Godzilla storylines..

[CousinOfGodzilla]

[mrbluehair]

What I would like, and some here may hate this idea and some may like it, is a way to tie several areas together. This is a remake of sorts, but in the best possible way culminating to events that happen in modern times.

It would be a 4 act feature, starting with Godzilla vs. The Thing or Mothra or however you want to call it. A boy visits Japan with his parents, who's father happens to be involved in the development of the area where G rises from the ground. During the mayhem he is seperated from his parents, and they are killed in the process. He ends up in an orphanage where he grows up in Japan. No one understands him, and he feels alone and isolated in an alien world. (Re-shoot all scenes to re-create that movie using more modern combination of suitmation, CGI and motion capture. Also film with filters that mimic that era)

Act 2 takes place in 1984 The boy is now a man, a military scientist who had been adopted by a kind Japaneese family and has dedicated his life to the study and possible containment of Godzilla and other monsters. It's attack is again re-created and he is in the middle of battle and study to figure out how to defeat the one that took his biological family from him.

Act 3 revolves around Godzilla vs. MG2 where he has become instrumental in developing Mechagodzilla and witnesses the temporary death of Godzilla till it is able to regenerate it's secondary brain. His focuse has begun to turn him mad and his failure leads him to leave Japan and return to the states, possibly to abandon his goal. He now has a family of his own that has taken a back seat to the quest, and he realizes that he's losing the very thing that was taken from him years ago.

Act 4 is in present time, a much older man, now a grandfather still tinkers in his basement lab to unlock the mystery of Godzilla's regenerative powers. Several attacks have occured since leaving Japan, and his hope is lost till one day he stumbles on the process for breaking down the regenerator DNA strand, how to take it apart, as well as applying it to other creatures. He has performed experiments where creatures mutated and become more damage resistant as radiation is added to their body. He creates several smaller, horrible creatures he destroys before they get uncontrollable. About the same time, Godzilla is discovered off the coast of California he senses that this is his last hope to gain vengence an he takes one of his monstrosities and blasts it with radiation causing it to grow gigantic and angry. The two beasts battle, and again, like the first encounter, he loses his family, and is injured in the process (I won't go into the description of the injury, but it is key to the somber ending of the story as well as it ties into the beginning of each chapter)

It is very dark, sad, and ironic. In my mind I want a 6th sense type twist at the end, and want the styles of film making to mimic the styles of the original movies. I do want a heightend sense of reality in the monster scenes so if it can be done with motion capture, cgi or suitmation, so be it but the monsters have to be actually recognizable as Godzilla, with maybe a hybrid of all styles to allow for the continuity. A liitle change over the years to show the continued mutation of Godzilla is acceptable as well.

The kid's facination stems from his knowlege of the original 1954 attack, and his telling line of "Where's Godzilla" when they are in Japan, almost like it's a fictional character comes back to haunt him.

[jrichreturns]

Hmm now that really is creative.

[mrbluehair]

[Temjin]

Nice storyline - very detailed and organized....

I've got three ideas, each different in scope and feel:

1 - Fantasy/Thriller

The legend of the king of the sea is told to children from birth, as a way to keep them away from shallow waters. One child in particular dreams of seeing this creature up close. He's in awe from the stories told to him. One night he decides to stay outside during a freak storm. As he looks into the horizon, during a lightning strike, he sees the silhouette of what looks like Godzilla, rising out of the ocean.

In shock he tells his friends, who also come out to look. They catch a glimpse of it, but not the full image like the boy did. Some believe it and some don't, so those who believe tell their parents and are told to keep it quiet for now. Time passes and the believers decide to go on a boat to see the creature for themselves. They make it out to sea and another freak storm occurs, except this time, there's no wind, just heavy rain. As the waves rock the boat heavily, they hear strange sounds and groans coming from all around them. Shocked, they decide to go back home, but a wave hits them causing the boat to topple over. While they're in the water(they can all swim) they see what looks like something HUGE moving under them. They panic. They make a mad dash/stroke for their boat, just as two huge glowing eyes stare right back at them underwater!! The children make it to the boat and hightail it back to the beach, where their parents await.

They tell them what they saw and the parents reveal to them that the reason why no one sails off this particular beach is because the monster would follow them out to sea and use the weather to sink the ship and eat the passengers, and those who survived would lead the creature back to shore and eventually on to the mainland where it'd cause havoc once again.

