GODZILLA: King of the Monsters (5-31-19 -NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

[lhb412]

[jellydonut25]

[klen7]

It's like Smowwwwgahhh (Smaug)

[lhb412]

Smowg?

[klen7]

^Apparently it needs more syllables

[Benjamin Haines]

[lhb412]

^... you know, the more I see it the more I don't mind the long, thin hind legs.

..... but I think you're right on the money: concept art, not final design.

[Ultra T-Rex]

I think that's very likely to be the case, yes. One of several designs floated/considered, but not the one that ended up being used in the end.

They came up with all kinds of outlandish concept designs for Godzilla himself for G14, so it is indeed possible history has repeated itself and we get a much more traditional King Ghidorah in the final film. I'm looking forward to seeing what designs they settled for, not just for Ghidorah but also Mothra and Rodan. Shouldn't be too long now, SDCC perhaps? It would make sense to release the first trailer somewhere around then.

[tbeasley]

Do we know for sure how much ADI's involved in this? Like are they the sole creature designers? They worked on the first film but I believe they only did the cave fossils right?

[lhb412]

^ I don't know anything about the breakdown of labor between effects houses. Did Dougherty mention the main creature designers by name on the Mick Garris podcast?

[Benjamin Haines]

[lhb412]

Another weird and cute but vague update from Dougherty:

https://twitter.com/Mike_Dougherty/stat ... 5122397184

Hmmm...

[lhb412]

HOLY MACKEREL!


https://twitter.com/Mike_Dougherty/stat ... 9049463810

Is this something Dougherty added the 'Monster Zero' label to, or could be something actually from the film?

Come to think of it; this isn't the first time the phrase 'Monster Zero' has been used, right?

[Benjamin Haines]

[lhb412]

King of the Monsters just got bumped back two months to May 31.

http://deadline.com/2018/05/six-billion ... 202396965/

The culprit: filling the hole created by the Mark Wahlberg's Six Billion Dollar Man movie, which is scrambling to find a new director and will not be ready in time so WB is giving Godzilla its big, summer release date and bumping the Bionic Man back to 2020.

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

Fine with me. Gives them more time to polish. Wasn't it originally slated for June anyways?

[Benjamin Haines]

^ It was originally slated for June 8 of this year. If they had stuck to that date it would be opening two weeks from now. Paramount muscled in on that date with "Transformers 6" (now Bumblebee) back in 2016 and WB eventually moved Godzilla 2 to March 2019, and then Paramount ended up moving Bumblebee to December anyway. Now the early June date will belong to Ocean's 8, Hotel Artemis, and Hereditary without any CGI giants in sight.

The weekend after Memorial Day is a prime Summer slot. WB has hit paydirt there with Wonder Woman in 2017 and San Andreas in 2015.

Godzilla opened on the weekend before Memorial Day, now Godzilla: King of the Monsters will open the weekend after, and finally Godzilla vs. Kong will open on Memorial Day weekend!

[lhb412]

Feeling pretty good about this release date, but I thought the other one was fine, too.

I don't think anyone mentioned that in the original March release date it would be a week after Jordan Peele's new horror movie. It's not a special effects tentpole, but considering he made what was pretty much the movie of the year in 2017 I wouldn't count out it being another surprise blockbuster.

[Benjamin Haines]

^ Jordan Peele's Us will definitely be one to watch in 2019. I think Godzilla 2 would have been fine opening in its wake. Kong: Skull Island opened just two weeks after Get Out and both movies performed at their own best-case scenario levels.

I was starting to really like the notion of March being a kaiju month three years in a row. After Power Rangers and Pacific Rim: Uprising both opened on the second-to-last weekend of March and failed to catch on with general audiences, maybe this move is also WB's way of trying to keep Godzilla 2 from following suit.

[Gwangi]

Of course, it is not going to be without its stiff competition. As I understand it, the live-action feature of "Aladdin" will be released the weekend prior, and as we all know, Disney movies can be a magnet with audiences.



We shall see how this will play out. And I am glad that it is now officially called "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" (colon, instead of a coma as titled in the 1956 version). Leaving out the "the" was driving me crazy!

[Henry88]

the question i ask is godzilla 2 in a better place than before?

[Benjamin Haines]

[jellydonut25]

I'm sad. Sad, I say.


That's personally. I'm excited for this movie...the further it moves back, the sadder I get...I don't like distance between me and things I like.


Objectively: I dunno, man...'summer' blockbuster season seems to start in FEBRUARY these days, and I feel like by the time the end of May rolls around, people are burned out already. Could be worse, could be July, which has somehow become essentially a dumping ground these days.

[DannyBeane]

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