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Godzilla Due to Make His 29th Film

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (37)

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Legendary Pictures has secured the rights from Toho Company to make another Godzilla movie in the United States. Warner Brothers will be co-financing and co-distributing the film stateside. A 2012 release is planned.

The movie will be about a giant lizard monster. He’ll probably growl a lot. Maybe stomp on some shit. Rain, the ocean, and power lines will likely be featured at some point during the film. He’ll probably spit some fire. I’m sure it’ll be in 3D. It will get terrible reviews. No one who sees it will like it. It’ll make $300 million.

The end.









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Comments

Geez. Lay off a bit with the "28 Too Many." Without the original Godzilla, we would never have Mothra. And without Mothra, we would never have Mothra vs. Godzilla, and that is not a world I would want to live in.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2010 10:37 AM

I still remember seeing that promo where Godzilla steps on a T-Rex skeleton in 1998 and nearly biting my tongue in excitement. My friend and looked at each other across the seats where our girlfriends were sitting and high-fived with our MINDS.

I mean, okay, the movie wasn't good, but it had good PARTS. And by "good parts" I mean all the ones with no people on screen. And by "people", I mean Matthew Broderick.

A new Godzilla movie? With 2012 special effects? In 3-D? I give up; you got me.

Posted by: Paul Southworth at March 30, 2010 10:39 AM

Are they going to find a way for Raymond Burr to be in this one?

Posted by: UncleJR at March 30, 2010 10:41 AM

Robert is right. Also, without a 29th kick at the lizard, we wouldn't have an opportunity for Puff Daddy Diddler (or whatever the fuck he calls himself this year) to cover/rape yet another song.

Posted by: Xtreme at March 30, 2010 10:42 AM

The only way any good can come of this is if it's a Godzilla vs. Megashark vs. Giant Octopus vs. Gargantuan Sea Cucumber vs. Glenn Beck vs. Reasonably Sized Moose.

Posted by: admin at March 30, 2010 10:46 AM

Without Godzilla, not only would we not have Mothra, we also wouldn't have Destroy All Monsters, one of my favorite Toho films ever.

Godzilla films also gave us the awesomeness of King Ghidorah, who is three-headed and thoroughly badass.

Not to mention one of my favorite MF Doom monikers.

Seriously, Escape From Monsta Island! is a kickass record.

God, I fucking love the Godzilla movies.

Posted by: TK at March 30, 2010 10:46 AM

Bitch, you obviously ain't seen "Godzilla 2000"!

I'll bet you went to watch Deanzilla that weekend in 1998 instead of "Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas".

DIDN'T YA!

Just don't let no goddamn Yanks or Krauts near the G-Man and it's all good.

Posted by: Jay at March 30, 2010 10:51 AM

I’m sure it’ll be in 3D.
That's good!
It will get terrible reviews.
That's bad.
No one who sees it will like it.
That's good!
It’ll make $300 million. That's bad.

Can I at least get a cursed Frogurt?

Posted by: branded at March 30, 2010 10:57 AM

When I was 5 years old, my family moved to a new house in a new neighborhood. My sister, who is three years older, decided that she wanted to go around and introduce herself and me to our new neighbors.

Unfortunately, we only got to two houses before she ran home crying because I kept introducing myself as "Godzilla".

I loves me some Godzilla. Nothing better than "Godzilla Week" on "Creature Feature" back in the day.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at March 30, 2010 10:58 AM

Unless it's a dude in a gigantic lizard suit stomping around a model of Tokyo I'm gonna pass. I like the classic Godzilla movies, they are good cheeseball fun but they can be seriously tedious at times. But I think without Godzilla there would not have been the classic video game "Rampage", so it has that in its favor. So I'm pro man-in-suit but anti CGI shitfest. But of course it's going to be a CGI shitfest so I'm not going to bother to get up much hope.

BTW, Emmerich's "Godzilla" was pretty awful but I still think it had one of the best and most effective advertising campaigns I've ever seen. The "Size Does Matter" tagline was EVERYWHERE that summer.

Posted by: TylerDFC at March 30, 2010 11:00 AM

admin, I would go see Godzilla vs. Glenn Beck. Or Megashark vs. Glenn Beck. Or most anything versus Glenn Beck, except maybe for Mothra, because I suspect even Glenn Beck can kick a giant moth's ass.

