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Look Upon The American Godzilla For 2012!! Make Him Use His Nuke Breath!!
Merrick here...
This story got kinda funky...
Several sites are running some of the details you see below, while one or two others are reporting that the following (specifically the Godzilla design) is erroneous.
Harry's folks say it's real...so here you go. Enjoy!
Merrick here...
One of the more clever, and understated, reveals of this year's Comic-Con was the unveiling of the new Americanized Godzilla - still slated to hit the big screen via Legendary Pictures in 2012. The folks over at Talking Dog Studios developed a promotional T-shirt that featured this striking artwork of the beast's design...
...which apparently made the rounds at SDCC.
Pretty cool piece of art in my opinion - the image suggests we'll get a film more closely resembling the GODZILLA pictures we love and understand, as opposed to something like, say, Emmerich and Devlin's 1998 interpretation.
But there's more to this shirt and art than meets the eye. Via the peculiar magic of Augmented Reality, anyone wearing these T-shirts can make Godzilla spew out his famous fire breath...an effect that looks something like this:
The embed above is from an interesting "Making of..." blog that can be found HERE, by the way.
Okay...so if you're like me...i.e. shit out of luck and without that badass Godzilla shirt that breathes fire...here's a super cool little trick. If you click THIS LINK, you can access a high-res version of the Geektacular image seen above. If you print out said image, you can return to THIS location - from there you can do that jiffy-cool nuke breath stuff on your own webcam and computer, with your own printout, without a shirt.
This stuff is a lot of fun...and a tip-of-the-hat to whoever conjured up such an inventive ploy. And, again, I dig that art. Here's hoping whoever ends up making this thing embraces the vibe suggested by that image.
All of this is awesome, but I still want a damn shirt...
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In what way does that single photo "suggest" that the film is going to be closer to either the Japanese originals, or the 1998 American remake? It's just a fucking photo of Godzilla on some burning buildings. That could mean *anything*, goddamn it.
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Oh no! There goes Tokyo!
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That poster would be great if they could replace Godzilla with Harry blasting his fiery taco farts
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That poster would be great if they could replace Godzilla with Harry blasting his fiery taco farts
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Number One: he looks like freaking Godzilla. If you don't think so, go watch some movies. Please.
Number two, he isn't dwarfed by the buildings around him. -
look very carefully at what you said..'it's just a photo of Godzilla..'
No shot from the 1998 GINO film could be described as 'a photo of Godzilla.' That alone suggests improvement. -
Seriously though, hate all you want I have always thought a Michael Bay Godzilla fighting ANOTHER giant monster (not the military helicopters. Again) would be the equivalent of a really good Vegas buffet. Too much, too big, but you can't help but eat yourself silly and relish in the overload.
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Jesus, Toho could crank this out in 30 days. I'm so tired of waiting years for a movie.
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Obvious, but I've had nightmares about running from his feet...We need a Godzilla vs King Kong remake.
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Nobody's gonna fuck on you! I'm on your side! I hate Godzilla! I hate him too! I hate him! He destroys cities! *Please*! This isn't your fault. I'll get you some pants.
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it was on an official LEGENDARY T-SHIRT promoting their GODZILLA film property - I'll put it like that.
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Two bookends to the monster. Let it be.
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That's the kinda wishful thinking that ends in dire disappointment...More than a bit early to be spouting silly predictions like that based on some artwork.
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Have you found out wtf caused your' allergic reaction?
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The shirt shows promise (It looks like Godzilla to me) BUT, I would really like to see the final design, see who's directing, what the story looks like etc. Once those pieces are in place, then and ONLY then can I relax.
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Get him to do it. Or those guys that he got to do Cloverfield. Imagine Cloverfield without the shakey cam.
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Ten times the film Gojira is. Has to be set in London though.
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I think suitmation and miniatures should be utilized for the special effects as opposed to CGI. The Toho movies, even the good ones, were made quickly and cheaply, and some of the more recent ones have some genuinely good effects. Imagine what a big budget Hollywood production could do with more time and more money.
