remember the crappy american godzilla movie, the one with mathew broderick and jean reno, and a godzilla that was as un-like godzilla as it could be? you remember, the one where instead of laughing off hundreds of rockets from japanese fighter planes and then pushing over a skyscraper, he was actually KILLED by half a dozen rockets from couple of fa-18s, after he got tangled up in the wires on a suspension bridge?
well, thanks to having licensed godzilla to tri-star, but kept all the rights to the character in-house, toho can do whatever they want with that shitty american version of godzilla.
like making him one of the villains in the upcoming 50th anniversary godzilla movie,
alien invaders come to take over the earth, and pit godzilla against many of his classic enemies, including the shitty american godzilla, who is referred to here only as ‘zilla’, being unworthy of the ‘god’ part of the name. additionally, the real godzilla will be toho’s trademark suit-mation(aka a guy in a suit) while ‘zilla will be cgi.
who will win? like there’s any question here. i (heart) toho.
Hee hee - that will be a lot of fun to watch.
August 31st, 2004 at 1:35 am