Posted by: Wednesday at March 30, 2010 11:03 AM

And let's not forget Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, thankyouverymuch. Also, besides vs. Mothra and vs. Gidorah, let's not forget my favorite, vs. Hedorah, aka the Smog Monster! And then there was Gigan, and Megalon, and Rodan, and the one where he fought King Kong! And he learned to love little Godzilla Junior. Godzilla is way more than a monster! He's a monster WITH A HEART OF GOLD! Like a hooker. Only bigger. And scalier. Well, not scalier than some hookers, I suppose.

THE POINT IS. Godzilla is AWESOME. Just you shut your mouth, Justin Knowles!

Posted by: Anna von Murderpuppet at March 30, 2010 11:03 AM

Will the Transvestite Donkey Witch's husband be in this one? Smear some of that closeted gayness all over 'Zilla's balls again ya big turd burglar.

This should count as the 30th movie because, you know, Cloverfield and all.

Let's get P. Dumpy to sodomize some Beatles or Nirvana for the next one, then I can really explore my hate and hopefully resolve some other issues while I'm in there.

Posted by: Kballs at March 30, 2010 11:04 AM

GAMARRA IS FRIEND TO CHILDREN.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 30, 2010 11:14 AM

Oh goodness. I forgot about Hedorah. I mean, how could I forget Hedorah? It's (they're?) just the most bizarre of all the bizarre creatures. Spores from outerspace attracted to toxic sludge, growing exponentially and merging into a giant moster that consistently injured the King himself? Yes, please.

However, nothing tops my early childhood memory of seeing the tiny Japanese women saying "Please return the egg" over and over again. I watched the whole film with my father, then turned to him and asked, "What the fuck was that?" After a quick swat to the ass and brief grounding, he explained the film was called Godzilla vs. Mothra and was very good.

Posted by: Robert at March 30, 2010 11:15 AM

HE JOCK IT MADE OF STEEL.
EATS SUSHI FROM A PAIL.
JET JAGUAR?
JET JAGUAR!

Posted by: Jay at March 30, 2010 11:16 AM

Maybe throw it to Nolan or Abrams for a reboot. Godzilla Begins or some shit.

Posted by: ghunda at March 30, 2010 11:20 AM

OMG HOW COULD I FORGET GAMERA!!!!!!!

"Gamera demonstrates the ability to manipulate objects with his forepaws. His mouth is filled with teeth..."

Thanks, Wikipedia!

Posted by: Anna von Murderpuppet at March 30, 2010 11:23 AM

GAMERA IS FULL OF MEAT.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at March 30, 2010 11:27 AM

We've been eating Gamera!

Posted by: bignick at March 30, 2010 12:12 PM

I don't know, these days I think Godzilla is just making movies to cover his mortgage....

Posted by: Odnon at March 30, 2010 12:29 PM

Wait, no Ghidorah? No Mothra? No Hedorah? No Saturday morning cartoon? Dustin, you have a heart of coal. How can you wish for children to live in a world where Godzilla is not around to shock, surprise and entertain them?

Not to mention, one of the greatest songs ever made -- Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla?

Oh no, there goes Tokyo
Go, go, Godzilla!

Posted by: Fredo at March 30, 2010 12:30 PM

I'm going to agree with everyone else who is saying Godzilla fucking kicks ass.

Just ignore that piece of shit with the guy who is married to horseface.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at March 30, 2010 1:20 PM

I hope this one features Godzuki.

It's his time to shine.

Posted by: figgy at March 30, 2010 1:21 PM

You know how sometimes, when you only hear a certain song on the radio in your car, and have never bothered to track down what it's called or who the artist is because you don't care enough? And then sometimes you make up words, because you can't understand what these people are screaming about but, hey, you're in your car so you are, of course, screaming/singing along at the top of your lungs. I THOUGHT this was the case with Blue Oyster Cult's song. I would be happily driving along going "Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah GODZILLA! WoooOOOooooo." No one would ACTUALLY be singing about Godzilla, right?

I was disappointed when I found out, during a revelatory session of Rock Band, that the song is indeed about Godzilla. I liked it when it was my own private made-up song. . .now it's everyone's crazy song. And that sucks-I don't share well.

Posted by: coveredinbees at March 30, 2010 2:41 PM

P.S. "reasonably sized moose". . . snicker

Posted by: coveredinbees at March 30, 2010 2:42 PM

Ah! GOJIRA!

