Godzilla stomping back to theaters

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Godzilla stomping back to theaters via Legendary

By Ace Fernandez
Well, well, well ... look who's getting back in fighting shape.

Everyone's favorite gigantic, havoc-wreaking lizard, Godzilla, is on his way back to the big screen via Legendary Pictures, which has acquired the rights to develop and produce a new feature based on the iconic Toho Co. character. Warner Bros. will co-produce, co-finance and distribute through its deal with Legendary, and Toho will roll out the film in Japan.

Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Brian Rogers are also producing; Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira and Doug Davison will be executive producers on the project.

The last major Godzilla outing, an American, New York-set version from Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, grossed $376 million worldwide in 1998 despite fielding equally major criticism. Toho quickly produced "Godzilla 2000," in which the big beast took on an evil UFO, the following year.

But the Godzilla franchise juggernaut has survived decades of permutations (he first appeared in 1954), dozens of films, books, video games and merchandising tie-ins and seems perpetually ready to rear up again for new audiences.

The new film is shooting for a 2012 release.

"Godzilla is one of the world's most powerful pop culture icons, and we at Legendary are thrilled to be able to create a modern epic based on this long-loved Toho franchise," said Thomas Tull, chairman and CEO of Legendary. "Our plans are to produce the Godzilla that we, as fans, would want to see. We intend to do justice to those essential elements that have allowed this character to remain as pop culturally relevant for as long as it has."

Added Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, "Godzilla is emblematic of the kind of branded, event films for which Warner Bros. and our partners at Legendary are best known."

The two companies have partnered on such global properties as "Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight," "Superman Returns" and "The Hangover," which have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. Together, they have a remake of "Clash of the Titans" stomping into theaters Friday.

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Originally Posted by Wildcat2005

I have heard a few people say that Rodan is the monster with wings in the movie

He is a kind of pterodactyl I believe

From everything I've read they don't have the license to any of the toho characters other than Godzilla but do have some kind of deal in the works if a sequel happens.

The problem is it's sammitched' in between other nerd movies like Spiderman 2 and the new X-Men flick. X-Men will surely pull from the Godzilla numbers...

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Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Need 90s Godzilla movie suggestions

http://www.godzillatemple.com/index2.htm

GOJIRA (GODZILLA).................................................1954, 97m
GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS....................................1956, 80m
Nuclear testing awakens Godzilla whose rampage through Japan
can only be stopped by one scientist.

GOJIRA NO GYAKUSHU (COUNTERATTACK OF GODZILLA)....................1955, 82m
GIGANTIS, THE FIRE MONSTER aka GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN aka
GODZILLA'S COUNTERATTACK..........................................1959, 78m
Another Godzilla, named Gigantis, and an "Anguilasaurus" are
freed from suspended animation and battle to the death in Osaka.

KINGU KONGU TAI GOJIRA (KING KONG VS GODZILLA)....................1962, 98m
KING KONG VS GODZILLA.............................................1963, 90m
Godzilla is freed from his imprisonment in an iceberg and
encounters a recently escaped King Kong. The two monsters
battle in Tokyo.

MOSURA TAI GOJIRA (MOTHRA VS GODZILLA)............................1964, 89m
GODZILLA VS THE THING aka GODZILLA VS MOTHRA......................1964, 90m
Godzilla awakens from his subterranean slumber and must be
subdued by Mothra.

SANDAIKAIJU CHIKYU SAIDAI NO KESSEN (THREE GIANT STRANGE
CREATURES GREATEST DECISIVE BATTLE ON EARTH)......................1964, 93m
GHIDRAH, THE THREE HEADED MONSTER.................................1965, 85m
The powerful space monster Ghidrah attacks the earth and the
earth's only defense is the combined might of Godzilla,
Rodan and Mothra.

KAIJU DAISENSO (STRANGE CREATURE GIANT WAR).......................1965, 94m
MONSTER ZERO aka GODZILLA VS MONSTER ZERO aka INVASION OF
THE ASTRO-MONSTER.................................................1969, 94m
Aliens from Planet X attempt to conquer the earth by
controlling King Ghidorah, Godzilla and Rodan.

NANKAI NO DAIKETTO (SOUTH SEAS' GIANT DUEL).......................1966, 87m
GODZILLA VS THE SEA MONSTER.......................................1966, 85m
Shipwrecked sailors discover a secret nuclear weapons plant
and it's defender Ebirah. They also find and awaken a sleeping
Godzilla.

GOJIRA NO MUSUKO (GODZILLA'S SON).................................1967, 86m
SON OF GODZILLA...................................................1967, 86m
An egg is found on tiny Sogel island which hatches a baby
Godzilla, Minya. Godzilla arrives to protect his offspring from
mutated insects.

KAIJU SOSHINGEKI (STRANGE CREATURE ALL ATTACK)....................1968, 89m
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS..............................................1968, 89m
In the year 1999, monsters have all been confined on Monster
Island until one day, eleven monster simultaneously attack the
major cities of the world.