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i want a high-dollar remake of GODZILLA vs THE SMOG MONSTER. but not fucked-up
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...of Emmerich and Devlin's 1998 interpretation of Godzilla, He loved it ! Man In Suit ! Or Fat Man in paid up five star hotel getting "pwesents" to write a boot licking review? Okay, Harry has since gone thru rehab and personally admitted he was on some insane sugar high to even remotely compose a positive review of that piece of vile shit. If Toho doesn't have full on control and is running the show, then fuck this road kill of a lizard movie and all that sail on her. Put that in your T-shirt and smoke it.
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If you want to see what a GOOD cross between suitmation, miniatures and CG look like. See Gamera 3: Revenge of Irys, It's a few years old but the effects still look surprisingly good. as far as CGI, it could be done well enough. Just look at this, then imagine the big lizard with some top notch effects for his skin, scales etc. http://tinyurl.com/lx3n44
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that is now a word
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I'm one of the few people that liked the '98 Godzilla, and probably the only one that prefers the American look instead of the traditional (and, IMO, outdated) japanese look. I never liked that stand-straight-on-two-legs look for Godzilla because it looks too humanoidish, you kind of forget he's a reptilian animal and makes it feel like it's some guy in a suit. Creatures/monsters are more believable when they're more animal-like, which is why I always preferred the Emmerich Godzilla's look, it looked more lizard-like than the traditional one. I understand if you don't like that they made Godzilla an iguana instead of a lizard in the '98 film, but hey, as far as I know, there's not a single reptile that stands on its hind legs like that. It looks stupid and ridiculous.
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You can make it look like Godzilla without having it stand completely upright. The creature in 98 neither looked or ACTED like the unstoppable behemoth of nuclear wrought terror that the ORIGINAL Godzilla was supposed to represent (not a lizard, mutated dinosaur of the theropod order) We want a nice big budget Godzilla movie where it's actually Godzilla and not some chicken shit hermaphrodite with Jay Leno's chin. We want a Godzilla who will shrug of conventional attacks and then lay waste to his attackers.
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Yes, T-Rex walked on all fours and you like your movies from the $5.00 bin at Wal-Mart. If Dean Devlin & Roland Emmerich had made their own giant monster movie instead of cheesily ripping off an iconic name and having a half-assed new Godzilla design well then the 1998 Godzilla would be remembered as much as their sci-fi flick Moon 44. The 1998 Gozilla toys from it are now 180 feet below sea level in a land fill. I don't see it even getting replay on TBS Superstation at 4 am. I'm not against a CGI Godzilla but to drastically change the design to have something new and improved is fucking pointless. A creature with pissed off personality is what this pre-production art wants to go for. Too early to say based on one drawing.
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Just make the hind legs look more reptilian & the neck/face resemble that model cast pix that leaked & i'm a happy camper. Oh & real atomic breath!
Also, Godzilla is dwarved by Buildings in toho's films too! Godzilla would have to be 828 meters (2,717 feet Tall) from hind legs to top of head to Match the tallest man made structure!!!
As to Godzilla 1998, he was supposed to be more vunerable cuz after all he was the first generation mutation...the young godzilla at the end was apparently supposed to have the true atomic breath & artillery/missile weapon invunerability. -
...that's how Godzilla is going to look, if and when this movie finally happens. Does anyone remember that X-Men teaser poster at the '99 Comic-Con, where Wolverine's (blue-gloved) claws are forming an "X" in the air? That was an official Fox poster and obviously the design looked nothing like the finished product. Still, that t-shirt is pretty cool and no matter what the final Godzilla looks like, it'd be awesome to have.
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MAN IN SHIRT!
MAN IN SHIRT!
MAN IN SHIRT! -
Of all the properties out there ripe for revamping, why pick Godzilla? The classics were fun, cheesy and at times downright unintentional comedy. You had to have an incredible capacity to suspend your disbelief to buy into these flicks and that was part of the fun. To adapt this atomic-breathed, near-invulnerable monster into a realistic contemporary movie would be absurd and kinda a slap in the face to the Japanese franchise. I say let Godzilla rest in peace before we do more damage to the legend.
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is involved with making the new film? if it's still Godzilla vs. Deathla for that matter, only now Jun got Legendary helping with it?!
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Er that would be Godzilla...except even stiff, one dimensional Japanese people running around would be more realistic than those modules in Cloverfield.
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You are the one who's outdated. Godzilla is simply iconic, and you don't mess with iconic.
