Details are sketchy, though it seems early discussions have begun. One thing that seems certain is that this will not be a sequel to Roland Emmerich's 1998 Godzilla, which has been mocked relentlessly by its Japanese counterparts in recent films such as Godzilla: Final Wars. It's safe to say that we are looking at what those in the industry like to call a "reboot".
While this news is still fresh and out of the box, there's no word on exactly what we can expect. Bloody Disgusting is on the case, though. And we will let you know when we hear more from them.
Godzilla was released May 7th, 2004 and stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura, Fuyuki Murakami, Sachio Sakai, Toranosuke Ogawa, Ren Yamamoto. The film is directed by Ishirô Honda.
Godzilla was released May 20th, 1998 and stars Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, Michael Lerner, Harry Shearer, Arabella Field. The film is directed by Roland Emmerich.
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Raoul Duke
Awesome.
4 years agoby @raoulduke33Flag
Daydream247
We barely know what the cloverfield monster looks like.... Kinda a good movie, I wouldnt want to see godzilla vs. the Clover, itd be another freddy vs jason.
4 years agoby @daydream247Flag
Vanboy
That Cloverfield monster didn't have a rival his own size. Godzilla needs to show up, stick all of the crab creatures down it's throat and then waste it with his nuclear breath, and make it explode like that chick did in the movie. That would be awesome. And there would be no Japanese actors. This would be our version of Gozilla. I would go see that, because I wanted that Cloverfield Monster to die after it destroyed The Statue of Liberty. That was not an American monster.
4 years agoby @vanboyFlag
T.Clark
"have Godzilla show and fight the Cloverfield monster!"
No.
The whole point of Cloverfield was to make an original monster movie for Americans.
4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
Vanboy
My wife says Godzilla should fight Barney the purple Dinosaur in the new Godzilla movie. That would be awesome. "I love you, you love ... (Cue the nuclear breath). The end!
4 years agoby @vanboyFlag
Vanboy
I just had a revelation. Have JJ Abrams make Cloverfield II, but have Godzilla show and fight the Cloverfield monster!
4 years agoby @vanboyFlag
ollie-styrene
Bring back godzilla, but not in Japan.. New york served as a perfect playground.. Emmerich`s version is the best.. Emmerich is a great movie maker as long as he doesen`t make stories from 10 000 bc...
4 years agoby @ollie-styreneFlag
Jokers_Wild_X
Yahzee, i respect your opinion on liking that Godzilla movie, but Godzilla movies never were supposed to make much sense, it was just as entertaining as watching the power rangers megazords fighting some deformed colorful villain. I would like to see an amalgramation of the two creatures, like, instead of a large, silver t-rex with spikes coming out of its joints, maybe he could be like, a lean green scaled old style Godzilla. I think he should still be able to lift things and punch as well as run, so that he's more unstoppable.
4 years agoby @jokers-wild-xFlag
Yahzee
I love Emmerich's Godzilla. It's one of my favorite movies ever! You can trash me and that movie, but it is exactly what it's supposed to, an entertaining film about a giant creature destroying a major city and fighting the military. The idea of the Japanese Godzilla is great, but every one of the Japaneses version I've seen is stupid. The acting is MUCH WORSE than the American version, and the creature itself it seems like a stupid mindless monster who destroys everything because it just has to. I wasn't really interested in anything Godzilla until Emmerich made that fun film, even with all the flaws it might have, it's the best version of the monster ever. And despite all the hating, Patrick Tatopoulos design of the creature is beuftiful. I would have liked a sequel and waited for years, until I realized nobody else seems to like the first.
This new movie I hope won't follow the Japanese version and design too close to the fat ass, sloooooow monster they have.
4 years agoby @yahzeeFlag
Jokers_Wild_X
Actually..lol I want to work on this movie now. I just came up with an awesome way to do this film XD
4 years agoby @jokers-wild-xFlag
Jokers_Wild_X
I can't say I hated the 98 Godzilla movie, but I can say (like someone else said before me) if it wasn't labeled as a Godzilla movie, it would have been an amazing Monster movie.
As for the origins of Godzilla, a good way to sort of tie in Godzilla to King Kong, (be free to use this Ottley if you want lol) since, Godzilla was originally a Godzillasaurus in the movies, he could be from skull island, and then due to nuclear testing, he becomes godzilla and hibernates in the ocean for many years before being disrupted and basically freaking out on the nearest landmass. That's a good reboot.
And as for Director, I would say to not use JJ, since he's had a taste of the monster world and is still going on about with CL2.
