Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - !!SPOILERS!!

[GodzillaSpawn]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Oh good god. I hope that's not true. That doesn't really sound grim or that dark at all. Instead of Godzilla being the one, unstoppable villain mercilessly plowing through the city and killing people and having a very emotional climactic ending, the climax is going to be Godzilla vs the final stage of Muto and it'll turn into an action film. Visually, it will look cool. But I was hoping this one would follow the roots more.

Oh well.


All they have to do at this point is to not make Godzilla a ***** and it's already an improvement from 1998.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

On a more positive side....the cast sounds great. I forgot Akira Takarada is in this somewhere.

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

On a more positive side....the cast sounds great. I forgot Akira Takarada is in this somewhere.

Yeah, he's a Japanese Airport official, wonder if he'll be seen around when the planes are blown up in the trailer.

I also wouldn't assume this movie's going the way of the traditional G vs. film either, it may still be very much like Gojira. For one, who knows where that site got that synopsis from, that's the first I've heard of Muto origins. Also, write ups could make it sound like something and then what you actually see play out may be different, making it sound like a typical giant monsters fight film is better for marketing, even if that's not what they're making. I don't see Edwards going that way, if the movie takes that direction, my guess would be it comes from the studio more than him.

 

[GodzillaSpawn]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Yah I hope for the first film they don't. If Godzilla fights monsters, I hope he kills them early in the film than the ending is all about his characterization. Like King Kong. He fought beasts but the film never strayed away from it's atmosphere and mystique.

But, I got to see how it plays out. It just sounds too corny to be taken as seriously as I was hoping they were going for.

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Based on Edwards' interviews, the film is packed with metaphors about tampering with nature, be it genetics, nuclear energy, all of the creatures, no matter where they come from, will stand as nature's wrath against man, and I think the whole of the film will be man trying to survive it and stop it with any monster fights coming along as any animals crossing paths aggressively in nature would. I don't think we'll have a scene where the military's fighting mutos and suddenly Godzilla appears and saves the day, it'll just be nature unfolding.

 

[RavenEye]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

 

[Biojex]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I like that the comic doesn't show his feet

 

[crows]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I like that the comic doesn't show his feet

 

[Viking Spawn]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Perfect!!!!

 

[ironwez20]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

But they show 98 Godzilla's feet because they were designed perfectly.

 

[RIDDICK]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

They showed Zilla's feet in 93 and 97.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I like that the comic doesn't show his feet

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Take this all with a grain of salt, but I've read some spoiler hints off another forum from someone claiming to have a copy of an early draft of the script.

Interesting reads if you're curious, but again, unconfirmed source, even if legit, not the final script.

Spoiler

- Godzilla is of a prehistoric species, one frozen in the arctic, another somehow surviving.
- Frozen Godzilla doesn't look like the mutated one.
- The frozen Godzilla is called Jira, Japanese for whale, and there is a tale of islanders believing this creature to be their God, vague assembling of Gojira.
- Godzilla first appears in the fifties during the atomic testing around Japan and destroys U.S. military ships and is attacked with an atomic bomb and presumed dead, but it simply mutates him.
- Godzilla is like a tank and all you can do is get out of his way, completely unstoppable and very powerful.
- Godzilla is 600 feet tall.
- There is a battle between the military and Godzilla in which Godzilla shows wear and tear but is overall unharmed and unstoppable.

- Mutos are a prehistoric species from Godzilla's time that are natural enemies with Godzilla.
- Mutos are similar to Megaguirus.
- Mutos are a formidable foe for Godzilla.
- There are two different Mutos that evolve in form.
- One Muto is larger than the other.
- One Muto doesn't stand much chance against Godzilla but the other puts up a good fight.
- One of the mutos has a need to lay eggs inside Godzilla.
- Mutos hunt as a team and need Godzilla so they call to him to lure him out for their needs.
- Discovery of the arctic mutos and Godzilla leads the military to believe that the mutos would seek out Godzilla and kill him as they are frozen in a combative posture.

- Dr. Serizawa is an activist against tampering with nature and fears the consequences.
- Ending is classic Godzilla.

 

[jye4ever]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

4 months .....

I think MF, Bio, Godzillaspawn and myself need a group watching of this movie!

Who else lives close.

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Spoiler

Hmmm... not sure about the fact that they seem to have changed his origin slightly. Although I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that Godzilla was a normal lizard that got transformed from Nuclear radiation, not a prehistoric monster made bigger by radiation?

 

[MaulFan]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Spoiler

Hmmm... not sure about the fact that they seem to have changed his origin slightly. Although I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that Godzilla was a normal lizard that got transformed from Nuclear radiation, not a prehistoric monster made bigger by radiation?

Spoiler

Godzilla was a prehistoric creature awoken and mutated by atomic tests in the original film and the end alludes that continued atomic test could awaken another and that was the plot of the 2nd film Godzilla Raids Again.

 

[Dark_Knight_89]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Well there we go, I stand corrected!

 

[Kuzeh]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

I was looking at the list of upcoming movies this year, Godzilla and The Hobbit are definitely my most anticipated ones!!
Cannot wait!!! !

 

[RIDDICK]

Re: Legendary Pictures' GODZILLA - May 16, 2014

Spoiler

- Godzilla is of a prehistoric species, one frozen in the arctic, another somehow surviving.
- Frozen Godzilla doesn't look like the mutated one.
- The frozen Godzilla is called Jira, Japanese for whale, and there is a tale of islanders believing this creature to be their God, vague assembling of Gojira.
- Godzilla first appears in the fifties during the atomic testing around Japan and destroys U.S. military ships and is attacked with an atomic bomb and presumed dead, but it simply mutates him.
- Godzilla is like a tank and all you can do is get out of his way, completely unstoppable and very powerful.
- Godzilla is 600 feet tall.
- There is a battle between the military and Godzilla in which Godzilla shows wear and tear but is overall unharmed and unstoppable.

- Mutos are a prehistoric species from Godzilla's time that are natural enemies with Godzilla.
- Mutos are similar to Megaguirus.
- Mutos are a formidable foe for Godzilla.
- There are two different Mutos that evolve in form.
- One Muto is larger than the other.
- One Muto doesn't stand much chance against Godzilla but the other puts up a good fight.
- One of the mutos has a need to lay eggs inside Godzilla.
- Mutos hunt as a team and need Godzilla so they call to him to lure him out for their needs.
- Discovery of the arctic mutos and Godzilla leads the military to believe that the mutos would seek out Godzilla and kill him as they are frozen in a combative posture.

- Dr. Serizawa is an activist against tampering with nature and fears the consequences.
- Ending is classic Godzilla.

That... actually sounds pretty good. I only don't like...

Spoiler

... that some prehistoric arthropodas are natural enemies with dinosaur-like creatures and has a need to lay eggs inside them.

It's very stupid, even by 60s-70s standarts.