{"id":7708,"date":"2010-03-29T23:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2011-03-07T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:26:53","slug":"godzilla-heading-back-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/29\/godzilla-heading-back-to-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"GODZILLA Heading Back To The US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The King of the Monsters is heading back to the big screen, and for the first time in over a decade he’s going to be stomping on cities courtesy of an American movie studio.<\/p>\n

Legendary Pictures has secured the rights to develop and produce a new feature film starring Toho Pictures’s biggest star Godzilla. Warner Brothers is set to co-finance, co-produce and distribute the film, which all parties hope will be in theaters for 2012. Outside of a few producers attached to the film to represent the various studios involved no creative personnel have been announced as attached to the project.<\/p>\n

Previously, Godzilla<\/strong> stormed US shores in Sony’s 1998 eponymously-named film from disaster maestros Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. While it isn’t a bad monster movie per se<\/em>, it wasn’t a good Godzilla<\/strong> film. The design of the monster deviated a bit too far from tradition for many of the monster’s fans. On a more thematic note, there was no sense that Devlin and Emmerich really understood the allegorical nature of Godzilla or tried to bring that to the big screen, opting instead for a rather empty roller-coaster ride. And finally, there was no radioactive fire breath. Seriously, why even do a Godzilla<\/strong> film if you’re going to leave that out?<\/p>\n

The Japanese didn’t think too much of the Americanization of Godzilla either. In 2001’s Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack<\/strong> there was a sly slam against the movie. In response to the news about a possible attack by Godzilla on the United States, a soldier comments, “The Americans said it was Godzilla, but all the Japanese scientists denied it.” Still, feelings about that version of the monster must have mellowed a bit across the Pacific by 2004 enough to allow a version of the monster to appear in Godzilla: Final Wars<\/strong>, even if he does get beaten down by the true Godzilla fairly quickly..<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Before the Devlin and Emmerich version reached the screens, a few other attempts at Americanizing Godzilla<\/strong> had been made. Cashing in on the 3d revival of the early `80s,\u00a0 a version came close to going into production (See storyboard panel at right) before the project fell apart. Before Devlin and Emmerich came on at Sony, Speed<\/strong> director Jan de Bont was developing a version with future Pirates Of The Caribbean<\/strong> scripters Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio.<\/p>\n

Via The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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