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Sorry to be that guy but there's a slight correction needed in the intro paragraph.  Weta WORKSHOP not Weta Digital helped out with the creation. Plus they were in NEW ZEALAND while the director was in the UK. 

All this info is in the actual interview.  Just an idea but perhaps you better listen to your own interviews before you write up the introductions.  It might help you look like you know what you're talking about.

@GTBetta35

To be fair a new movie hasn't officially been announced yet. It's simply likely, especially since the magazine is owned by Kadokawa. If it is a new movie it will most likely not be from an American production company, but Daiei themselves with traditional effects work.

I suppose there is indeed something for everyone in this genre. I don't think these movies hold enough merit for repeat viewings...

Update: While we are still unclear of the exact storyline and everyone is coming up with their theories on the origins of the MUTOs etc, it seems more hints have been outed by Gareth Edwards in his interview with Verge.

I understand that while there were people who find my theory on the MUTOs and Godzilla plausible, there were others who dismissed it altogether, especially on the part where I said Godzilla may have been leeched on by a micro-organism in the ocean which was later on mutated by cross-experiments by scientists on land which went out of control.

In the interview, G Edwards talked about the design of the MUTO monsters, where he said they were designed in such a way that when people looked at them, they could see that it was ' evolved from the same organism'. 

Wow, this is a great interview!  I knew WETA was involved somehow, but it looks like their involvement is pretty extensive!  They have created some of the most incredible and beautiful creatures of the modern era, and thinking about what they have done with Godzilla gives me goosebumps!  Every time Gareth Edwards opens his mouth, my confidance in this film grows.  We very well could be looking at the next visionary director/storyteller/creator of this generation.  Its incredible thinking of what this man is capable of, with this film and beyond, and I truly trust him with Godzilla's legacy.  And you heard the man... its up to us to see that a sequel is made.  And I'm sure there isn't anyone on this site that needs to be asked twice to see this movie!

Thank you for sharing this with us all! :D

So hyped! Loving this interview!

What about the return of Godzilla 

This was hilarious! :D But poor Shogo!  That whole dubbing thing was kind of insluting, but it looks like it was filmed with parody and fun in mind, so if he was down with it, its cool. :)  Plus, that video they showed was great!  Very emotional. :') And funny!  Any compilation that includes that shot from "Megalon" of Godzilla with his "peace" fingers is good in my book!

That is cool Patrick Stewert is a G Fan, I didn't known that. G FANS UNITE!

huh

Great topic!  It's hard to beat the original Godzilla's head peaking over that hill on Odo Island, but Terror of Mechagodzilla's entrance is rediculously awesome!  Mothra vs Godzilla has one of the best too!  I also like Godzilla's arival in Godzilla vs Hedorah, where he lumbers in front of the setting sun.  Its a great visual!  But for nastalgia, I'm gonna have to go with Godzilla 2000 though. :) Foggy night, a shrouded boat hovers through the air, and then... THE EYE!  Just perfect!  :D

Wow, this sucks.  I've had that book pre-ordered since August. :/ If I hadn't read this I wouldn't have known my order had been canceled.  Thank you so much for the heads up.  I just re-pre-ordered it.  Hopefully it sticks this time.

gohdsilla pls

How has no one commented on this?!?!?!?!  This is a great interview!  Every time Gareth Edwards opens his mouth, my confidance in this film grows.  We very well could be looking at the next visionary director/storyteller/creator of this generation.  Its incredible thinking of what this man is capable of, with this film and beyond, and I truly trust him with Godzilla's legacy.  And you heard the man... its up to us to see that a sequel is made.  An I'm sure there isn't anyone on this site that needs to be asked twice to see this movie!

Thank you for sharing this! :D

Aw, come on, I need some more comments. XD

NO WAY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! :D THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I was wondring how long it would take for Kadokawa to jump back on the Gamera bandwagon!  A 13th film would be a welcome addition to an ever growing series of updated, rebooted, and original kaiju films/series that we are getting now!  Could our favorite genre be heading towards a new Golden Age?!?!?!?!  We can only pray! 

A lot of people you wouldn't expect like Godzilla, he is very relevant in popular culture. Nice video. :D

Wow... well, dare I admit that they are three of my favorite kaiju films of all time? :P Of course, I love Spacegodzilla too, so maybe I'm the one with the problem.  It sucks being an outsider in a fandom comprised almost exclusively of outsiders.

also amazon prime is now charging $20 more monthly then before, so yeah there you go guys.

