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Godzilla stomping back to theaters
Godzilla stomping back to theaters via Legendary
By Ace Fernandez Well, well, well ... look who's getting back in fighting shape. Everyone's favorite gigantic, havoc-wreaking lizard, Godzilla, is on his way back to the big screen via Legendary Pictures, which has acquired the rights to develop and produce a new feature based on the iconic Toho Co. character. Warner Bros. will co-produce, co-finance and distribute through its deal with Legendary, and Toho will roll out the film in Japan. Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Brian Rogers are also producing; Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira and Doug Davison will be executive producers on the project. The last major Godzilla outing, an American, New York-set version from Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, grossed $376 million worldwide in 1998 despite fielding equally major criticism. Toho quickly produced "Godzilla 2000," in which the big beast took on an evil UFO, the following year. But the Godzilla franchise juggernaut has survived decades of permutations (he first appeared in 1954), dozens of films, books, video games and merchandising tie-ins and seems perpetually ready to rear up again for new audiences. The new film is shooting for a 2012 release. "Godzilla is one of the world's most powerful pop culture icons, and we at Legendary are thrilled to be able to create a modern epic based on this long-loved Toho franchise," said Thomas Tull, chairman and CEO of Legendary. "Our plans are to produce the Godzilla that we, as fans, would want to see. We intend to do justice to those essential elements that have allowed this character to remain as pop culturally relevant for as long as it has." Added Jeff Robinov, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Group, "Godzilla is emblematic of the kind of branded, event films for which Warner Bros. and our partners at Legendary are best known." The two companies have partnered on such global properties as "Batman Begins," "The Dark Knight," "Superman Returns" and "The Hangover," which have grossed more than $2 billion worldwide. Together, they have a remake of "Clash of the Titans" stomping into theaters Friday. |
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Well it's based of the original b&w Godzilla.
And the full body shots down't really look that way. Scroll down to the spoiler toy pics...
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Ohh, how delightful! Full frontal, but not as good as a few of the ones posted in the True Detective thread.
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And Godzooky!
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02-26-2014, 02:51 PM | #214 |
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OMG, what a disaster.
As for this new film, I'm kind of excited to see it.
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Silly Godzoosky.
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If he was JUST a giant, sabertoothed turtle maybe. But no. With jets... [imghttp://www.avmaniacs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gameraten1.jpg[/img] and a breath weapon. In all honesty, though, I was a Gamera kid. He was my favorite monster from those silly monster movies. But...seriously....?
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Think the dumbest monster of all was the amazing Ginshu Knife monster Gamera fought. Who, of course, could also whip throwing stars around, which flew out of his head.
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I wasn't a Gamera fan when I was a kid. However, I recently bought this on a whim for $7:
While the effects aren't great, it wasn't too bad. When i was a kid, my favorite kaiju were Mothra and Rodan. |
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I liked both of them. I don't have a very specific memory, but I'm pretty sure I cried when one Rodan went into a volcano to save his/her brother/sister/child or whatever, and both died. 'course I was probably 7 or something. Mothra. If you don't know this song you don't belong to my generation.
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IGN super nerd breakdown of new trailer...
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Since I watched the whole thing, I'm obviously also a super nerd. Not that this is news, really...
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http://www.amazon.com/The-Godzilla-C...lla+collection
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Enjoyed that with the super nerdism breakdown. I really hope this is done well, looks awesome. I thought Man of Steel looked spectacular with the trailer and it was ok as a movie.
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