godzilla, or enlarge Kong, or both, to the point that they can fight each other.
Plan B: Cross Godzilla and Kong with Pacific Rim and have Kong and Ann Darrow drift together to pilot a Jaeger in the form of Mecha-Kong.
Plan C: Jet Jaguar teaches Kong how to "reprogram" himself into a Godzilla-sized giant. (In the German dub of Godzilla vs. Megalon, Jet Jaguar was actually called "King Kong," despite being a robot rather than a giant ape.)
Plan D: King Kong vs. Minilla.
Plan B: Cross Godzilla and Kong with Pacific Rim and have Kong and Ann Darrow drift together to pilot a Jaeger in the form of Mecha-Kong.
Plan C: Jet Jaguar teaches Kong how to "reprogram" himself into a Godzilla-sized giant. (In the German dub of Godzilla vs. Megalon, Jet Jaguar was actually called "King Kong," despite being a robot rather than a giant ape.)
Plan D: King Kong vs. Minilla.
Forget Kong, SHIELD vs Godzilla would be awesome.
But they've only got the one Helicarrier left, so they'd have to be careful...
It's official: GvsKK is coming in 2020.
Variety| 'Godzilla Vs. Kong' Set for 2020 as Monster Franchises Unite
So, Monarch is this universe's S.H.I.E.L.D., huh?!
Variety said:
Variety| 'Godzilla Vs. Kong' Set for 2020 as Monster Franchises Unite
So, Monarch is this universe's S.H.I.E.L.D., huh?!
From astoundingbeyondbelief on tumblr "From Katsuro Onoue's Twitter, looks like this is the real deal."
^Looks like they're sticking with the Shin Gojira title. Not a working title anymore, then?
Shin Gojira is the Japanese title. If the movie is released in the US, it'll be called Godzilla Resurgence.
As for the above image, the director said they were going for a scarier look for Godzilla, and I think they succeeded. There's also a fairly close resemblance to the 1954 original.
As for the above image, the director said they were going for a scarier look for Godzilla, and I think they succeeded. There's also a fairly close resemblance to the 1954 original.
I prefer how the eyes and head looked in past movies from 2000
So, is this supposedly the finalized design? Not complaining, just asking.
Godzilla has displayed multiple rows of teeth before, particularly during the 90s, but these are the most jagged, haphazard arrangement of "pikes" I've yet seen lining his mouth. VERY intimidating! Also, are his eyes here proportionally the smallest we've ever seen them? (Not counting the two US versions, of course.) Throughout the 60s into the 70s, the eyes were designed ever larger until he had an almost "Muppet-like" cuddly countenance by "...Megalon". These beady peepers give him a coldly disdainful glare.
Translation: "He's a MEAN lookin' mutha-f..."
"Shut yo' mouth!"
"I'm just talkin' about Gojira."
"We can dig it."
Sincerely,
Bill
Godzilla has displayed multiple rows of teeth before, particularly during the 90s, but these are the most jagged, haphazard arrangement of "pikes" I've yet seen lining his mouth. VERY intimidating! Also, are his eyes here proportionally the smallest we've ever seen them? (Not counting the two US versions, of course.) Throughout the 60s into the 70s, the eyes were designed ever larger until he had an almost "Muppet-like" cuddly countenance by "...Megalon". These beady peepers give him a coldly disdainful glare.
Translation: "He's a MEAN lookin' mutha-f..."
"Shut yo' mouth!"
"I'm just talkin' about Gojira."
"We can dig it."
