Godzilla to be Americanized again?

The great Godzilla, or Gojira if you’re cool, as been remade once before in 1998 by Roland Emmerich (2012), and that was considered a disaster by everyone. “Word on the street” is that Legendary Pictures, the production studio behind Watchmen and The Dark Knight is keen on another attempt at an American Godzilla film.

This is all currently just a rumor. I love all things Godzilla, but we have experienced two American version already: Godzilla: King of the Monsters in 1956 and of course, the Matthew Broderick starring Godzilla (1998). Plus, for all intent and purposes, Cloverfield was a Godzilla-like film. If this is true, and that’s a big if, maybe whoever is the writer and/or director needs to look at what made the original Japanese Gojira (Godzilla) work: subtext and themes. If I remember correctly, Toho Studios said after the Emmerich blockbuster flop, they wouldn’t allow anyone else to take Godzilla again, and in Godzilla: Final Wars (currently the last Godzilla film), the original Gojira kicked the crap out of ‘Zilla (from the US 1998 film).

For fans of the original, look for the Classic Media release of Gojira on Blu Ray this September, and keep it here for further developments on this.

Source: /Film