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Either Godzilla 2000, or The 1 from Final Wars
hey if u look at the body of godzilla than u see a part at the top where you come in
@ Mikezilla15, it's good to see younger fans of Godzilla. Don't worry about what other people say, if you have an opinion on something, feel free to post it. It's OK to debate and people will learn to respect your opinion whether it makes sense to them or not. Regardless, seeing younger fans brings a smile to my face.
I couldn't agree more. :) Godzilla 2000 is one of the best Godzillas out there!
HE IS NOT IN THE FILM
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10 Questions with Mike Schlesinger
Q2. You’re a long-time Godzilla fan. Tell us about your involvement in Godzilla 2000.
Well, that’s not a short story, but I’ll try to make it so. Sony’s distribution chief Jeff Blake (whom I largely owe my career to) happened to be in Japan when G2K opened and was breaking records. Since the Emmerich version didn’t turn out to be the most-beloved film of its generation, the studio was unsure of how to proceed. Jeff felt that releasing G2K here would be at least a place-keeper and at best a make-good to the fans who felt let down by the Emmerich.
We had a screening, and there was considerable concern: the pace was slack and the dubbing was pretty dire. Jeff was having second thoughts. I assured him that with some judicious editing and a new dub it’d be right as rain. He said, “Okay, then you do it.” And just like that it was in my lap. He figured, I hope correctly, that I was the only one there who’d actually seen some Godzilla movies and would have the right handle on it. So with a release date breathing down our necks, I dove right in.
Jimmy Honore, then Sony’s post-production czar, provided me with an editor and a sound man. Toho’s local guy, Masaharu Ina, was also involved, as every single change had to be approved by Tokyo. I wrote a new script, hired a swell bunch of Asian-American actors to reloop, and worked with the editor to sweat nine minutes of fat out of the film (over 130 individual cuts) and restructuring scenes to increase the tension. We rebuilt the soundtrack from scratch, adding some new music cues (including a couple of classic Ifukube themes) and creating foley for scenes that had been played in total background silence. I even did directional dialogue in some scenes. The sound guys were brilliant and completely supportive, and very complimentary whenever I came up with a suggestion that worked. Happily, Toho (albeit a bit grudgingly at first) admitted that our version was a big improvement; so much so that they even re-released it subtitled in Tokyo, as well as a few other countries, like India. The reviews here were mostly positive (if sometimes patronizing). It made money. And best of all, I got a six-week crash course in post-production that has served me very well. Even I was surprised at how quickly I picked it up. And I have the unique honor of being the first person to put a line of Yiddish in a Godzilla movie.
Q5. There’s a legend in the film world about your long-lost Godzilla script, which was almost shot by Joe Dante. Please, relate the whole story, down to why it didn’t get made. Is there any hope for it now?
Legend? Seriously? Wow. Anyway, it’s doubtful it’ll ever get made, what with the new Warners version coming out next year. It started, as so much of my life does, with a joke. I ran into my friend Jon Davison one day; he was at Sony producing The Sixth Day. I told him about what Toho was doing with my version of G2K (as related above), and he said, “Yeah, you’re really Mr. Godzilla now.” I laughed, “Yeah, and if these guys were smart, they’d get you, me and Joe to do the next American one.” He said, “Hey, we’re there.” Later in the day, I was pondering this and thought, “Well, why not? Who better to save the franchise?” So I called them both and asked if they were interested. They were, so I went in to the Columbia production head and pitched the idea of a “Wrath of Khan”-like sequel: a modestly-budgeted, man-in-suit picture, using Toho’s effects people, but set in America with English-speaking actors. I said we could do it for $20 million. He was intrigued, but said he really couldn’t authorize it. However, if I wanted to write it on spec, they would certainly consider it if it came out as good as I said it would. That was fine by me.
So I went home and got to work. I set it in Hawaii for various reasons, among them that I’d need no tortured explanation of how Godzilla got there, not to mention the unlikelihood of any actor turning down a feature being shot in Hawaii. (My suggested tagline: “Say aloha to your vacation plans.”) I decided to follow the Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein Rule–make the human scenes funny and play the monster stuff straight. I wrote it with genre favorites in mind for the cast: Bruce Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Scott Bakula, Christopher Lee, Leonard Nimoy and of course Joe’s stock company. After jokingly giving it the temporary title of Godzilla—East of Java, I settled on Godzilla Reborn, which referred to not only the franchise but also the storyline, in which he’s killed and eventually resuscitated. Sid Ganis eventually came on board as a producer as well. Everybody adored the script. It shoulda been a no-brainer.
Unfortunately, by the time I finished it, Columbia had a new production head, and he wanted no part of it. Wouldn’t even read it. It takes balls to say that to Sid Ganis, who’s a former Academy president, but he did. And there ya go. Now everyone’s too old for their parts and Warners has the franchise. A damn shame; it would’ve been a monster hit. Pun intended.
i hope not, if its like cloverfield when you see him hear and there, then this movie will not be up to the standards. i hope we will see godzilla at least 50 minutes in the movie or is it to much. godzilla will get his fights against muto, witch might be 3 minutes per battle.
i actually think kyero was being very respectful, and everything he said was true. sorry
the first time i heard about this movie, that was the theory i had. i thoght the cloverfield monster was going to fight godzilla in the movie and also thought the muto were the cloverfield monster.
to me x-plus is the shit. i was going to get godzilla 1954, but i had no where to put him, so i didnt get him :( and i think godzilla will win. i was going to start my godzilla collection but at this time i cant.
you might be right dragonlord tevin and yes kaijudino this a good theory, that might be the plot of the movie
this is a badass song. are you going to make a 60 years tribute to godzilla with this song?