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Yeah, we want good ol' iconic Godzilla (Gojira) back where it belongs: To The Big Fuckin' Screen! And NO effin' GINO! Would have been a lovefest, if JJA had old Godzilla at the end of Cloverfield! That would have been c.l.a.s.s.i.c.!!!
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he better act like Godzilla.
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Okay, maybe not, but at least he looks like Godzilla.
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Jun Fukuda died 10 years ago.
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Meh... doesn't look like Godzilla to me.
I bet Toho sees this as a quick way to gain so money by selling their (what I guess) most marketable franchise. When you watch “Final Wars“ you see how much “admiration“ Toho had for the Emmerich Version. Original Godzi blows it to shit with just one fire beam!! And that was their (and also my) final word in that matter...
Bring me japanese Godzi or no Godzi at all, dammit!!
By the way, Godzi would eat that Cloverfield fucker alive and it would be forgotten with just one monstrous burp.. -
Let me count the disillusionment to come. As we will get close to 2012 much preproduction work will be done, but then Legendary will have severe financial problems and the director will quit. Hobbit anyone? Then, we will learn that they are remaking the GOOD Godzilla from the '70s who is the friend of all Japanese children.
Finally we will learn that they are hastily making it in 3D in post-production so that will suck.
Give Godzilla back to Roland Emmerich and be done with it instead of watching your dreams die a slow death. -
Isn't Gamera friend to all children. Godzilla is more of a loner. I would love to hear Nickleback's interpertation of the Jet Jaguar song though!
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...an iguana is a lizard. Oh yeah, plus a large number of lizards that are alive right now do rise up and run on their hind legs. Let's see, off the top of my head, the dragon lizard, the checkered lizard, the collared lizard, and there's even a basilisk lizard that can run on two legs across water. If you're going to act like an expert on something it might help to...you know...know something about it.
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...at this point it says nothing about the movie, but it does tell me I wish I owned one of those shirts.
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Sweating.
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Godzilla Final Wars is badass. Godzilla toasts GINO in one scene.
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Seriously that was funny. I don't trust this movie due to Americans always fucking up Japanese products.
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also set in monopoly land with a space invasion and a love story resulting in the marriage of mr and mrs pacman. oh and have baby pacman fight baby godzilla in the final battle of the movie. Please.
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...or steroids...
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...you would have James Bama's Doc Savage.
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Bunch of hipster a-holes with a camera try to escape the rampaging beast. "Did you see it? IT'S A LIZARD!!!"
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But Americans can´t do a good Gojira movie. Gojira is 100% Japanese.
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Yes buildings will dwarf him.
Cloverfield was a good movie that Abrahms said was a Godzilla movie told from human perspective which had never been done.
I think I saw the human perspective thing in The War of the World remake. -
...and I'm all out of sushi.
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I don't see the need for an American Godzilla movie. Giant monster movie, fine, but call it something else, and start from scratch with an original concept. Godzilla just doesn't translate to America.
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...in XXL. Unfortunately eBay only has a L for sale right now.
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godzilla friend of the children is my absolute favorite godzilla. G vs Megalon is great.
bring back jet jaguar i say and his cool soundtrack.
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THIS WAS ON IO9 SUNDAY, AND SEVERAL OTHER SITES MONDAY
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You know you liked that song. You know you were all about that video, because you were tacky, tacky geeks in 1998. I just thought I would bring the memory back. You're welcome. Take that take that.
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The new Godzilla will resemble the classic Godzilla to some degree. The studio isn't that stupid to no learn from the mistakes made in the 98 version.
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Published in 2007, once again William Gibson was ahead of the curve when it comes to predicting where technology is going.
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Yoshimitsu Banno, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0052419/ ,thanks Gojira_X!
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Because if this is another Godzilla vs CGI Tonka toys sh!tfest, then the makers of the movie are f***ing idiots, plain and simple. I vote for the look of the Godzilla that was made of the angered souls of dead soldiers and Nuked a children's school. SWWEEEET.
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And then add the Grizzly-bear-esque body and cat-like features and you have a neo-retro 'Zilla that new and old will like. Man, I wish Stan Winston were still alive.
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and it was rubbish!
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Someone should get JJ Abrams to do it....he can spend all his 'imagination' on a PR campaign prior to its release - websites with all kind of cryptic / non-sensical drivel - which makes 'everyone' intrigued....and then they go off to watch 'Godzilla meets Blair Witch Project'.....sorry, 'Cloverfield'...my mistake!