Sincerely,
Bill
It evokes the original design. A hideous byproduct of atomic bombs
Teaser trailer
[YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOSFZG9-KQ[/YT]
Teaser trailer
[YT]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOSFZG9-KQ[/YT]
Not quite. In the original film, Godzilla was not created by the bombs; he was a member of a species that had survived since prehistoric times in the ocean depths, much like the coelacanth. The people of Otoshima had worshipped and sacrificed to him as a god for generations. The Marshall Islands nuclear tests displaced him from his normal feeding grounds, driving him to seek new food sources in Japan. Apparently they also made him radioactive, hence his atomic breath. And this same thing happened to three known members of the species: the original Godzilla killed in the first film, the second Godzilla featured from Godzilla Raids Again through Terror of Mechagodzilla, and Minilla, the juvenile member of the species. (Something very similar also happened to the giant octopus in Ray Harryhausen's It Came from Beneath the Sea, a year after Gojira. Those selfsame Marshall Islands tests contaminated a naturally occurring giant octopus, and the fish it preyed upon could sense its radioactivity and were able to flee its approach, so it had to seek out new food sources that couldn't sense radioactivity, such as humans.)
The idea of Godzilla as a mutant created by atomic radiation didn't come along until Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah in 1991. That movie retconned the proto-Godzilla into a land-dwelling "Godzillasaurus," a therapod dinosaur about twice the size of a T. rex, that was mutated into a giant form by exposure to the radiation from atomic weapons. This was after the previous two films in the Heisei-era reboot continuity established that Godzilla actually fed on radiation and radioactive materials.
First off, "Gojira" and "Godzilla" are just different transliterations of the same Japanese syllables. In the '50s, the preferred romanization scheme rendered them as go-dzi-la, and a second L was added for aesthetics or clarity (and probably because the name was partially derived from "gorilla"). In the more modern romanization scheme, those same three syllables are rendered as go-ji-ra. But they're both pronounced exactly the same in Japanese, about halfway between the two spellings with the syllables stressed about equally. (Although when characters in the Japanese films speak English, or when signs and graphics are printed in English, they almost always use the spelling "Godzilla" and the American pronunciation of the name.)
Second, most of the movies from the past three decades have taken Godzilla seriously. The '54 original was the most serious and thought-provoking, a powerful allegory about the ethics and consequences of weapons of mass destruction; the '55 sequel, by contrast, was just a rather dull disaster movie with no deeper message. The later movies in the '60s and '70s became more aimed at children and increasingly goofy for the most part. But the 1984 reboot was very serious, an allegory on the nuclear brinksmanship of the superpowers and the frustration of other nations like Japan who were caught in the middle. The remaining films of the '80s and '90s -- the Heisei era -- were mostly fairly serious, with the exception of the abysmal Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla, which was rather a throwback to the '70s. The Millennium-era films that began in 1999 tended to be pretty serious and dark. The namesake film Godzilla 2000: Millennium had a very nihilistic ending. Two films later, the movie nicknamed GMK was a dark and biting allegory on modern Japanese culture's whitewashing of the crimes of Imperial Japan before and during WWII, with Godzilla representing the souls of the Imperial war machine's victims come back to inflict vengeance on Japan. It was also, in parallel, a satire of the way Godzilla himself had come to be seen as cuddly and harmless, and a return of the character to his most malevolent form. The whole Millennium series was pretty serious in tone except for Final Wars, which was full-on gonzo crazy and campy.
Still, I hope this new series of Japanese Godzilla films (and it will be a series of films, like the other Japanese Godzilla revivals) will make their way into the Western market in some form.
I definitely agree with this.
Sadly, all we'll see is home video releases instead of big screen ones of these.
They actually didn't retcon anything, the '84-'89 Godzilla is a different Godzilla from the Showa version. And really the idea that the original Godzilla was a hybrid dinosaur was mere speculation, there was no proof to back any of that up.
Actually he was mutated by the atom bomb in the original film. He was originally suppose to be a metaphor for nuclear weapons, Director Ishirō Honda said so himself:
Well, to be fair, that particular quote only proves Godzilla was meant as an allegory for the atomic bomb, not that he was mutated by it.
I do remember from the bonus features from the Classic Media DVD of the original movie, though, that the design of Godzilla in that movie, particularly his skin was supposed to look like he was disfigured by the radiation. From the same concept came a popular fan theory that Godzilla is in constant pain, resulting in his aggressiveness.
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