Something im scared of is the mutos. I dont want them to feel forced in the movi just for the sake ofhaving another enemy. They must have really good origins that are new and original. Simply put,i dont them feeling forced inside the movie
You know, the plot of this movie does say something about human's arrogance of creating creatures so you might have somethin correct right there
kyero@ maybe iv gone a little to far of what i said i just didnt like what u said by insulting me im just a kid i dont know a lot of stuff.
of course i must say it would be enjoyable to watch godzilla tear cloverfield in half or vaporize him, or, well you get the idea
GODZILLA HIMSELF is right. There wasn't even any film yet. Hell, there wasn't even any actors chosen yet. They were still creating the script.
Put in ever monstar ever, naturally, and put in Godzilla Dreamcast Generations style destruction, with Next Gen graphics and next gen gameplay.
I would have a Turbo-Super-Mecha-King-Sex-Edition 'gasm if that were to befall unto the video industry.
dude, calm down, that trailer was from 2012 comic con, the movie is obviously in post production now but it sure as heck wasn't back then. when that trailer came out the movie had not filmed anything at all yet. and sure is wasn't cheap, but they do have a lot of moeny to work with and sometimes little mood pieces like that get created.
Titanosaurus, MechaGodzilla 1, and that tank Biollante.
And not to mention what you just said made no sense at all. Why would they spend so much money creating something to not even put it in the film. The trailer was well produced. That shit isn't cheap and production companies don't throw around money like that.
kyero@ hav u got anything else to say to me to make me pissed?!
@Godzilla Himself
The movie is in post-production. They already finished filming. They even said it in a interview I'm pretty sure
It is a fun theory :) Id be lying if I told you I didnt want to see Godzilla fight Clover(Even though it is clear who would win)
@MIKEZILLA15, because it was just a pre production teaser, a mood piece, the film hadn,t even begun production yet. therefore nothing in it was official, including that monster design, even the design of godzilla has differences from the mood piece, to the actual trailer that contains actual movie footage.
J.J. Abrams himself confirm in an interview that the bomb at the end of Cloverfield kill the monster long ago.
IDK if you can find a normal priced DVD but if you just want to see a full movie just to google and just type in (Destroy All Monsters Viooz) and it will bring up the full movie length link. BUT do not click on the download button, just go to the link and on the next page press play.
Godzillahimself@ how do u know that monster won't be in the movie.
the monster from the pre production teaser will not even be in the movie and so any similarities(which i don't see btw) to cloverfield are completely meaningless and irrelivent.
kyero@ now I see your point clover field and that monster are never the same and they r both from 2 different company's and can't mix them into other ones.by the way I'm only new To this site and u don't have to go off yelling at me plus I'm 12 years old. It's not like I know everything.
My favorite thing about the new back plates on G-2014 is the fact that they look VERY mangled and imperfect. The symmetry of the 80's-90's Godzilla looked cool, but it lacked that original "warped" and "natural" feel that the '54 Godzilla's did.
I personally think they look great, and I'm VERY hard to please as a hardcore G-fan.
It's all good! I haven't seen the trailer with the clear image of the monster sadly :/ So I did not know this, do you have a link to it by any chance? The trailer I seen was an extended one with literally just a 7 second viewing of what I posted above
A fun fan theory, but it will never happen.
Before I get into why, I'd like to say something else about the two creatures shown above.
I'm seeing absolutely zero resemblance between the Cloverfield monster and the monster from the teaser. How you can say that with any seriousness, MIKEZILLA15, is beyond me if I'm being brutally honest here.
For one, the monster in the teaser is a thick, insectiod creature with approximately 6-8 limbs that are short, stubby, and end in very clear claws with about five fingers each. It's has a single, carapace like body without any clear divisions between what would be its head, thorax, and abdomen. It's almost like a giant worm or beetle larvae.
Cloverfield is long, thin, gangly, and has about three fingers on each hand which are quite large compared to the hand itself. Not only that, but they bend in very obvious ways that the teaser monster does not. Cloverfield also has clear sections to its body. head, torso, arms, abdomen, legs and tail. It's very easily identified and differentiated form the teaser monster.
Again, I'm being a bit harsh, but "almost looks exactly like the cloverfield monster?" Really MIKEZILLA15? I don't know how you could possibly see that.
And I'm sorry, but I must now confirm for you why this theory will never happen for the 2014 movie.
Cloverfield was developed by Bad Robot Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Legendary had no part in the film, and as such they have absolutely zero rights to the creature. At this stage in the game, this late in post production, it's too late for them to try and get their hands on Cloverfield. They didn't get the rights to it, they haven't tried, and they won't try.
Again, it's a fun fan theory which might make an interesting fanfic if some fan were to write a story about it on a public online writing website, but outside of that it will never take place.
I'm sorry.
Either way I can't wait for the film! Like it said it was a little theory that popped in my head and I felt the urge to post it! So I did :)