ORU KAIJU DAISHINGEKI (ALL STRANGE CREATURES GIANT ATTACK)........1969, 70m
GODZILLA'S REVENGE aka GODZILLA'S LEVERAGE........................1971, 70m
A young boy on the run from criminals learns about courage
from Godzilla and Minya in series of dreams.

GOJIRA TAI HEDORA (GODZILLA VS HEDORAH)...........................1971, 85m
GODZILLA VS THE SMOG MONSTER......................................1972, 85m
Godzilla must defend Japan from a monster created by rampant
pollution.

CHIKYU KOGEKI MEIREI GOJIRA TAI GAIGAN (EARTH DESTRUCTION
DIRECTIVE GODZILLA VS GIGAN)......................................1972, 89m
GODZILLA ON MONSTER ISLAND aka GODZILLA VS GIGAN..................1978, 89m
Godzilla and Angilas must stop an alien invasion led by King
Ghidorah and a new adversary, Gigan.

GOJIRA TAI MEGARO (GODZILLA VS MEGALON)...........................1973, 82m
GODZILLA VS MEGALON...............................................1976, 82m
The undersea city of Seatopia sends their monster god,
Megalon, and Gigan to conquer the surface. Godzilla
must end their attack with the help of the robot Jet Jaguar.

GOJIRA TAI MEKAGOJIRA (GODZILLA VS MECHAGODZILLA).................1974, 84m
GODZILLA VS THE COSMIC MONSTER aka GODZILLA VS MECHAGODZILLA aka
GODZILLA VS THE BIONIC MONSTER....................................1977, 84m
A mechanical Godzilla is constructed by aliens to destroy
the real Godzilla and his ally, King Seesar.

MEKAGOJIRA NO GYAKUSHU (COUNTERATTACK OF MECHAGODZILLA)...........1975, 83m
TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA aka THE TERROR OF GODZILLA................1979, 83m
Invaders from the Third Planet of the Black Hole rebuild
MechaGodzilla and enlist the aid of a scientist to send
Mecha-Godzilla and the newly discovered Titanosaurus against
Godzilla.

GOJIRA (GODZILLA).................................................1984, 103m
GODZILLA 1985.....................................................1985, 90m
30 years after GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS, Godzilla
reappears, more powerful and deadlier than before.

GOJIRA TAI BIORANTE (GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE)......................1989, 104m
GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE............................................1989, 104m
Godzilla is freed from his volcanic imprisonment and only a
strange product of rose, human and Godzilla DNA can stop Godzilla.

GOJIRA TAI KINGU GIDORA (GODZILLA VS KING GHIDORAH)..............1991, 103m
GODZILLA VS KING GHIDORAH........................................1998, 89m
Time travelers tamper with Godzilla's past and create King
Ghidorah to decimate Japan. Japan's only hope is Godzilla.

GOJIRA TAI MOSURA (GODZILLA VS MOTHRA)...........................1992, 103m
GODZILLA VS MOTHRA: THE BATTLE FOR EARTH.........................1998, 102m
Two monsters, Mothra and Battra, resume their centuries-old
battle while Godzilla rampages through Japan.

GOJIRA TAI MEKAGOJIRA (GODZILLA VS MECHAGODZILLA)................1993, 108m
*** no U.S. release at this time ***
The United Nation Godzilla CounterMeasures Center (UNGCC)
creates an awesome robot to end the threat of Godzilla and the newly
discovered Rodan.

GOJIRA TAI SUPESU GOJIRA (GODZILLA VS SPACE GODZILLA)............1994, 105m
GODZILLA VS SPACE GODZILLA.......................................1999, 108m
A sample of Godzilla cells are sucked into a black hole and
the result, a hideous monster, attacks Godzilla and the newest
UNGCC anti-Godzilla robot, MOGERA.

GOJIRA TAI DESUTOROIA (GODZILLA VS DESTROYER)....................1995, 103m
GODZILLA VS DESTROYER............................................1999, 90m
A monster born of the Oxygen Destroyer, a weapon used to
defeat Godzilla decades ago, battles a Godzilla on the verge of a
nuclear detonation.

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Originally Posted by unlurking

Was hoping the breakdown would explain 1:36 of the trailer but it didn't. Any thoughts?

Because of some of the quick cuts there's no guarantee that shot is directly related to the one that came before or after.

The only reason I'd see for guys parachuting in would be no safe place to land due to the destruction...

[Molitoth]

Wow, this actually looks good!

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Originally Posted by Molitoth

Wow, this actually looks good!

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Originally Posted by |Zach|

Not sure how this could possibly end up being a good movie.

[bowener]

Anytime "Lux Aeterna" is used well in a film, I get hard. I love it.

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Why did Edwards chose Hamburg for presenting 20 minutes from the hotly anticipated new movie Godzilla? Apparently not for marketing reasons. Gareth Edwards personally decided on Hamburg for nostalgic reasons, since his directorial debut Monsters premiered in Hamburg for the Fantasy Film Festival in 2010.
http://nerdbastards.com/2014/02/28/g...minute-review/

Spoiler!

