Godzilla '98 sequel?

[Dr.Doom]

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[†~AntiChrist~†]

Thats just th opening isnt it?

 

[deathshead2]

Some of the episodes for that show were great. Whatever happened to that animtion company? They did some of my fave shows from the 90s. Big guy, and MIB.

 

[†~AntiChrist~†]

I watch bits of it...Wasnt really into godzilla then..

 

[deathshead2]

I watch bits of it...Wasnt really into godzilla then..

If Fox made a show. I was in to it.

 

[†~AntiChrist~†]

I was more a spidey guy then..

 

[deathshead2]

I was more a spidey guy then..

Which Fox did. Which means I watched the hell out of it. Had some of the toys for that show to. Didn't have many spider-man comics though. No comic shop. Jsut a gas station that got random issues every few months.

 

[†~AntiChrist~†]

oh..

 

[Grievous]

I get what your saying...But they have been put in a fight with each other and the jap zilla wins.That makes him better from that point of view..But I think if that movie was american made..the 98 version would win because it would be favourited by people....

yeah Each Zilla wins in each persons point of view so there can never be no clear cut winner. Anyway I like both Zillas and that should be the way of everyone. Because they were both awesome.

 

[Timstuff]

I never watched much of the Godzilla series because it was always on at the same time as Men In Black. Ironic, since they were from the same animation studio...

 

[Super Kal]

never watched the Godzilla series... wasn't interested

 

[Dangerous]

Hollywood does Godzilla= Crap.

 

[†~AntiChrist~†]

Godzilla 98 had potential..

 

[Stevens25]

Maybe this is just something I wanted to see,but was there ever any plan for a remake of Godzilla vs. King Kong? I'd see that(as long as G wins ).

 

[Obi-Ron]

Godzooky FTW

 

[turtlefocker]

Yesterday I thought of how they could have taken G98 from "controversial moneymaker" to "instant classic." They should have dumped Matthew Broderick and replaced him with Arnold Schwarzenegger! I pretty much can't think of any of Broderick's scene in the movie that wouldn't have been 10x more awesome if Arnold had been playing his character. Maria Pitillo was absolutely awful in the movie, but Matthew Broderick's character was the one that was supposed to be carrying the story. Broderick has more acting skill than Arnold, sure, but he can't carry an action role to save his grandma. You get Arnold when there are guns and / or monsters involed (which was the case with Godzilla), but Broderick couldn't even lift a gun in the movie!. I would have easily paid $10 just to see Arnold punch a baby Godzilla in the head and then run down a hall firing an M16 while shouting angrily.

If the movie had that, it would have made 700 million and spawned two sequels, easy as pie.

maybe with the success of "Cloverfield" they'll remake "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" and take your advice. Although since Arnold is to old they could cast someone like Bale in it.

It'd be an instant success.. Take BALE, Megan Fox, 175 million dollars, "cloverfied" level destruction/brutality, an R rating, the marketability of it being a remake of a classic, have Len Wiseman direct, and just ****ing go brutal. Rambo meets Cloverfield with the sexiness of Megan Fox.

 

[†~AntiChrist~†]

Maybe this is just something I wanted to see,but was there ever any plan for a remake of Godzilla vs. King Kong? I'd see that(as long as G wins ).

No, I dont think so..

 

[Gabe99]

10 Questions with Mike Schlesinger

Q2. You’re a long-time Godzilla fan. Tell us about your involvement in Godzilla 2000.

Well, that’s not a short story, but I’ll try to make it so. Sony’s distribution chief Jeff Blake (whom I largely owe my career to) happened to be in Japan when G2K opened and was breaking records. Since the Emmerich version didn’t turn out to be the most-beloved film of its generation, the studio was unsure of how to proceed. Jeff felt that releasing G2K here would be at least a place-keeper and at best a make-good to the fans who felt let down by the Emmerich.