I am SO looking forward to this, I hope it doesn't suck. I'm in the mood to watch (again) a giant monster stomping the ever-living motherfuck out of some hapless burg.

Posted by: The Wanderer at March 30, 2010 2:45 PM

Or 28 Too Many

Now you listen HERE...

[coot]
You are too young to have fond memories of mad fun double-feature Royale wid Cheese Godzilla movies at the theater. I was too young for intoxicants at the time but I imagine weed would have made them even better.

Now, I know that stupid Hollywood (Not Really) Godzilla movie of last decade left a bad taste in people's mouths; personally, I couldn't even get through that Matthew Broderick horror. But the cure is Godzilla 2000. That movie was so ridiculously awesome.

THERE CAN NEVER BE ENOUGH GODZILLA!

[cue Blue Oyster Cult]
[/coot]

Posted by: Jerce at March 30, 2010 3:02 PM

Apropos of very little: I work at a software company. We have a group of servers. They are named after large Japanese movie monsters: Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan...

Also, displaying my ignorance, has Gojira fought a giant octopus? Because that would be fucking awesome. I love octopuses. (And giant fucking squids don't count!)

Posted by: MM at March 30, 2010 5:40 PM

Just to let you all know, my Brother and I are the foremost authorities of Gojira on the eastern seaboard. King kong fought an octopus in Gojira Vs. King Kong, the 98 movie's monster is NOT G-Money, his name is Gino, or according to Toho, simply Zilla. (Gino is an anacronym for Godzilla in name only) and if you want to see him get monkey stomped by the real deal watch Godzilla Final Wars, good stuff.

So says the LoneWolf!

Posted by: IHLoneWolfxx at March 31, 2010 12:31 AM

Oh yeah, Dustin is gay...........

Posted by: IHLoneWolfxx at March 31, 2010 12:32 AM

I cant wait to see this, I used to watch ''TNT MONSTER VISION'' in the early 90's just to see the Godzilla weekends. Loved Godzilla and Still love the big Guy.

Posted by: Eric at March 31, 2010 12:56 AM

people who don't care about giant monster movies have no business making comment. this project has the potential to rebirth or permantely bury Godzilla. if the fx are at and above Cloverfield, it could be just the start but going by current trends in popular culture ( as always these days, there is a bunch of suits pressuring the director/producer into turning it into a big commercial opportunity with a brand here, a slow motion catwalk-like shot there, after all our cast are commodities and we have to think about that lucurative modelling career to come ).the corporate studio will drive this nowhere but a burgerking toy and a single for some worthly mediocre band. they ruin everything just like the way they destroyed music. there are alot of dud Godzilla movies but its the idea of Godzilla that is the draw card. Cloverfield was great but get rid of the wanky rich kids and it would have been even better. you would think with all of this awesome CGI technology tools and money available it wouldn't be a stretch to find a decent screenwriter and director.

Posted by: 80sogre at March 31, 2010 9:00 AM

OK Im a HUGE Godzilla fan. Im wondering why TOHO is selling the rights to an american studio to make another godzilla movie after the last one sucked donkey balls. True GODZILLA FANS hated it like crazy. I mean c'mon it was not GODZILLA - it was CGI, he didn't breath fire. The only resemblance this damn CGI knockoff was the Famous GODZILLA roar. Is Toho really that hard up for money? Why can't Toho make a new Godzilla movie? I want a guy in a rubber suit and not some CGI piece of crap. This studio needs to be true to the real GODZILLA and make the true fans happy. But then again studios are just out to make money and not make fans happy. I will be surprised if they stay true to the real GODZILLA. Long live the KING OF MONSTERS.

Posted by: Zillaboy29 at April 26, 2010 9:39 AM

Who asked about Raymond Burr being in it? he died around like 1993... :-/

Posted by: Luis Hirschlieb at April 26, 2010 1:05 PM

alright well i love godzilla any the other monsters but if they make another movie dont make it shity like the american godzilla i know it wasnt that bad but i think it should be a sequal to final war and that him and gamera fight but than another new monster kickes the crap out of both of them and than they team up and fight the new monster but hey thats just my opinion oh and maybe a remake of king kong vs godzilla that would be kick ass!!!

Posted by: anthony at May 11, 2010 5:46 PM

I love Godzilla douche!
As long as i see the REAL GODZILLA IN THE TRAILER then im sold.
Godzilla rules an Long Live the King of the Monsters.

Posted by: John at July 3, 2010 1:54 AM