Then there's Peter Jackson, who could do well with tying it together with his King Kong,
but as amazing as it was, King Kong was powerfully boring in the beginning.
I believe that maybe if Peter Jackson was a producer and Michael Bay directed, we would have the perfect monster movie.
4 years agoby @jokers-wild-xFlag
ed_wood
I like all of the Godzilla movies, there's just something about them. I'm up for another one.
4 years agoby @ed-woodFlag
T.Clark
"Just want to say Godzilla was one of the reason behind why i wanted to do film, so i could never hate it."
Same here...well, not so much Emmerich's version, but just Godzilla as a whole. The movies were probably my first venture into what people could do with a camera and imagination...I mean, a giant mutated dinosaur that breathed fire and battled a huge f*cking moth?!?! When I was a kid, that was like crack lmao
4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
Lock and Stock
Just want to say Godzilla was one of the reason behind why i wanted to do film, so i could never hate it.
And when i actually think about it, Raimi could do a really good job after seing the giant sandman in the end of S-M-3, that states he does giant monster stuff.
And for me working on a draft, i wish i could, but iv'e so much other work of my own in development i would not have time, but someday i will do something on it.
Godzilla should be made in a proper old school fashion like Kong, so they can make the bridge scene work out emotionally. Heck, if things really work out for it, why not make a Godzilla Vs Kong all over again.
Godzilla rules.
4 years agoby @m-man360Flag
T.Clark
Godzilla is in kinda the same situation that Superman is in. The Superman movies have been good(save for 3 and 4) but it didn't stick to the source material. He needs a reboot for people to stay interested in him. Emmerich's Godzilla was good(to me, at least) but it didn't stick to the origins presented in the Japanese films. Like Superman, Godzilla needs a reboot to regain interest, and I think people would love to see the big green guy back on the big screen...and not like Godzilla 2000. That was still part of the Japanese series...Asian actors, Asian acting. For this movie to be successful, it basically needs to be a remake of the original with more backstory, better visuals, and set in this time period.
4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
T.Clark
I've been a fan of Godzilla since I could sh*t in my diaper and giggle about it, and I didn't find Emmerich's version insulting. It was a Hollywood version of a Japanese monster. I loved the ending when he dies on the bridge. It was like King Kong falling off of the tower. Sure it could be corny at times and it had faults, but the visuals were impressive and I found the storyline intriguing once the possibility of eggs were introduced. They took a lot of chances with that movie, and I think it could have gone a hell of a lot worse.
Godzilla's look is constantly changing. In the first few movies he was a tough sonuvabitch who toppled buildings. Once Godzilla vs. King Kong was a hit and Japan got the idea that pitting him against a different monster every movie was a good idea, his snout got shorter, his eyes bigger, and, let's face it, he became kind of a wimp. Then came Godzilla 2000 and it looked like he was jacked up on nuclear steroids. Throughout the course of the movies, his personality, or whatever you wanna call it, changed, too. The first flick introduced him as a big monster that destroyed stuff with no regard for human lives. As the series progressed, he became more of a "hero" because he faught off alien threats. He's even been presented as a father figure.
Therefore, "Godzilla purists" can f*ck off. Nothing's ever been consistent about Godzilla.
4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
Vanboy
Dark_Knight10, Yes it did leave the door wide open for a sequel, but it's not going to happen. That was the Star Trek: Nemesis of Godzilla movies. Godzilla does not... and I repeat NOT get pregnant. That Godzilla had potential, but Godzilla running and hiding from the helicopters and borrowing through buildings? I mean I hated when they shot him with the missles and he died. Godzilla is supposed to get pissed off when he gets hit with missles, not die. And by the end of the movie, I could swear I was watching Jurassic Park! I like that they made him look more realistic, like an iguana, but he should have kicked ass more and walked on his hind legs. I mean Godzilla purists detested it.
4 years agoby @vanboyFlag
Vanboy
J.A.Ottley, Great pic! Awesome man! You hit the mark!
Newkill200, Hilarious man!"...It's a f*cking lizard. Godzilla is not a lizard. It's a f*cking creature monster". LOL!
4 years agoby @vanboyFlag
Robert Mata
i love roland emmerich's Godzilla and i hope this will be a sequel because the first one left the door open to a sequel
4 years agoby @the-dark-knight10Flag
Newkill3000
I use to be a huge fan of Godzilla. That was until Emmerich took my f*cking dreams and ruined that entire franchise. I f*cking hate everything about that movie. It's not even Godzilla. It's a f*cking lizard. Godzilla is not a lizard. It's a f*cking creature monster.
