Written By: Ken HulseySources: Numerous...and growing!
If you may recall, I mentioned on Monday that Robert Hood over on the Undead Backbrain website had posted a bunch of photos of potential "Godzilla 2012" designs that have been making their way around various websites and message boards.
Well, today several main-stream sites have zeroed in on two of them. Most notably the ones that have been rumored to be of a prototype design that Legendary Pictures, supposedly, sent to Toho for approval.
I have one of the pics above.
As I mentioned on Monday, these images first appeared on the Godzilla 2012 Facebook Group way back in late March and on Flicker before that.
According to many reports this was the message that accompanied these photos on the photo sharing site: “I was told by a good friend in the movie biz that this was one of the designs they were considering for the new 3D Godzilla!”
Well, there are a lot of things in that statement that pretty much rule out this being a genuine "Godzilla 2012" prototype.
One, any statement that starts out, "I was told by a good friend in the movie biz.......", should be taken with a huge amount of salt.
Second, and this is assuming this is legit, the statement points out that these were, 'one of the designs they were considering..', which means there are others.
So, what are the odds of this being the being the Godzilla we will see on the big screen in 2012? Slim to none at best.
Though many of my counterparts in the media seem to think that this is good design for a new American Godzilla, I disagree.....strongly.
I'll make this brief.....It's simply not Godzilla. I equate it to a different studio, other than Disney, making a modern "Mickey Mouse" cartoon that features the iconic character redesigned to look more like a 'real' mouse.
Would that fly?
Of course not, and the idea of redesigning Godzilla to look more like a dragon or dinosaur won't either.
It's "GINO 98" all over again.
Here is a list of sites talking about these rumored "Godzilla 2012" designs:
ShockTillYouDrop.com
Collider.com
MovieWeb
Dread Central
WorstPreviews.com
Oh, and here's an outside review of the new "Gamera: The Giant Monster" DVD:
Gamera The Giant Monster
Exclaim! - Noriaki Yuasa
The Japanese monster films of the '50s, '60s and '70s are said to have "cheesy" special effects, but that dismissive tag is a little too easy. Sure, we can all plainly see that Godzilla looks less like a 200-foot tall monster than a stuntman in a rubber suit, but is this really a bad thing? In an age when digital effects march ever closer towards photorealism, it's sort of charming to see these rubber monsters traipsing through model cities, knocking over hollow cardboard skyscrapers and moving with speed and agility quite uncommon amongst creatures weighing 20,000 tons. These images are so deeply and powerfully strange that they can become genuinely otherworldly. This brings us to Gamera (a giant flying turtle/"friend of all children"), who was Godzilla's chief rival at the Japanese box office, but who was always a little less slick in every way. His face was virtually immobile; his mouth opened and shut like a barn door; and his giant, painted eyes never seemed to blink. To see such a transparently fake creature stomp all over such a transparently fake city, and to see the human actors react with such grave sincerity, is a sublime kind of surrealism.
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