Godzilla - Legendary Pictures Project

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From Thompson on Hollywood:

[quote="Anne Thompson & Cameron Carlson"]
The giant Japanese green monster Godzilla is back. So like The Hulk, Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, The Addams Family, Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans and so many other familiar properties, Hollywood is going back to the well with a franchise and an easy-sell name. Sigh.

Last time, in 1998, Sony oversold Godzilla as a hulking surefire blockbuster, plastered on gigantor-sized billboards everywhere. But something went terribly wrong with Sony’s Roland Emmerich Godzilla. Part of it was that Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park dinosaurs were so much better. Also, Emmerich’s sense of scale was off: the thing was too big to be comprehended inside the frame. It wasn’t scaleable, somehow. Now, in an ever-expanding CG universe, anything is possible.

Another reason for Legendary and Warner Bros. to add this project to their franchise arsenal: while the 1998 movie, which cost $130 million, was blasted by critics and grossed $136,314,294 domestically, that figure repped just 36 % of its worldwide $242,700,000 total (per Box Office Mojo). That’s not so bad. They acquired the rights from Toho studios to make another Hollywood Godzilla movie. Six movies have been made since the 1998 Emmerich film in Japan, and Toho retains the rights for Japanese distribution. Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes), Roy Lee and 3-D expert Brian Rogers will produce; he was working with producer Kenji Okuhira and writer Yoshimitsu Banno on a 3-D IMAX Godzilla; they have been folded into this project as exec producers, along with Doug Davison.

Also, Legendary genre maven Thomas Tull (who has partnered with Warners on Superman, The Watchmen and the Chris Nolan Batman films) pledges to return to the basics of the original series. “Godzilla is one of the world’s most powerful pop culture icons,â€

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But Tull’s a huge fanboy, and Godzilla is something he’s wanted to do his whole life. This one’s all about passion.
cautiously more optimistic...

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This new Godzilla will be vastly different. It needs to be. Sure, it will stick to the basic Godzilla recipe (muscly posture, dorsals on the back, upright walking, mean, fire breathing) but it sure will 'taste' different. This is where GINO failed to captivate both the die hard G fans and the rest of the viewing public. He wasn't 'Godzilla.' Sure he had some of the same ingredients, but was as different from Godzilla as a cupcake is to a pie.
(mm this is making me hungry!)

Expect Godzilla to receive a G'54/GMK-esque treatment. He's going to be darker.. Meaner.. And he's going to be a huge success. There will be sequels..

Just my opinion