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Fuck, that "drawering", see old school Mike Meyers for the reference, is horrid. Looks like it was banged out over the course of a weekend, if that. Best American Godzilla attempt was that bit they did on Arrested Development. Here's your movie, GODZILLA vs. The LOST Smoke Monster, and the smoke monster IS crazy Nanobots out to remake the world into a apocalyptic purgatory~! Godzilla stomps on Church with Losties in it. Or the big glowey afterlife they walk into is his atomic breath! Relax, I'm not that full of hate, but until I see something more impressive, this is just not Cool News!
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If we are fortunate then TOHO will have learned a lesson from their LAST outing and retain MUCH more creative control of their character. Tonally, Legendary needs to bring it back to the first Gojira 1954 (not the Raymond Burr version) even if there's another creature in the mix, make them seem like they are a GENUINE threat.
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His neck has grown bigger than his head, and his biceps are the size of blimps? Still, much better than GINO.
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use the money on something else
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Does MMA stuff.
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Bank on that shit.
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First, let me say that I have faith in Legendary Pictures with this film. We got the director of "Godzilla vs. Hedorah" Yoshimitsu Banno producing and LP president Thomas Tull has been comfirmed as a Godzilla fan. The comments in the original press release plus seeing that LP comissioned and supervised the art is nothing less than a sign of good faith, especialy with the shirt's back not saying "Godzilla" but rather "Gojira". That's pretty good when you consider how the sucky 1998 film (GINO; Godzilla in name Only) went.
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Jul 28, 2010 1:45:45 PM CDT
I cant wait for the REAL Godzilla to whip this chump~!
by darfurontherocks2
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Yeah, right, a new godzilla movie,a nd it will be good, right? Right? Colour me skeptical on this bubbas! Not even the japanese are bothering making the lizzard king movies too goods anymore, so why should i believe the americans can? Specially if their closer acossiation to the godzilla franchise cames from the goofiest kid movie,s and not the more serious proper monster horror movies from the begining, like, say, the first movie. Have any of you guys seen the first Godzilla? And by that i mean, the original japanese version, not the one with Perry Manson. The original movie is not a goofy monster movie, it's a very dead serious movie that take itself very serious. Like how The Dark Knight takes Batman seriously. Same mood. Godzilla itself is not even the focus of the story, but the humans who are trying to either fight it or try to convince the government that it should not be attacked. Really, the original movie was a pretty bog eye opener to me, who had only knew of the monster from the 80s cartoons and the stupid Roland Emmerich abortion of a movie.
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"Cloverfield was a good movie that Abrahms said was a Godzilla movie told from human perspective which had never been done."This again proves what an ignorant fucking piec eof shit that Jar Jar Abrams fucking hack really is. Because of the idiot had actualyl bothered to watch any of those old Godzilla movie,s he would know that at least the first 3 movies made were told FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE HUMANS. They were movies where there were this humans who saw this bemoth of a monster called Godzilla which then in the sequels faced other monsters as big and destructive like it. It was only very later that Gofzilla started to take center stage. Again, Jar Jar Abrams proves what a fucking useless ignorant fuck he is, all full of shit, complete ignorance with marketing skills to obfuscate the audiences and sell his fake ass bulshit movies pretending to be original never seen before stuff. Fucking ass. Only fools and ignorants believe in this fucking hack.
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This art pic of the Big G looks good as long as Legendary Pictures keeps as close the how Godzilla really looks.
But what I wanna see is at least one scene in the movie where Godzilla steps on some gang-bangers. -
Just keep Michael Bay far far FAR away from this...
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...a giant mutated basilisk. That way he could stand on his hind legs and chase a speedboat across the ocean, causing massive tidal waves as he runs.
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I like you am skeptical, I would prefer that they had more of a serious/somber tone with the movie like the original (sans Perry Mason of course) Now IF Yoshimitsu Banno is INDEED the producer on this then I shall have even more faith with this project, if they can do with Gojira what they did with The Batman Franchise them there might yet be hope. Pretty sure that TOHO does not wish for a repeat of the fiasco that plagued them 12 years ago, with a TRUE Godzilla fan at the helm and Banno producing, it "could" work.
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.....in answer to your question (above) - "NO", but in an ideal world, the answer would have been "YES".
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