Godzilla vs. GINO (Godzilla In Name Only) Confirmed!

[Khephra]

Shortly after Tri-Star unleashed the cinematic catastrophe that was Roland Emmerich & Dean Devlin's Americanized Godzilla, angry fans of the Big G took to dubbing the movie and it's radically redesigned monster GINO (Godzilla In Name Only). The backlash against the movie was so severe that it even trickled over to the mainstream, especially after the film underperformed at the box office after nearly a year of being hyped to death. Despite managing to squeak out a small profit the movie has still taken its place alongside such other films as Batman & Robin, Battlefield Earth, and Howard The Duck as a prime example of Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking at its very worst. What was designed to launch a potential cashcow franchise for Sony died an agonizing death and nobody in their right mind ever thought they'd be seeing their version of the King of the Monsters on the big screen ever again. Well, guess what? This December, GINO returns and take one guess who's gonna finish him off once and for all?


The ultimate battle between the King of the Monsters and the pretender to the throne is going to take place in Godzilla: Final Wars, the 50th Anniversary Godzilla movie - the one Toho vows will be the "final" Godzilla movie at least for a decade. The film pits the iconic monster against alien invaders out to conquer Earth through the use of a horde of other well known past Godzilla foes plus one wild card – the Tri-Star Godzilla. Strangely enough, the battle between the two zillas will take place on neutral territory - Sydney, Australia.

What sounded like a loony rumor going around the Godzilla fandom community just 48 hours ago has proved true as Toho producer Shogo Tomiyama and GFW director Ryuhei (Versus, Azumi) Kitamura revealed details the other day on this surprise turn of events.

http://www.creature-corner.com/news4/aug27zilla.php3

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. Godzilla: Final Wars is going to be awesome :)

It's rumored too to get a big release here in the States. I hope it does.

[Khephra]

2. It's too bad that Monster X isn't going to be Gamera

But I'll be happy to see GINO torn up as well.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. There are other rumors that this won't be the last for a decade

Yoshimitsu Bano, director of Godzilla vs. Hedora (The Smog Monster) recently said he was in pre production for a new Godzilla vs. Hedora film.

http://www.monsterzero.us/editorials/editorials.php?catID=&subCatID=15&contentID=513

Since Toho now owns Daiei I wouldn't be surprised to see the Big G and the other Big G facing off. I would get Shosuke Kaneko who directed the Hesei Gamera films and Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidora: All out Attack and put the Godzilla powered by the souls of Japanese war dead against the Guardian from Mu. Work in Rodan versus the Gaos, and Legion vs Megeguiras too.

Now that's a monster movie!

[Khephra]

4. I'm glad that Ryuhei is getting to do one

I've been a fan of his film "Versus" for some time now.

Yeah, I have a feeling they won't be able to keep from making more films before the 10 year period is over. Hedora is one of my favorites, so you won't hear me complaining.

[BigMcLargehuge]

5. the cool thing is, it's supposed to be in 3D and shot for IMAX

so blobs of toxic spooge will leap out of the giant domed screen!

Hedora is one of my favorites too. It's a shame that Banno was essentially blackballed after making Godzilla fly in that film, which according to him wasn't entirely his fault as Tomyama was in the hospital and didn't respond to his "do we make him fly or not" question.

Banno was certainly vastly superior to Jun Fukuda who directed the other late entries in the Showa series.