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"Godzilla" To Be Remade - Again 
March 29, 2010 The giant Japanese monster is getting the Hollywood treatment — again. This time Legendary Pictures will do an American Godzilla movie, based on Toho Company’s legendary monster. The studio, which is behind the upcoming Clash of the Titans, has made it clear it won’t be a sequel to the 1998 film that Sony and Roland Emmerich made. (That movie starring Matthew Broderick grossed close to $400 million worldwide.) Rather, it will be a re-imagining of the original Godzilla movies. Legendary has plans to announce a director for the film soon. The movie — which Legendary hopes to release in 2012 — will be a co-production and co-financing deal with Warner Bros, and Toho will distribute the film in Japan. http://hollywoodinsider.e...-pictures/ | |
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when is the re-imagining of mothra?  | |
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Since the last one sucked so much, the thought of them trying again actually doesn't bother me, since they have a better idea of what NOT to do. | |
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Was Godzilla ever good?
People should just skip Godzilla altogether and go rent The Host--a much better movie in that vein. | |
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Efan said: Was Godzilla ever good?
People should just skip Godzilla altogether and go rent The Host--a much better movie in that vein. I kind of have to agree with you a little bit. I say skip over most of films and see the host, as it is a well craftyed kaiju film. Toho has kind of lost faith in Godzilla, the last few have been boring by-the-books films. Godzilla: Final Wars tried hard to be different, but it was a mess. Toho has been consistently outdone by other companies for the past two decades in their home country, whether it's stuff like Ultra Galaxy of the Ultraman series or the Gamera films. It shows too, Ultraman still makes a killing in Japan even when Godzilla fails. But, the series has a fair share of good films like the original Japanese edit of Gojira, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Godzilla vs. Biollante and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah are films. I'd recomended them to people outside of the fandom as well. All in all, i'm excited. The series desperately needs a shot in the arm or something to make it fresh again. As a huge Japanese daikaiju (giant monster fan), this is the most excited i've been in a while. EDIT: I just noticed Yoshimitsu Banno is the exec producer. This is good, he made my personal favorite Godzilla film and he makes weird, really weird films. [Edited 3/29/10 17:19pm] I still play pokemon. I play warcraft. And I'm awesome. | |
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Spinzilla said: Efan said: Was Godzilla ever good?
People should just skip Godzilla altogether and go rent The Host--a much better movie in that vein. I kind of have to agree with you a little bit. I say skip over most of films and see the host, as it is a well craftyed kaiju film. Toho has kind of lost faith in Godzilla, the last few have been boring by-the-books films. Godzilla: Final Wars tried hard to be different, but it was a mess. Toho has been consistently outdone by other companies for the past two decades in their home country, whether it's stuff like Ultra Galaxy of the Ultraman series or the Gamera films. It shows too, Ultraman still makes a killing in Japan even when Godzilla fails. But, the series has a fair share of good films like the original Japanese edit of Gojira, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Godzilla vs. Biollante and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah are films. I'd recomended them to people outside of the fandom as well. All in all, i'm excited. The series desperately needs a shot in the arm or something to make it fresh again. As a huge Japanese daikaiju (giant monster fan), this is the most excited i've been in a while. EDIT: I just noticed Yoshimitsu Banno is the exec producer. This is good, he made my personal favorite Godzilla film and he makes weird, really weird films. [Edited 3/29/10 17:19pm] You seem to know a lot about this genre. It's cool to see someone so pumped. 
I'm generally pretty apprehensive about remakes these days, but somehow I'm kinda happy to hear about this one, too. Like FauxReal, I'm banking on the fact they'll use the 1998 flick as a guideline for what NOT to do. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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Lammastide said: Spinzilla said: I kind of have to agree with you a little bit. I say skip over most of films and see the host, as it is a well craftyed kaiju film. Toho has kind of lost faith in Godzilla, the last few have been boring by-the-books films. Godzilla: Final Wars tried hard to be different, but it was a mess. Toho has been consistently outdone by other companies for the past two decades in their home country, whether it's stuff like Ultra Galaxy of the Ultraman series or the Gamera films. It shows too, Ultraman still makes a killing in Japan even when Godzilla fails. But, the series has a fair share of good films like the original Japanese edit of Gojira, Godzilla vs. Mothra, Godzilla vs. Biollante and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah are films. I'd recomended them to people outside of the fandom as well. All in all, i'm excited. The series desperately needs a shot in the arm or something to make it fresh again. As a huge Japanese daikaiju (giant monster fan), this is the most excited i've been in a while. EDIT: I just noticed Yoshimitsu Banno is the exec producer. This is good, he made my personal favorite Godzilla film and he makes weird, really weird films. [Edited 3/29/10 17:19pm] You seem to know a lot about this genre. It's cool to see someone so pumped.
I'm generally pretty apprehensive about remakes these days, but somehow I'm kinda happy to hear about this one, too. Like FauxReal, I'm banking on the fact they'll use the 1998 flick as a guideline for what NOT to do. Yeah, Godzilla was my first big obsession.  I hope this film does give Godzilla some box office popularity again, as 6 out of the last 7 films have barely made even in their home country. The last film "Godzilla: Final Wars" was such a disappointment that Toho is both pissed and embarassed about the outcome. It had a budget of 20 million (that's huge for Japanese films) and I don't even think it made half of that back. And that was a big deal because it was Godzilla's 50th anniversary and had huge marketing behind it.
I'm excited, but cautious at the sametime. The first American attempt was bad a best. As long as they don't give it to another brain dead director like Emmerich I think we'll be okay. Hell, i'd prefer someone like Michael Bay over him, at least Bay made transformers 2 a fun (but dumb) film, which is all I wanted out of a transformers film. I still play pokemon. I play warcraft. And I'm awesome. | |
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