4 years agoby @newkill200Flag
A-J
This shud be gd knew it was gonna happen sooner or later
4 years agoby @ajlewisFlag
J.A.Ottley.Writer / Director
Hmmmm, interesting this could be really well, if researched and sourced properly, i've been doing research into it, because i was writing a remake treatment that is Godzilla related that being an updated version to the 1963 Godzilla vs King Kong, which serves as a sequel to both Emmerich's Godzilla & Jackson's King Kong. And yes such a plot is plausible if thinking in the correct mind-set.
On to directors
On Micahel Bay, i agree with Vis, MB is very poor at creating character development, and well a project scale like this needs some human interaction.
Raimi, i know his attached to Spidey & Warcraft, in hwich honestly i don't see Warcraft going any where, but id like to see his take on this could be very intresting.
J.J, yeah it would just seem like a repetition of Cloverfield all over again, so no thanks, focus on M.I.4 & Star Trek 2 & 3, J.J
4 years agoby @chronicFlag
Vanboy
"Daydream believer". Call them up.
4 years agoby @vanboyFlag
Daydream247
Godzilla.... Hope they can make it cool. But yall notice Hollywood is only rebooting movies now a days. They need somebody like me, fresh ideas.
4 years agoby @daydream247Flag
UNoLazyboy
This is awesome. I love Godzillla. I'm excited for a reboot to this movie, although I never did think the 1998 version was terrible. I thought it was pretty good.
4 years agoby @unolazyboyFlag
Vanboy
Peter Jackson or James Cameron would come up with mind blowing stories for this. I didn't like the hand held shaky camera work in Cloverfield. It wore on my nerves quick. I was saying, "Show the damn monster already"! Luckily I didn't go to the theater to see it. And there's that news about a sequel to Cloverfield, so Abrams might be sticking with that as his monster movie of choice. I wanted '97s Godzilla to work. I just don't think Godzilla would be stopped by bridge cables and a couple of fighter missles. He would have blown those planes out of the sky with his nuclear breath! I think that this new one could be awesome, given that they have learned from their mistakes.
4 years agoby @vanboyFlag
Lock and Stock
VIS, Godzilla was also one of my first film to see, and i would love to see this one rebooted in america.
J.J is perfect for the job, i don't think i want to see Raimi do this. I would personnaly love to see Burton take a shot, making it look old school like Kong.
4 years agoby @m-man360Flag
T.Clark
I have nearly all the old Japanese flicks. I've been thinking about this for some time. Godzilla needs an update here in the U.S.
Emmerich's version was the first movie I ever saw in a theater. I was five. Maybe it holds a "sweet spot" but I think it's pretty good. If the name "Godzilla" wasn't attached to it, people would have thought it was an awesome monster flick. HOWEVER, that's not to say it didn't have faults and I definitely think Hollywood should resurrect Godzilla on the big screen in a way that stays more true to the original films.
As far as a director goes, Michael Bay wouldn't work. Yes, he's destructive. Yes, I liked the Transformers movies. BUT, the Transformers actually have personalities. Bay's action-oriented style worked for those movies because he could throw in some interaction between the robots while still using his prized special effects. Godzilla is different. He'd have to introduce real-human interaction, too. I don't bash him as much as most do for that...I thought Armageddon was pretty emotional. But I'd rather he stick to the robots because for this movie to succeed, it needs to be more than "destructive."
My vote would be J.J. Abrams. Producer of Cloverfield, director of Star Trek...he's nearly perfect for it if he wasn't committed to the new Star Trek series. My second pick would be Sam Raimi...too bad he's already attached to Spider-Man and Warcraft.
4 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag
Lock and Stock
I think that this movie would be perfect for him, i think because he has established himself in the Mystery/Thriller section(Following,Memento and Insomnia.) The mind taking short section (Doodlebug.) The superhero section (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight.) And the Supernatural/Sci-fi section (The Prestige and Inception.) I think he has one more field to take care of the Mindless Action section (Godzilla). I think with his dark mind he can make Godzilla work out right by adding some sort of origin story to the equation, as for Writers get Jonathan Nolan and Stuart Beetie. My second choice would also be Michael Bay because we have already seen him blow stuff up, (but honestly i don't want him near this project at all.) And probably J.J Abrams.
4 years agoby @m-man360Flag
Lock and Stock
Nolan would be perfect for this.
4 years agoby @m-man360Flag