The 1998 Sequel

Yeah...For me this script feels off. I dont think i would have been interested in 98 sequel, because Zilla`s design wouldnt have changed, and the same with the way he acts and moves.

And the monsters fights would be awkward, because of the way he is hunched down. To fight he would be able bite, and run. And i guess a "fire breath". Look at the GINO cartoon. Everytime he fights he goes into a more upright posture.

And no, this isnt stuff i say just because i dislike Zilla, both his movie and as a monster in general. Im just stating my opinions.

Surprisingly, reading through the whole thing from beginning to end, I must say that as a stand alone movie I think it would have been quite a good one. I wouldn't call it "Godzilla," just as I woudln't call the 1998 film "Godzilla," but as a movie it sounds alright. The monster action sounded cool, the plot wasn't half bad including the fact that we get rid of that annoying bitch Audrey in the first major sequence (HOORAH!!), Zilla lives with the Runt in the end (awesome!), and overall the idea was rather sound.

I enjoyed the 1998 Godzilla series. In fact, I watch it rather regularly on Netflx just because I can and because it's entertaining.

I believe this would have made a good movie, even though "Godzilla" or "Godzilla 2" aren't titels that should accompany it.

Why are you using TurokSwe's The American Godzilla Wiki? It's not reliable at all and it's stupid.

I wrote a huge thing here, but I was redirected to some "become a fan!" thing and I lost all that I wrote. Just know that TurokSwe is not to be trusted, he plagiarizes from all sites imaginable, he rejects the Zilla Name Change, he vandalized Wikipedia with his biased opinions, and he uses fan sites and blog posts as reliable sources of info. Doesn't sound to good, eh? Do not trust Swe. Oh and, the Wikizilla article was created before TurokSwe's.

http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzilla_2_(Unnamed_1998_film_sequel)

http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/The_Zilla_Name_Change

DARKRAI TITANOLLANTE@

The name that should never be mentioned...UHHHHH Spoooooky. No, sorry. But i defintly remember that guy. I can live with the guy liking Zilla, but my god...The stuff that guy did actually managed to damage Zilla more in the Kaiju society.

Also, good catch, i didnt even notice what wiki he was linking.

Zillahater,

Thanks for your opinion. Whether you like Zilla or not is up to you. :) And I believe you if you simply just wouldn't have been interested in a sequel. I just posted this because I wanted to know how people would react if the second Zilla movie was more 'improved'. I Also want to thank you for just stating your opinion, and not attempting to strongly criticize Zilla like I've seen a lot of people do, even though you don't like him. So thanks!

TW_G-fan2014,

I agree with you about calling him 'Godzilla'. While I have no issue with Zilla, he is completely different from the actual one and I think maybe it is a good idea to change his name since they're both very different from each other. Also, I thought Zilla being with the runt at the end was pretty awesome as well. XD I also agree that the movie might have done better had it not been called 'Godzilla'. Zilla would have been his own monster, and therefore the atomic breath thing wouldn't have really mattered, along with all the other things that make Zilla different from the real Godzilla. I've seen a few episodes of the Zilla series, and I actually think they're pretty good as well.

Darkrai titanollante,

I'm sorry, I had no idea who that guy was when I posted this. Like I said, I was just writing about what I had read, and just as you said about it being on another website, I had heard about the script before and therefore didn't think it mattered which website I used as a link. Sorry, I suppose I should have known better. I'll change the link if I can find another website with the script on it.

I've remember reading the script treatment for the sequel in 1999. It seems to me it had some great intentions that wanted to correct mistakes of the first movie. Kind of like the crew of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem tried to fix the issues in Alien vs. Predator.

The problem is, the directors and crew of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem were so intent on fixing fan outcry that they forgot to put depth and originality in their own story. It ended up being worse than the first Alien vs. Predator.

I think the same would have happened here. It's hard to believe that the sequel would've been any more shallow than the 1998 movie, but I think it would have. It would've been too concerned with adjusting criticized attributes and become a cliche of better movies. It's best that everything GINO was put to rest.

Gman,

Thanks for you opinion as well.

However, while I agree that it may have been best to put the whole Zilla thing to rest since it didn't do well, I wonder about if it actually would have been 'worse than the first' (again, I personally liked the movie). The reason is that I think the plot was pretty good for the sequel. I've also seen various people who say that if you don't try to call it Godzilla, it wouldn't have been so bad. When the next movie came out, people who watched it would have been people who actually liked Zilla or were interested in seeing the new movie. One reason people didn't like it was because the main plot of the movie was where this  Godzilla came from and everything, and since people didn't like the new Godzilla, they didn't like the plot, either. If people expected the sequel to be Zilla, and with the new monsters, battle scenes, and interesting new plot along with the added fire breath, I think this movie would have actually not done as bad as the first one.

Plus, just a note, but Roland Emmerich said they intended to make a completely different version of Godzilla- that tells me that while they may have tried to correct a few mistakes like the atomic breath, they would still want their Godzilla to be different and not put as much effort into trying to make Zilla into the original Godzilla and instead focused more on the story, characters, and new monsters. Just my opinion.

It's impossible to say without, at the very least, a script to read, but I find it unlikely it would've done better. Immediately, there's the issue of budget. Sony had announced that if the movie were to be produced the budget would be cut.

This isn't always an achilles heel, but considering the crew behind the first movie, it sounds like a shoestring budget mixed with Emmerich's lack of depth with storytelling would've made for an even less interesting movie.

The plot sounded interesting, I agree, but it's easy to have an interesting plot with a poor screenplay. The first movie already had a weak screenplay so I highly doubt Sony would've footed the bill to get someone more expensive and reknown for the second movie.

The sequel was going to be nothing more than a cash-in follow up. The story treatment reads like fan fiction. I don't see there being a lot of depth or character-driven story telling involved with something like that. I see an attempt to rectify mistakes and potentially create new ones.

As for Emmerich's "new Godzilla," I don't think he set out to create anything unique. But I've detailed my issues with that in This Thread.

Honestly, I love Zilla design, but I hate that they called her "Godzilla". SHE IS NOT GODZILLA !!!! It would be good if they introduced her in other name.

Zilla 2 please no.

Honestly if they had come out with a sequel, I would have watched it. I have a feeling there would have been a lot of aesthetic changes to make Zilla more appealing.

I would have preferred this story over the first film's flimsy writing. 

@Akagi

The Godzilla animated series used the sequel script as a basis. :)

@Danielle

Don't forget how different Zilla looks in the cartoon vs how he looks in the movie.