Glad I didnt had the money to Pre-order mine < )

I feel blessed.

Although I've got no problem with the Mutos themselves, I have to say I will be seriously dissapointed if they are the only opponents of Godzilla in the film. I just can't buy those little things being the ancient enemy that threatens Godzilla's life, unless there are a whole frickin' lot of them, which would still be pretty weak.

Well, Ghidorah's origins aren't fully explained, so it's possible in the Godzilla universe that there is a planet Ghidorah's are a naturally occurring lifeform. 

But then, if there are more than one, why don't the aliens ever harness/control multiple specimens? Surely it would be more efficient than summoning one at a time. 

That, and I prefer to think of Ghidorah as an extremely unique and rare entity, just like Godzilla. Being one of the only/last of their kind kinda gives their rivalry more punch imo. 

As far as all three attacking at the same time, each of those films kinda exists in their own continuity. They aren't 'cousins' or anything like that in the films. I feel like each of these are the same monster. Just different interpretations for each cinematic universe. Just like Godzilla 1954, Godzilla 1998, and Godzilla 2014 are not all different individual Godzilla's, but rather reinterpretations of the same character.

HOW  ABOUT A FAN ARTBOOK??

That article is not supposed to be a serious argument about whether or not a kaiju could really exist, it was just made to provide a pseudo-scientific explanation for specifically the kaiju of the Godzilla series, basically just for fun. It's not actually trying to make any point.

While on the whole, the movie is inferior to it's 1974 predecessor; that entrance at least was AWESOME. It was probably the best Godzilla entrance in the whole series :-)

1. I think it's really in the cave system where the Mutos live.

2. Someone else already adressed this.

3. Definitely true.

4. Based on the description of the SXSW footage, the goo-covered object is probably part of a nuclear sub which the Hokmuto dragged onto land for some reason.

5. Probably true.

6. Since Godzilla and the Mutos are both naturally evolved creatures from a time when there was a lot of radiation on Earth, and there were presumably a lot of other radiation-eating creatures, it wouldn't make much sense for his main weapon to only make his opponents stronger. Although the atomic breath has always been said to be a beam of concentrated radiation, it's obvious that it also produces intense heat, which is what really causes damage.

7. I don't understand what you're saying here.

Yeah this was bull****!  I had mine ordered since it was up for preorder back around Christmas and I just got that email today...so mad.

Yeah, I'm not going to try and defend the 280 ton number. I'm not throwing it out there to say that it's actually a Godzilla sized creature's weight. In fact, just between this post and the last, I started to look up estimated weights of animals at various heights, and 400 tons seems like a commonly used number for a 100 foot creature, though I imagine the 'margin of error' on such estimates is pretty large.

The actual weight is less important than the fact that the article was using easy to criticize comic book stats to make points, rather than being fair minded about it's argument. That's more what bothered me about it than anything else. 

As far as the 'Square/Cube' law is concerned, I understand the general principle, that volume grows faster than area as an object gets bigger.......but it only works in predictable ratios if you know the density of the material you are working with. So it would only give you an exact estimated weight if you knew the density of the animal which was getting bigger. Which, the main part of my first post in the thread was the density is incredibly variable based on what type of animal, with a very wide possiblity of functional ranges.

That, and while I don't actually know the FORMULA itself, I am heavily skeptical that it would spit out a number of 20,000 tons, even if you did use the density of an animal like a crocodile or a person, sprouted up to 350 feet. Maybe it would....but I doubt it. 

you know thay made the pack of destruction for GMK and they made toys 6.5 inch toys i think it going to be the same

what about the labratory ? 

@MADISON From reading what you said about Godzilla's height, it seems that you have not heard of the square/cube law. I'm not going to bother with going into detail about exactly what it is, but it basically means that 20,000 tons is probably closer to a realistic weight for a creature of Godzilla's size than 280 tons.

@ DannyBlazor, I thought Gigan was a decent movie. I mean it's watch-able. At least agree that Gigan's design, although weird, is pretty cool. Right?

I never really cared for Gamera, but that is very cool.

I thought that Rodan delivered baby kaiju since the stork is too small.

two halfs? O.o

Sleeping godzilla is too cute!