We had a screening, and there was considerable concern: the pace was slack and the dubbing was pretty dire. Jeff was having second thoughts. I assured him that with some judicious editing and a new dub it’d be right as rain. He said, “Okay, then you do it.” And just like that it was in my lap. He figured, I hope correctly, that I was the only one there who’d actually seen some Godzilla movies and would have the right handle on it. So with a release date breathing down our necks, I dove right in.

Jimmy Honore, then Sony’s post-production czar, provided me with an editor and a sound man. Toho’s local guy, Masaharu Ina, was also involved, as every single change had to be approved by Tokyo. I wrote a new script, hired a swell bunch of Asian-American actors to reloop, and worked with the editor to sweat nine minutes of fat out of the film (over 130 individual cuts) and restructuring scenes to increase the tension. We rebuilt the soundtrack from scratch, adding some new music cues (including a couple of classic Ifukube themes) and creating foley for scenes that had been played in total background silence. I even did directional dialogue in some scenes. The sound guys were brilliant and completely supportive, and very complimentary whenever I came up with a suggestion that worked. Happily, Toho (albeit a bit grudgingly at first) admitted that our version was a big improvement; so much so that they even re-released it subtitled in Tokyo, as well as a few other countries, like India. The reviews here were mostly positive (if sometimes patronizing). It made money. And best of all, I got a six-week crash course in post-production that has served me very well. Even I was surprised at how quickly I picked it up. And I have the unique honor of being the first person to put a line of Yiddish in a Godzilla movie.

Q5. There’s a legend in the film world about your long-lost Godzilla script, which was almost shot by Joe Dante. Please, relate the whole story, down to why it didn’t get made. Is there any hope for it now?

Legend? Seriously? Wow. Anyway, it’s doubtful it’ll ever get made, what with the new Warners version coming out next year. It started, as so much of my life does, with a joke. I ran into my friend Jon Davison one day; he was at Sony producing The Sixth Day. I told him about what Toho was doing with my version of G2K (as related above), and he said, “Yeah, you’re really Mr. Godzilla now.” I laughed, “Yeah, and if these guys were smart, they’d get you, me and Joe to do the next American one.” He said, “Hey, we’re there.” Later in the day, I was pondering this and thought, “Well, why not? Who better to save the franchise?” So I called them both and asked if they were interested. They were, so I went in to the Columbia production head and pitched the idea of a “Wrath of Khan”-like sequel: a modestly-budgeted, man-in-suit picture, using Toho’s effects people, but set in America with English-speaking actors. I said we could do it for $20 million. He was intrigued, but said he really couldn’t authorize it. However, if I wanted to write it on spec, they would certainly consider it if it came out as good as I said it would. That was fine by me.

So I went home and got to work. I set it in Hawaii for various reasons, among them that I’d need no tortured explanation of how Godzilla got there, not to mention the unlikelihood of any actor turning down a feature being shot in Hawaii. (My suggested tagline: “Say aloha to your vacation plans.”) I decided to follow the Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein Rule–make the human scenes funny and play the monster stuff straight. I wrote it with genre favorites in mind for the cast: Bruce Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Scott Bakula, Christopher Lee, Leonard Nimoy and of course Joe’s stock company. After jokingly giving it the temporary title of Godzilla—East of Java, I settled on Godzilla Reborn, which referred to not only the franchise but also the storyline, in which he’s killed and eventually resuscitated. Sid Ganis eventually came on board as a producer as well. Everybody adored the script. It shoulda been a no-brainer.

Unfortunately, by the time I finished it, Columbia had a new production head, and he wanted no part of it. Wouldn’t even read it. It takes balls to say that to Sid Ganis, who’s a former Academy president, but he did. And there ya go. Now everyone’s too old for their parts and Warners has the franchise. A damn shame; it would’ve been a monster hit. Pun intended.

 

[Gabe99]

SciFi Japan:
THE GODZILLA SEQUEL THAT WASN’T
An Interview with Michael Schlesinger on His Unmade Project, GODZILLA REBORN

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

I'm sure Godzilla Reborn would have been fun to watch.