Godzilla 2012 - A Plot Idea That, I Think, Will Make Everyone Happy

Written By: Ken Hulsey

Ever since it was announced two weeks ago, that Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros are going to produce an American made "Godzilla" movie, everyone and their dog has rushed to message boards, and if they have the means, posted Internet articles on what they believe the film should contain and be about.

I have sat back and let everyone go to town with their own ideas about how the American film makers should approach the iconic character, Godzilla, and the film's potential plot.

After reading a ton of these, I decided that it was about time for me to throw my two cents into the pot and reveal my own ideas about the film.

Granted, I agree with most of the fans in saying that the film should be dark, serious and not a typical CGI mess, like "Transformers." Yet, unlike many, I don't think that the "Godzilla" franchise needs to be restarted, again, like most of the 2000 series Japanese Godzilla films did, over and over again. I also don't think that this new film needs to be a direct sequel to the original 1954 "Gojira" or a remake of that film.

I propose something completely different, something that not too many fans have touched on. Just simply continue on with the Japanese movie series, but move the action from Japan to the US.

Okay, I already hear some grumbling, just hear me out. I believe that there is a way to continue the film series on from where "Godzilla × Mothra × Mechagodzilla: Tokyo S.O.S." left off.

Here is my idea for the story:

After the battle between the Japanese built MechaGodzilla and Mothra, Godzilla's still cocooned, and unconscious, body sinks towards the bottom of the ocean, where it begins to slowly be pulled by underwater currents, eastward towards the mainland of the United States.

Flash forward to 2012.

A nuclear sub accident in the Pacific gives Godzilla the jolt of radiation he needs to awaken and regenerate. The last thing Godzilla remembers is the events from Tokyo SOS. Confused and angry the monster swims off towards what he thinks is Japan, but is actually the US west coast.

Godzilla swims into a bay that seems familiar, but isn't, instead of Tokyo bay, it's San Francisco bay.

The confused, wild and angry Godzilla comes ashore to the surprise and disbelief of terrified townspeople.

The military is caught off guard and though they mobilize an immediate show of force. They don't have anything to deal with this kind of attack. After all, Godzilla, and other monsters, have always been Japan's problem.

After leveling a good deal of the city, the monster returns to the bay.

The US government contacts Japan to see if they can use the MechaGodzilla, but are informed that it is lost and can not be recovered.

The government then asks for the plans to the MechaGodzilla, so that they can hurriedly build their own. Again the Japanese balk, and refuse to give away any info on their top-secret machine.

Also, the Japanese don't want the Americans to know that they have been secretly trying to clone Godzilla, and are very close to doing just that. It is their hope that their genetically engineered monster will be able to protect the country from any future monster attacks.

This should be hinted at, or eluded to, somewhere in the story.

The US military then turn to a group of Japanese soldiers who have worked with the Japanese on their MechaGodzilla project for help.

Akane Yashiro (Yumiko Shaku) and her team have been training in the US since 2004 and are willing to help the US forces against the monster.

Meanwhile Godzilla is still in San Francisco bay waiting to attack the city again.

Yashiro's team helps the American military come up with a plan to drive the monster away.

Over the past several decades, Japan has been attacked by may monsters, and many of them are still alive, and in hiding somewhere in the Pacific region.

Yashiro and her team, have been developing a system to locate these monsters, and a biological agent that can temporally immobilize them, for potential transport. Unfortunately, this agent will have no effect on Godzilla, due to his regenerative cells.

Godzilla decides to finish off San Francisco and rises out of the bay. The monster levels what is left of San Fran, before the plan to get rid of the monster can be hurriedly put into action.

The US government, with the help of Yashiro's team, are able to locate another monster. Maybe Anguirus or Rodan. They capture the monster, and at the end of the film it is brought in to drive Godzilla away. If Anguirus is used then it could be a tribute to "Godzilla Raids Again" and an aside to the American "Volcano Monsters" film that was never made.

Will it work, or will another American city suffer the fate of San Francisco?

Of course, there will have to be American characters with American actors inserted into the story. There will also have to be side stories about the San Fransisco residents developed to fit in around all the destruction, and possibly some kind of a love story.......but, not a cheesy one. I don't want this thing to develop into a romantic comedy.

Maybe a love triangle between a military officer, his San Francisco newspaper reporter girlfriend and Akane......heck I don't know, but something to give the film a human element to possibly draw in non Godzilla fans.

After the events of this film, Godzilla could return to Japan just in time for a Japanese G film in 2014.

Since the monster is now familiar with the US, he could venture back for a sequel.

There, like it or not, an American "Godzilla" movie that ties in with the Japanese film series, yet is Americanised enough to work for Hollywood.

I know it's crazy, and doesn't have a bat's chance in hell of being done, but at least I got a chance to throw it out there.