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REALLLLY?????
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831387/ <---2014!!!
AWESOME!!
Looking Ahead: Godzilla 2014—Fears and Hopes
Making a movie about a pop-culture icon is always tricky business. On one hand, you have the diehard fans to appease. In this case, the majority of those fans are between the ages of 35 and 45—basically the same group of mostly men who have witnessed the brutal pillaging of their childhoods through movies like Transformers, Smurfs, Land of the Lost, G.I. Joe and most recently, and strangely, Battleship. While some of these movies have tanked, others have been financial giants, but few have pleased the original fan base.
On the other hand, studios must entertain youngsters, ages 4–12, whose parents bring them to these movies. I have recently been to see The Avengers, Snow White and the Huntsman, Men in Black III and Battleship. I would not consider these PG-13 flicks kids movies, but I saw kids, perhaps as young as three at each and every one of them. I personally think the parents who bring their children to these films need therapy—their children will—but they are there anyway. And the studios know it, so we end up with dwarfs making poop jokes and giant robots dangling prodigious testicles—humor that’s more appropriate for a (bad) Adam Sandler movie.
On the third, alien hand (perhaps a tentacle), is the group in the middle: teens and young adults who want the same thrills and dark themes as the older generations, but aren’t bothered by potty humor and maybe even find it funny. However, they have no preconceived notions of what the story and characters should or should not look, act, or sound like.
more...http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/looking-ahead-godzilla-2014-fears-and-hopes
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I love what the director Gareth Edwards has already said about the project. I think he actually get's it. I liked the film 'Monsters.' Check it out if you haven't already seen it.
Here's a still and the roar from the San Diego Comic Con teaser trailer, along with the description of someone who was there.
"Teaser: you see a devistated city and something huge lying on the ground dead, looks like arms or tenticles on it, lots of smoke so hard to see clear. Then you hear the huge Godzilla roar, the camera pans up & across Godzilla's famous scales/fins to his face and he roars again! That's when my shit was lost! Everyone was taken by surprise at the footage because it wasn't announced, just the roar thru the speakers. BEST COMICON GEEK MOMENT EVER! BIG G IS BACK!" ~ TheMothman001
And here's some concept art from the studio
Yes, I am excited. I am a son of Godzilla.
It was the G-Head zombie Godzilla, but for some reason I didn't browse his galley.
Excellent digital work and this one is just insane!
I love it!
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Imagine the wonderful screenplays gathering dust because spineless studio executives haven't the courage to try something new. This is just another iteration of a long line (Superman, Spiderman, Batman) of tried and true formulas.
I'm thinking of all the money I'm saving by not having to see the same old thing over and over.
