If you were chosen to write and direct the Legendary film...

[jrichreturns]

[TerranigmaFreak]

[jrichreturns]

[jrichreturns]

[ryuuseipro]

Seriously, if I had my way, it'd be called something simple like Godzilla: King of the Monsters. No recent movie used that title (and the title Godzilla was already used by three movies, especially GINO). And besides, it's a very glorious title.

The basic plot would be similar in some ways to Godzilla 2000: Millennium. Godzilla appears as a destroyer until a more ominous monster appears to challenge him. I don't care if it's from the Toho Monster roster, or an original one. (If the latter, make it a really good one! Get someone from Tsuburaya Productions to design it!) Why, there can be two or three monsters for Godzilla to fight!

As for the human characters, Legendary/Warner can work that out. But they have to be characters from all walks of life, like the Showa and Millennium films. None of this 99% military character crap, like in the VS Series. That stuff gets old. Mix it up with other types! Scientists, reporters, kids, working class folk, cartoonists, hippies, etc.

They can at least try to make this film exciting. And most of all, make Godzilla Godzilla.

[Benjamin Haines]

Fade in. All communications to and from the city of Miami have mysteriously ceased. A government investigation finds that the city has been completely obliterated. No building remains standing, no life left anywhere. Total desolation. Amidst all the rubble, a television news van is found remarkably unscathed. Inside it, digital video tapes reveal some startling footage: a giant insectoid monster descending from the sky and laying waste to the city. The news van monitor shows that as the buildings fell and the fires raged, a monster not seen since 1954 - Godzilla - rose from the Atlantic and killed the giant insect in an instant. He then returned to the ocean without making so much as a sound.

A conference is held on the floor of the Senate to decide how this highly-sensitive footage of Godzilla should be revealed to the public. On one side, there are people insisting that Godzilla should be presented as a menacing, terrifying monster determined to slaughter people and rain black fire upon us. These folks argue that contemporary Americans will only accept the notion of Godzilla's existence if he's presented to them as a being of pure evil and darkness. On the other side, there are people insisting that Godzilla should be depicted as a benevolent being, a hero that we can root for as he saves us from the threat of other monsters. They insist that Godzilla should be presented to the public as a creature that is appealing to children, because deep down we all have an inner child who wants to sympathize with monsters like Godzilla, not be afraid of them. There's also the issue of Godzilla not roaring on the footage obtained from the news van. Half of the congressmen insist that the footage should be edited to include a low, ominous sound like a contrabass coming from Godzilla, while the other half say they should give him a light, energetic roar. Futhermore, there's the matter of how the news footage doesn't provide an entirely clear look at Godzilla, but it proves to be just as divisive as half of the senators lobby for producing new footage with state-of-the-art CGI special effects to give the public an idea of what Godzilla can do, while the other half insist that old-fashioned man-in-suit effects would better represent the monster's true nature. The debate escalates into loud arguing and finally culminates in an all-out brawl on the Senate floor, with a small group of scientists and elders quietly observing the debacle from the sidelines.

Amidst all the commotion, Godzilla surprises everybody by stomping the Senate flat with everybody in it. He then proceeds to willingly kill people fleeing in the streets, with close-up shots of his toe claws goring and crushing people to death in slow motion, including small children. Then he does a flying kick into the Washington Monument and rescues Minilla, who it turns out has been trapped inside. With his son in tow, Godzilla winks at the camera and uses his atomic heat ray to fly off into the sunset as the opening theme from the US version of Godzilla's Revenge plays.


The title would be Godzilla: Everybody Loses. Also, the opening weekend box office receipts would accidentally be destroyed in a fire, so we'd never know how many people turned out to see it.

[Legion]

I'd watch and enjoy every second of that, Ben.

[Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!]

[mrbluehair]

Ben....that is complete and utter.....GENIOUS!!!

Great post man!!!

[king_ghidorah]

[Tyler E. Martin]

[Mac]

[Henry88]

i see this thread is dripping with sarcasm.

[Pkmatrix]

I'd like to keep it somewhat simple - a modern day remake of Gojira, but merged with the Godzilla v. Anguirus plot from GRA, set in Hawaii (which, IMO, could work as a decent American stand-in for Japan).

[king_ghidorah]

[jellydonut25]

[Flame of Udin]

[metal_bryan]

[jellydonut25]

[Flame of Udin]

[neo godzilla jr]

[we77964]

[MekaGojira3k]

[ebirahsmeg1]

[king_ghidorah]

Agreed...I'd like to see a loose remake of G 54'/ GTTHM...half of the film being a quasi remake of the 54 film while the second half acted as more of remake of GTTHM...introducing Rodan and Mothra and a plethora of other kaiju as the world's ecosytem goes haywire after Godzilla's cells work their way into the water and air streams...all this would culminate in sort of a Batman Begins ish ending teasing KG's appearance in an eventual sequel