The audience eventually gathers that the events on this island happen years after Godzilla's first appearance there(in 1954) and the locals knew of the existance of another creature off the coast of their island, so they told the event as a bedtime story to prepare the children and keep them away from the ocean.

Just like the story told, Godzilla 2 rises out of the ocean depths to walk freely among the island, causing mass mayhem. Unknown to the children, however, the local army was waiting for such an event to happen and deploy the Maser Tanks to drive Godzilla away.

We see the events unfold through the children's eyes as Godzilla battles the army and eventually, a Mothra Larvae, the island's resident legend(surprise appearance). Godzilla retreats to the ocean depths where he came, threatening to return on a moment's notice, while the kids learn a valuable lesson:

- "The price of curiosity is high, when the knowledge gained is invaluable".

[mrbluehair]

[Temjin]

Thanks. I tried to use something to create that myticism that Godzilla movies lacked and also to give a better angle about the entire Godzilla mythos - We're used to seeing him just appear, attack, be attacked, destroy, retreat and repeat - I'm sure it'd be a whole lot better if there was more to him than just "radioactive anomaly".

I have 2 others I'll post later, since I don't have them on-hand...One a contemporary sci-fi story and another a spychological horror story....they might work.....

[jrichreturns]

[jrichreturns]

[Mexigojira]

[jrichreturns]

[Tyler E. Martin]

[jrichreturns]

[mrbluehair]

The key here is not necessarily reinvent the wheel but vary the formula a bit.....Somthing major happens, Godzilla shows up, fights another monster either as a good guy or bad, Godzilla wins or has a draw and wades off into the sunset.

I think that a story about and centered around the effects a giant monster or monsters has on a society is very interesting. What if we are not the top of the food chain, do we pull away from destruction and move towards understanding for self preservation???

What I proposed in my previous post was a way to do a prequel ark movie to bring new audiences up to speed with a plot tying all together. Then in the final 2 parts of the trilogy, make the middle movie a transition piece where HUMANS ACTUALLY TAKE POSITIVE ACTION TO APPEASE GODZILLA and it's rewards show when G transitions from destroyer to savior...maybe the middle we see G get defeated and in #3 we see the humans take steps to save Godzilla as their only hope....

[Andrew Nguyen]

[Andrew Nguyen]

[Andrew Nguyen]

[Irish Gfan]

[Chop Top]

[we77964]

Godzilla 2012.

Raymond Burr (in voice over).
Ed O'Neil as the President
Morgan Freeman Secretary of Defense
Samuel L Jackson, Air Force General




December 21 2012, the world is in a crisis with Iran, North Korea, and Rouge nations starting a second cold war.

The public annoys the Mayan calendar, A nuclear missile blows up an incoming meteor, but another slams in the ocean. Gigan appears and attack the Earth. The underwater kingdoms of Atlantis (in the Atlantic Ocean) and Sepaoita (in the Pacific) reawakens and merges. The two kingdoms sent their champions Titionsaurs and Megalon to battle one another in the United States.

Godzilla wakes up after being washed up on the Japanese Coast and battles Gigan. After defeating the Monster, Gigan destorys a number of airline jets over the Pacific.

The Atlantis sinks Seaptia. A four way battle ends at Atlantis, when Godzilla, Megalon, Gigan, and Titinoscaurs are engulf in a nuclear strike by a NATO bomber.


Egnalogue;
A NASA official calls the President and Defense Sec, and warns something big is coming to the Earth. A Armand of ships surrounds the Earth.




THE END.................. IS NEAR!!!!!!

[kiryugoji04]

[Kaiju Nexus]

[Andrew Nguyen]

[Kaiju Nexus]

[Temjin]

If they do attempt to remake it one day(and they will. BANK ON IT.) I wouldn't be too surprised it if is a retelling of Gojira. I mean, don't you think KONG inspired someone over there?

I'm willing to bet most of us wouldn't even know it was a retelling until we actually saw it - meaning most of the remake haters would probably see it and weep when the truth is revealed.

I don't give a flying F&^% about too many remakes. SOME movies need to be RETOLD and REENVISIONED(I'm following George Lucas's definition of the word) to restore their original glory - Gojira's one of them. I kid you not - If Gojira was reenvisioned with better special effects, like "Sky Captain", given a professional cast, and a story setting it during the war, like the original, I'd care to wager that Godzilla would become popular again, internationally. Just don't make the mistake of downplaying him.