Godzilla 2014 & Godzilla: King Of The Monsters

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

OK, so the first American Godzilla film was pretty much garbage but hey, they're going back to the well, this time with Monsters director Gareth Edwards at the helm.

Bleeding Cool posted a single, solitary image from the movie here. But given that this thing is still in pre-production and not slated for release until 2014 who knows if that's preliminary CGI work or what.



That teaser that appeared at Comic Con over the summer was cool. There's a 'recreation' here:

And a panel from Comic Con here:

And then there's this poster...

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

Hate to say it but what's the point? I doubt you could do a gritty and serious Godzilla flick because... It's Godzilla. He's identified as a silly rubber monster known for kiddie monster movies and an early allegory for the Atomic Bomb. A more "believable" and maybe "scary" flick has already been done with Cloverfield. Not that I'm a fan of Cloverfield but that's the best example I can think of. And if you make it gritty and make Godzilla vicious it would lead to fan backlash because the character is strongly identified as ironically Japan's champion and hero to children.

They could make another B flick that doesn't suck like the last remake though.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Hate to say it but what's the point?

Money. There's a built in audience just ready to be exploited!

I doubt you could do a gritty and serious Godzilla flick because... It's Godzilla. He's identified as a silly rubber monster known for kiddie monster movies and an early allegory for the Atomic Bomb. A more "believable" and maybe "scary" flick has already been done with Cloverfield. Not that I'm a fan of Cloverfield but that's the best example I can think of. And if you make it gritty and make Godzilla vicious it would lead to fan backlash because the character is strongly identified as ironically Japan's champion and hero to children.

Except that Ishiro Honda proved you wrong with the first movie. Not to say that the character hasn't been made into a kid's movie icon but the first movie is bleak, dark, and wonderful. Having been lucky enough to have seen it projected on the big screen, it still inspires some seriously dark mood and it works very well if you can look past the rubber suit aspect.

They could make another B flick that doesn't suck like the last remake though.

Which is (if we're lucky) what this will probably wind up as. I don't expect it to be as serious as those behind it are claiming it will be. I don't have enough faith in Hollywood.

[Roderick Butthorn Find all posts View Profile Close Roderick]

I liked Monsters well enough so I'd say this has potential to be halfway decent.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

Money. There's a built in audience j

Except that Ishiro Honda proved you wrong with the first movie. Not to say that the character hasn't been made into a kid's movie icon but the first movie is bleak, dark, and wonderful. Having been lucky enough to have seen it projected on the big screen, it still inspires some seriously dark mood and it works very well if you can look past the rubber suit aspect.

BUUUUTTTT that was the first movie. The character is now established as a kid-friendly hero. Same as Jason is now established as an unstoppable zombie killer who always walks despite the fact that he was mortal and would jog in the early films.

[Apronikoff Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Apronikoff]

BUUUUTTTT that was the first movie. The character is now established as a kid-friendly hero.

Ehhh...not really. At least not among Godzilla fans. I know that the casual American viewer is most familiar with that era of Godzilla films from all the Saturday afternoon TV showings, but it actually represents a minority of the films and Godzilla hasn't been presented that way in a long time. In Japan there were three series: the Showa, Heisei and Millennium series. The cartoonish, kid-friendly Godzilla that you're talking about is basically the latter part of the Showa series. For the past thirty years the films have been a lot darker (especially in the Millennium series). So I definitely don't think it's a betrayal of tone to do a dark, relatively "serious" Godzilla film. (serious insofar as it takes the concept seriously.)

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Yup. GMK was pretty dark in spots. Biollante has some very dark moments too.

[Alex K. Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Alex K.]

Well I'll be damned.

[Roderick Butthorn Find all posts View Profile Close Roderick]

You can also look to the Gamera trilogy to see a great example of taking a kid oriented kaiju franchise and successfully presenting it in a much more serious tone.

[Robert W Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Robert W]

Another pathetic attempt to ca$h in on another classic film series.

Will this new film be in anyways an improvement over its Japanese predecessors? No. Will it be an unwatchable mess of ugly cgi? Yes, undoubtedly.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

Give em a chance.....At least its not the INDEPENDENCE DAY guy doing this one!!

I am all for giant monster movies of ALL levels of quality....Just dont make it BORING!!!

[Terry C Tiger Fists Find all posts View Profile Close Terry C]

I thought Monsters was godawful so I can't say I'm the least bit interested in this one.

[sukebanboy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close sukebanboy]

Suddenly got MORE interesting???

(Mike Fleming at Deadline) did drop a rather large bomb that none other than Frank Darabont has been hired to write the latest draft of the script.

[Horace Cordier Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Horace Cordier]

Shawshank Zilla!

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Bryan Cransto and Elizabeth Olsen added to the cast?

http://www.avclub.com/articles/bryan...adline:default