GODZILLA IRRADIATES ANOTHER WRITER

Well, at least they're not rushing into production with a script they're not satisfied with. That has to be a good sign, right?

I'm just thrilled to hear Big G will actually be spending the movie battling it out with another monster rather than looking for a nice sporting venue in which to lay eggs.

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Originally Posted by Princess Kate 

Well, at least they're not rushing into production with a script they're not satisfied with. That has to be a good sign, right?

My thoughts exactly!  I'm really glad they didn't insist on making a 2012 release, otherwise we'd have had the possibility of getting a Godzilla film even worse than the Emmerich version.

What sucks is that this movie is wasting a good four years of Gareth Edwards' career.

Zollicoffer, WHY?  If his Godzilla is a...Monster hit, then he will have the possibility of a Godzilla Sequel, and possibly his pick of projects.  Maybe he will be the one to direct a...Great and Successful US Godzilla film. Godzilla has had...29 films since 1954.  This is one of the biggest Franchises ever.

I'm sure he could fit in another directorial effort beforehand if he really wanted to.  He's supposed to be producing Monsters 2, but beyond that I don't think he has anything else in the works.

He was developing something with Timur Bembektovev, and that was supposed to be something genre-ish but with a manageable budget. Maybe that moves forward.

I really doubt this will go into production before the latter half of next year, so if he gets his butt in gear there is no reason why he can't squeeze in another film before actual shooting begins on Godzilla.

I'm a huge Godzilla fan and I want Legendary to get this right. Take all the time you need.

All I want is a rip-roaring good time.  Is doesn't need to be deadly serious..............but it doesn't have to be cheesy as hell either.  The franchise itself has already run the gamut of tonal changes anyway.  We went from a bleak moral tale in the original film to about 20 years later where his nemesis is doing pollution bong hits off of factory smokestacks.  Find a happy medium and crank the carnage to the max.  That's all we need.

But isn't Godzilla so inherently Japanese that an adaptation into an American context loses all weight? 

King Kong is our boy. He's the African slave trade, he's the poor rising up to tear down the elite, he's nature abused and ultimately destroyed. Godzilla is nuclear fallout and, in the later years, the kind of camp that Americans haven't been down with in years. 

Guess we can make it more grim & gritty. Maybe have Godzilla's wife get raped or something. 

Bartleby_Scriven, I prefer...Godzilla!  The Big G has more interesting capabilities, than Kong.  Kong isn't bulletproof, he doesn't breathe fire, and doesn't cause all the collateral damage that Godzilla specializes in.  Godzilla can hate on the US as much as Japan.  The bomb was property of The USA!  I would...Love to see a...US Godzilla film where he fights one of his classic foes, embraces his goofy side, and fights our military and not the sci fi division.  If a sequel is made...Then The Big G could fight Martians or whomever.

Plus Kong is a wus.

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Originally Posted by Bartleby_Scriven 

But isn't Godzilla so inherently Japanese that an adaptation into an American context loses all weight? 

 

King Kong is our boy. He's the African slave trade, he's the poor rising up to tear down the elite, he's nature abused and ultimately destroyed. Godzilla is nuclear fallout and, in the later years, the kind of camp that Americans haven't been down with in years. 

Kaiju have been co-opted in a post 9/11 era on US shores. See CLOVERFIELD (and, well, there's MONSTERS sorta). Disaster is disaster, regardless of culture. But yeah, G-man feels genuinely Japanese.