We have seen these scenes, and talked to Gareth Edwards, and this is how much we can tell you: The initial scene takes place in a nuclear power station in Tokyo. Something goes wrong, and nuclear physicist Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) is able to avert a disaster. However, he has to deal with a personal loss. 15 years later we return to the same nuclear power station. This time the physicist in charge is Daisuke Serizawa (Ken Watanabe). Brody is sitting in an interrogation room.

He is accusing colleagues from the power station as well as the government to hush up something… The reason for the incident 15 years ago was not an earthquake. It was something much worse, something they created that is returning. Moreover, Brody wants his son Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-
Johnson) back. Bryan Cranston delivers these emotional scenes convincingly.

As we have already learned watching the trailers, Ford is part of a special unit of the army in charge of delivering a certain radioactive load by train that is supposed to have an effect on the monsters or the threat they are posing. We cannot tell you what effect, however, you have read this correctly: the monsters! plural! Edwards kindly asked us not to reveal what their appearance.

The skydiving sequence from the trailer was also shown in Hamburg, but with additional scenes and edited differently. The additional footage contained something enormous, or to put it in Gareth Edwards’ words: “When you want to watch a movie with a kaiju like Godzilla, you don’t just want to see it fighting humans.” Gareth Edwards also mentioned being a huge fan of Pacific Rim and Guillermo del Toro, who told Edwards how much he enjoyed Monsters. According to Edwards, they have met before and are exchanging ideas constantly. Just think of a crossover: Godzilla vs Gipsy Danger! The rumor mill starts here… Edwards stressed that his monsters will be more detailed than the ones in Pacific Rim thanks to Weta. Moreover, he put a lot of attention on not using impossible camera perspectives in the movie, i.e. “Each shot looks like there is a camera team on the ground, on a roof or filming from a plane. Since you can place CGI cameras anywhere, you tend to select impossible perspectives, and therefore quickly lose any tangible connection to the action,” said Edwards.

We were impressed by the gloomy and grim pictures. They reminded us a little of Cloverfield – only better. Seeing Godzilla, the monster itself, on the big screen in all its magnificence calms our skeptical Godzilla-fanboy hearts. “The mixture of the heads of a bear and a dog in connection with the majestic eyes of an eagle” so Edwards, that make up Godzilla’s head, come close to the original,and transports the monster to present day.

Production on the movie is in its final phase now, we were told. On Monday (March 3rd) sound recording will start, while the last CGI shots are being finished right now, and the 3D conversion
process is starting. The 3D trailer was also screened in Hamburg, and looked great even without or because it was lacking forced pop out effects. Fans can look forward to a dark and monstrous Godzilla without the silliness that plagued the version of Roland Emmerich’s ‘T-Rex-Godzilla’, which “was no real Godzilla” as Edwards pointed out.

Gareth Edwards also mentioned being a huge fan of Pacific Rim and Guillermo del Toro, who told Edwards how much he enjoyed Monsters. According to Edwards, they have met before and are exchanging ideas constantly. Just think of a crossover: Godzilla vs Gipsy Danger! The rumor mill starts here… Edwards stressed that his monsters will be more detailed than the ones in Pacific Rim thanks to Weta.

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For some reason I can't get it to imbed.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/n...gareth-edwards

Scroll down to the bottom and there's a trailer breakdown with Director Edwards. Some cool stuff and a few rumors shot down...

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Rausch

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Rausch

For some reason I can't get it to imbed.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/n...gareth-edwards

Scroll down to the bottom and there's a trailer breakdown with Director Edwards. Some cool stuff and a few rumors shot down...

Wow, there's a lot of stuff in that. One thing I really took away from that is that thing that people suggested was a tentacle picking up a bomb is apparently not that at all. So then what is it? The first thing I thought of when I saw that is Mechagodzilla. I wonder if this will be something related to that? Of course I could be way off.

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Originally Posted by Lzen

Wow, there's a lot of stuff in that. One thing I really took away from that is that thing that people suggested was a tentacle picking up a bomb is apparently not that at all. So then what is it? The first thing I thought of when I saw that is Mechagodzilla. I wonder if this will be something related to that? Of course I could be way off.

Should embed now.

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Originally Posted by Lzen

Wow, there's a lot of stuff in that. One thing I really took away from that is that thing that people suggested was a tentacle picking up a bomb is apparently not that at all. So then what is it? The first thing I thought of when I saw that is Mechagodzilla. I wonder if this will be something related to that? Of course I could be way off.

Made me think of an egg case like an ootheca...

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Wow, there's a lot of stuff in that. One thing I really took away from that is that thing that people suggested was a tentacle picking up a bomb is apparently not that at all. So then what is it? The first thing I thought of when I saw that is Mechagodzilla. I wonder if this will be something related to that? Of course I could be way off.

I gotta admit, the hype is completely getting to me. I went from not even realizing this movie was coming out this year, to "meh, Godzilla", to "this could really be awesome".

With two young boys, I'll add it to my list of movies to see if the reviews (Rotten Tomatoes and you guys, not "movie critics") don't crush it. There are quite a few movies to see this year, htough, and X-Men comes out in the same timeframe I believe, so...

[Sure-Oz]

3D and 2D huh?