HEY FOLKS, HARRY HERE. I just got in from Chi-town and doing my fourth stint with the ol Ebert guy. The first thing I came home to read was this story. Well, as is usual with GODZILLA/CENTROPOLIS news, I went to go email Dean Devlin to get his opinion on things, BUT.... He had already emailed me. (Father Geek doesn't have access to that email address) Well, Devlin says that everything below is complete and utter bullshit, my words not his, here's Dean....
"Everything about the article is untrue. While, yes, we are developing the sequel to Godzilla, none of what was written is even close to the truth. We're all very excited about the recent success of GODZILLA:MILLINEUM with the classic Godzilla and we can't wait to get our sequel to GODZILLA 98 out in theaters. Now I know I'm just setting myself up for the numerous "slam Devlin/Emmerich" posts that will follow this, but that's what makes your site so great."----Dean Devlin
So, there ya have it. Now go be predictable and flame away. Harry....
Well, here we go again... FATHER GEEK found this report today... So the Big Guy was an imposter last time... Tell me something I didn't know... Well here's the lowdown out of Sony's Art Department... This talkback should be fun...
I work in the art dept at Sony...I don't want to give too many hints of where/when/how I work there, but I've seen alot of stuff & I'm reporting this to you, because well... I hate what they're doing with it.
Apparently work has started on Godzilla2, or Godzilla's Revenge as some of us are calling it. Some in-house creature design is being done here at Sony (not Centropolis). Dean & Roland were here a few weeks ago, and they're having us design a new Godzilla. Well, more like the REAL Godzilla. The bits of the story as was explained to us has the Godzilla who died in the first movie turning out not to be the real Godzilla, and the only reason he was called Godzilla was because the media picked up on the name. In actuality, the real Godzilla is still in Tokyo, in hibernation in a volcano. Only experts from Japan were able to reveal that the Godzilla that died on the brooklyn bridge was an imposter. The U.S. government gets their hands on an egg that survived the Madison Square Garden fire thing from the last movie, and they start cloning the beasts ala Jurassic Park. The Japanese government gets pissed and declares the eggs/clones genetic property of Japan, & the U.S. in order to avoid a war, ships the babyzillas to Tokyo.
Soon a transport ship crashes during a heavy storm, causing hundreds of babyzillas to spread to Tokyo's shores. Once the monsters feed off of powerlines, they begin to grow to tremendous sizes, destroying everything in their path. A bunch of little league kids visiting Tokyo from the states (Roland wants Jake Lloyd as a star little league player) stumble upon the volcano where the real Godzilla is sleeping. They bring him to life somehow, and Godzilla procedes to save Tokyo from the monsters.
There is a mad scientist character that supposedly thinks Godzilla is actually a human altered from the Hiroshima blast. So this guy builds a translator to communicate with Godzilla and talk to him. Apparently, they think the last movie didn't do so well because people couldn't relate to Godzilla as a character, not just because he looked little like the classic Godzilla. Mathew Broderik will not be back, but they want Jean Reno to reprise his role, this time hunting down the monsters as Godzilla's friend. I heard them jokingly mention Will Smith as the voice we'd hear when Godzilla talks, but they were seriously considering using a woman's voice, some famous opera singer.
I'll try to get some images to you in the coming weeks..
Call me Al Powel.
