by Invictus » Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:16 pm
Godzilla vs. Destroyer is one of my favorites. Was it a gimmick? Not in a sense of D.C.'s killing of Superman. I honstestly think Toho thought this would be a last Godzilla movie, with Sony's Godzilla only two years out. Hollywood was expecting Sony's Godzilla to be a huge franchise, and Toho was bracing for that. Do you think that Toho would have continued to make Godzilla movies if Sony's Godzilla was successful? No, they would be laughed out. There would be Hollywood making this multi million dollar Godzilla movies and sequels, compared to the few measly millions Toho could provide, do you actually think any company would put themselves at that risk. But, lucky for us, Sony's Godzilla failed, and Toho was able to make Godzilla films again, so in a sense, Godzilla's dying wasn't a gimmick.
As for revisisting the Heisei universe, I'm working on a comic idea for it, so hopefully people will not only see it, but like it.