Ahoy, squirts. Quint here with a rather... odd look at the much anticipated GODZILLA: FINAL WARS. That pic that Harry posted a few days ago was balls-out cool. This below observations from the streets of Sydney... is pretty unexpected. I never expected something like this from a Godzilla movie, but hey... the times, they are a changin'! Enjoy the below report!!!
Regicidal_Maniac here with a first hand on-set report of Ryuhei Kitamura's Godzilla Final Wars.
Godzilla: Final Wars filming on Sydney streets now and tonight. According to the very friendly crew guys and flying debris wranglers this afternoon Ryuhei Kitamura flew in to Sydney last night for a marathon 24 hour shoot and then he's flying back to Japan. They were filming the "ARRRRGGHH Gojiraaaa!!!! Run away! Run AWAYYY!!!!" scenes next to the Capitol theatre off Hay Street this afternoon and I know where they'll be filming again tonight. I'm not saying because I don't want a whole bunch of random Geeks showing up, but as I'm on my way to Cargo Bar this eve I'll definitely be dropping by the set.
Long Live The King Of The Monsters.
Link to the set picture at Club Tokyo
UPDATE:
Congrats to the at least one of you who found the second Godzilla Final Wars filming location on Kent St last night.
They were set up there all night, so I stopped by on my way to Cargo and since they were filming until 5am I also staggered by on my way back.
It was an awesome scene. They'd turned the section of Kent Street between Druitt and Marrjet Streets into a New York City street scene complete with post-boxes, a USA today newspaper dispenser and a giant NYPD towing truck and a flashy red Cadillac pimpmobile.
The scene went (something) like this:
EXT NYC Street - NIGHT.
A white COP is making the final preparations to tow a shiny red Caddy away from the tow-zone in front of a Jazz club.
A disheveled black homelessman BUM with a layers of coats and a bottle of alcohol observes the scene from his position on a dumped sofa on the street.
A black PIMP in a giant fur overcoat comes striding towards the Cop.
PIMP:
"Hey! Yo Yo Yo man, Don't touch my fuckin' car. I only been parked here for five fuckin' minutes!"
COP:
"Five fuckin' minutes, five fuckin' seconds It don't fuckin' matter either way to the NYPD."
Meanwhile the Bum on the couch has got up to have a closer look at the street theatresque confrontation.
PIMP:
"Oh yo maan, Do you know who you are fuckin' messing with?"
The Cop sizes the Pimp up and down.
COP:
"I don't know, looks like some Wesley Snipes wannabe muthafucker to me."
PIMP:
"I'm lookin' at a dead man."
Pimp starts to walk away and dramatically pulls his gun out and holds it on the Cop, sideways gangsta style.
The Cop could care less.
COP:
"Man? Now why you gotta do that for? Do you know who you're messing with? This badge says N-Y-P-D."
There were some improvised takes where the Cop puts a piece of donut on the Pimp's gun, gets his donut knocked out of his hand (looks at it forelornly on the ground, that one was my favourite) etc. Then the Bum starts chiming in with his drunken babble and momentarily distracts the Pimp giving the Cop enough time to pull out his gun and hold it two handed on the Pimp.
There's shouting between all three until the Bum starts to look up and yell.
BUM:
"ARRRGH!!! There's a BIG... Birdy-thing... Flying. A Big Flying Bird thing in the sky." Etcetera.
They tell him to shut-up or he'll get shot first until the Pimp looks up and lowers his gun and steps back.
Then the Cop turns around and looks up and steps back.
CUT end of scene.
There's probably more to that scene but I was out drinking and cavorting.
I asked one of the crew liasons to Kitamura if this was Rodan in the sky that they were pointing at and they said that it was indeed Rodan's entrance. Everyone was really friendly, on set and at Cargo, and they were surprised that there was anyone in the crowd who was interested enough to know.
I wished them well and they told me that although Kitamura flies home today they'll be continuing the shoot around town for the next week or so with second unit scenes. So I'm going to be able to see more of this kind of stuff.
Regicidal_Maniac likes men in rubber suits, nothing suss.