@ TW_G-FAN2014

Before I begin, I would like to reiterate that I do not believe Kaiju are real. I don't think they ever existed in the past. And I don't they will come into being in the future. 

But that article makes same kind of faulty analysis about size that many of the posters here do. 

That article talks about the weight regular animal bone can support

It talks about 'x' rate metabolism in terms of required energy and feeding

It talks about the body density of a human as it relates to swimming.

It talks about the ability to survive in a vacuum

etc., so on and so forth. 

NONE of those things are REQUIREMENTS for creatures in nature. It doesn't have to be animal bone, there are several other internal structures in the natural world which can support more weight. Metabolism rates even in warm blooded mammals is EXTREMELY variable, even before you get into things like reptiles, and other more exotic creatures. Body density of a human? Do I even need to explain how that's an overlimiting parameter when trying to describe the possiblity for exotic life? THERE ARE animals on earth which can survive in a vacuum. They discovered a new one just last year in fact.

A creature, in nature, using traits from animals that already exist, CAN physically be as big as a Kaiju, and not suffer any major biological complications due to the laws of physics or biology. 

I mean, one doesn't exist. But one physically CAN. It's not ruled out by Newton or anything like that. 

I take further objection with that article for it's straw man arguments. It takes extreme points that would never be true in the first place, and then refutes them as if it was a genuine limit if it occurred nature. 

Like it takes comic book stats, presents those comic book facts as 'nature facts', and then explains why those 'nature facts' aren't possible. 

If we are going to have a serious discussion about the potential physiology of a REAL animal, we shouldn't be tied to comic book stipulations, which that article attempts to do on several occassions. 

For example, it says the Godzilla wiki states that Godzilla is 20,000 tons. Then it goes on to explain how difficult it would be for regular bone to sustain 20,000 tons. 

Except, no Kaiju would ever actually be 20,000 tons, even it was real. That's a comic book fact, not a nature one. 

Even the largest sauropods, standing over 50 feet tall, and 100 feet long, were only 20-40 tons. Godzilla is 100-350 feet tall depending on the film. That's only 2x-7x taller. So it's weight then (assuming Sauropodesque physiology....which is a fallible assumption to make) would only be 40-280 tons. I understand I'm doing rough, imprecise guessing here, but the point remains, 40-280 is nowhere 20,000. 40-280 is a MUCH more reasonable weight to sustain, even if constricting yourself to animal bone. But the article doesn't talk about that, because it prefers to assume the 20,000 number, since the 20,000 number is easier to argue against. It's hella cherry picking basically. 

Basically it sacrifices legitimacy by attempting to use rhetoric to score argumentative points, rather than instead of having an objective conversation. 

Again, Kaiju aren't real. But this whole "they're too big to be real" argument is misguided.

TW_G-FAN2014

Dude, I'm sorry, I think I overreacted a bit. :L I'm just not really having a good day today and the last thing I wanted was a disappointment from a movie I'm so excited for. Pretty sure other people can relate to that at least.

I will say, I don't remember telling anyone what was right and wrong with a Godzilla movie. I remember saying that I can't believe fans of Godzilla would want things in there that have never been in a Godzilla film and wouldn't have a positive impact on the movie.

And surely you can't tell me you want a ton of ADULT CONTENT such as really bad language and other things (you know what I'm talking about) in a Godzilla movie. How many people can say that? I was pretty sure I wasn't the only one. But if that's what people want, I'm not sure if I want to be a part of this fanbase anymore, if everyone enjoys watching bloody violence and gore. I love Godzilla, I love his movies, and the dark tone of this new one. I thought everyone did. I DON'T love bad language or other nonsense like that. Don't you agree?

Maybe I made an assumption with the violence and gore part. Maybe some people want that. I guess that's up to everyone. I can't deny that it surprises me.

You're right, though, I shouldn't get mad if there is a Director's Cut, and I won't. It very well could be great. I'll give it a chance. As you're saying, previously edited violence and language doesn't necessarily mean anything.

However, other than the fact that I think you misunderstood my intentions or took them wrong, I agree with your point. Like I said, maybe I did overreact a bit. I just want this movie to be good. Sorry if I came off as making judgements of anyone.

American production company? No way.

LOL^ YESS

Wow, that's really awesome. Hopefully it will be even better than the Heisei trilogy.