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"Hopefully his flying ability is taken away IMO."

Well that sounds like a terrible idea... While we're at it lets reboot Superman again and make sure he can't fly.

"BTW, mostly all the Gamera movies have very bad or if not no plot at all."

The Gamera films had just as much "plot" as the Godzilla movies, including the ones from the 1960s. In fact a few of them dragged on with more human exposition than monster battles, so they have plenty in common with the new Godzilla. Gamera vs. Barugon and vs. Gyaos weren't up to the calibar of Toho's best from the 1960s, but they were Daei's best of the series at the time by far. Meanwhile, the Gamera trilogy of the 1990s put everything that the Godzilla series had from 1984-present to shame. Gamera 3 still stands as the finest modern day example of daikaiju filmmaking and Toho's been trying to hit that bar since 1999. I do wonder which films you've seen.

We've already recieved an extremely dark, gritty Gamera movie with Gamera 3. I'd rather see a different approach, but nothing that impedes on what Gamera is. (Like taking away his trademark abilities.) I think it's exciting that a new Gamera film is on the horizon, but like the hype for Legendary's Godzilla, we can be excited about it without pretending everything that came before was a travesty.

hopefully , we get a crossover with godzilla

The day we get a Godzilla vs Gamera movie is something that will even overshadow any US version of Godzilla IMHO..

That is as big of a match up that can ever be and I hope we see it in our lifetime.

And I agree with GMAN regarding the Gamera trilogy of the 90's especially Gamera 3. It was the apex of visuals for a Gamera/kaiju films and a very good and emotional story.

I also agree that taking away one of his main characterstics is risky BUT if they wish to create a more "real" version of Gamera, they might do it. As cool as it is to watch Gamera soar around in the air, you really need to keep a suspension of disbelif.

Either way, it will be great to see a new kaiju film from the birth place kaiju cinema.

@gman2887,

If i recall correctly ishoro honda and tomoyuki tanaka both made godzilla show his softer side long before gamera ever came into play. In ghidorah the three headed monster 1964 godzilla was made to show his softer side by teaming up with mothra and rodan to take on ghidorah. Gamera was born in 1965, plus invasion of astro monster shows godzilla being more of a gentle giant before gamera ever influenced toho to make godzilla acceptable to children. Also the heisei series of gamera drew heavily off of the influence of toho's monster monarch. Toho decided to put godzilla back to his original roots in the return of godzilla 1984 and kept him there through the rest of the heisie series. If anything gamera has had to draw off of godzilla's influence as well to make him the next big thing to the king. :)

Gamera came after Godzilla's supposed "turn" yes, but Godzilla had yet to make his full transition to hero in the 60s. Although Godzilla was formed into an anti-hero, with the audience largely rooting for him, he still posed a potential threat up to 1972.

Godzilla is under control for much of Monster Zero, allowing the audience to go back and see Godzilla trash cities again. His battle with King Ghidorah wasn't particularly out of any concern for mankind, (all the characters don't exactly cheer when he wakes up from the Xians' control) but more out of the established rivalry from the prior film. And in the next two films, Fukuda positioned Godzilla as a major threat where humans fear him and he ultimately ends up trampling their structures.

It wasn't until Gamera's popularity as the "friend of children" was truly embraced where Toho made Godzilla more relatable to child protagonists and wrote main characters to root for him. There's glimmers of this in late 60s films, but it's not in full swing until the 1970s. Effectively, I'd call the Godzilla of the 60s a straight up anti-hero growing into a full fledged superhero. Meanwhile, Gamera was a "friend of children" from the beginning and an effective ally to Earth by his second movie.

And although Daiei may have been inspired loosely by Toho to reboot Gamera, Toho didn't invent the reboot or alternate universes. That was already very well established in anime, Ultraman and Super Sentai alike. If anything both Godzilla and Gamera were drawing off the influences of television series like those.