Godzilla (2014)

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March 29, 2010 - Legendary Pictures announced today they are ready to start developing a new movie based on the legendary Toho Studios monster Godzilla, having acquired the rights to the character Toho created over fifty years ago in the 1954 film, which has since become a genre classic. Legendary is producing the movie through their deal with Warner Bros. with hopes to announce a director soon to helm the movie with the intention of having it ready for a 2012 release.

The official press release from Legendary includes quotes from the three key players in the deal.

Thomas Tull, Chairman and CEO of Legendary:

"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. 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."

Hideyuki Takai, President of Toho Co., Ltd.:

"Godzilla is a signature Japanese character which we have nurtured over the years. It is a great honor to reach an agreement with Legendary Pictures, the parent to many a blockbuster film, and we are delighted in rebooting the character together to realize its much anticipated return by fans from all over the world. We are anxious to find out where Godzilla's new stomping will take us."

Jeff Robinov, President, 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. We have enjoyed a great deal of success together to date and this newest opportunity represents yet another chance for us to collaborate on a property that is very clearly in their wheelhouse."

Toho has kept Godzilla alive through two generations of movies, many of which were only released in Japan. The last time Godzilla arrived on these shores, it was for a 50th Anniversary re-release of the original movie. Before that, Toho released one of the Japanese films in the United States as Godzilla 2000, and in 1998, director Roland Emmerich and his partner Dean Devlin tackled a reinvention of Godzilla for Sony, a summer blockbuster that grossed $379 million worldwide despite generally tepid reviews and disfavor from the long-time fans of the character.

quote The Living Angelus

quote longview01

You guys ruined Godzilla once and you want to do it again?

Wrong. Different studio, different people involved last time. This could be quite good, especially behind Legendary Pictures. The same production company responsible with bringing up Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, 300 and more from the last 5 years.

quote longview01

I was talking about you guys as in Americans, and yes this film will be another crap hollywood Godzilla film

quote The Living Angelus

quote longview01

I was talking about you guys as in Americans, and yes this film will be another crap hollywood Godzilla film

What does America have anything to do with movies? You're condemning a nation for a shitty Summer popcorn blockbuster (and yes it was a blockbuster making almost $400 Million worldwide, so even some of you pompous Brits saw the movie). As if Americans single-handedly ruined a franchise to begin with, that being a franchise famous for men in rubber suits destroying miniature buildings and props only to evolve into using even shittier CGI.

Nor what does one studio's futile attempt at westernizing a series have to do with another studio wanting to reboot it over 10 years later? That's like condemning Warner Bros for wanting to reboot Batman after that fiasco that was "Batman & Robin" and deciding it's not even worth the attempt to make Batman Begins (or The Dark Knight).

Sometimes people say the stupidest shit on these boards. Think before posting.

quote Darknet

quote longview01

You guys ruined Godzilla once and you want to do it again?

I liked the last Godzilla movie, tbh.