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Neill Blomkamp.

He blew me away with both DISTRICT 9 and ELYSIUM.

Too bad it will never happen. But he'd be perfect.

...how on Earth is he qualified?

He is willing to take on original, high concept SciFi with a mature eye. I'd put him in a similar boat with Joe Cornish, Matt Reeves, Duncan Jones and Rupert Wyatt as fresh directors that are worth keeping an eye on. I would much rather see any of those 5 directors than someone like JJ Abrams, Brian Singer, Stephen Sommers or John Chu.

He just seems to have a thing for fairly grueling science fiction. I'm all for directors branching out, I just don't see how he's a magical perfect shoe-in for a series as fantastical as Gamera.

Joe Cornish, though, sure. I'd be down for that.

True, so far Blomkamp has had a more gritty leaning than we'd ideally see in a Gamera flick, but despite that leaning, he still manages an action packed and overall positive movie experience (which would keep me from throwing a great director like Alfanso Cuaron on the list). I would probably have thrown Edwards name in the mix if he weren't already on board with Godzilla. Another director i could get excited to see take on the big turtle would be Matthew Vaughn... although if i had to put money on it... an American Gamera movie would be directed by Tim Burton ::shudder::

Hmmm in hind sight most of my American directors are not American... Oops.

Brad Bird.

Iron Giant, Incredibles, he's proven himself in live-action filmmaking... He could bring back the 'friend of children' and sell it to even the most jaded.

I love me some Neil Blomkamp...but I haven't seen anything from him yet that seems well suited to Gamera in particular, or kaiju in general.

I just hope we get a new Gamera film at some point in general. :/

I feel like the only way to make Gamera digestible for an American audience would be to do an animated film and something in the vein of Gamera the Brave or yeah, the Iron Giant.

As for directors... some good ones have been named... Brad Bird, Alfonso Couron, and Joe Cornish would all be good picks. I can't really think of anybody else at the moment.

Blomkamp would be an inspired choice, and yeah, he's good, but I'm unsure if he'd really be the proper fit for Gamera. I think his allegory-based sci fi trademarks would be more at home in a Godzilla movie to be honest.

The only way to make Gamera more serious would be to remove the mystical stuff, which IMO, would be making him TOO serious.

Leave that for Godzilla, br0s.

I think a mystical gamera could be done. Maybe as a shinto deity? Or Hell, maybe even as a period piece similar to Daimajin?

Ryan Renolds?

I like the Brad Bird idea for a more intimate, character-driven plot. But for huge scale action I like Blomkamp.

This of course is without the overwrought mysticism from the Heisei series.

If I was to pick a director for American camera moving it would probably be someone new and fresh.

i enjoy animated films and thought Iron Giant was pretty great, but i really have very little desire to see an animated Gamera flick. In fact i almost responded to the first Pixar comment with an eye-roll emoticon, but it appears I am in the minority on this one. I'm sure it would be fine, but its just not a concept that gets me excited