THE KING OF THE MONSTERS IS BACK!
Get ready to rumble on June 29 – July 2 when Exhumed Films and the Mahoning Drive-In present GODZILLA-PALOOZA RAIDS AGAIN!
THE KING OF THE MONSTERS IS BACK!
Get ready to rumble on June 29 – July 2 when Exhumed Films and the Mahoning Drive-In present GODZILLA-PALOOZA RAIDS AGAIN!
IDW, under license by Toho International, Inc., turns back the hands of time with the upcoming comic book miniseries Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons. Written by Frank Tieri and illustrated by Inaki Miranda, the creative team behind the DC Comics’ Old Lady Harley series, this five-part epic, beginning in June, takes readers back to an era of seafaring and superstition for a Godzilla adventure like no other.
Between Anno and Higuchi, we get a film that straddles the line between political drama and a believable more grounded disaster film. It’s a mix that shouldn’t work but does.
Around the time, Tomoyuki Tanaka had decided to take a step back as the head producer of Godzilla films, and formally retired from it with this movie before the filming began. He would appoint his protégé Shogo Tomiyama to take over his role, to which Tomiyama took quite seriously with how much of a role he had to live up to while also having his own benchmark on it.
“It’s therapeutic to put those emotions into a shot, and a fun challenge to pull those more complex emotions out of big angry lizards.”
GKOTM gets a lot of flak for some bad one-liners and questionable references. But when we step back and look at the whole picture, it’s intensely aware of the journey that Godzilla and other kaiju took from the ‘50s to the ‘70s from being the embodiments of environmental destruction to the avengers of the despoiled Earth.
Fans were into this film for the pure entertainment spectacle, and it showed. US Fans wanted monster action like Megalon, and that has become evident even 50 years after its original Japanese release, showcased by fans’ feedback to the Hollywood incarnation of the MonsterVerse, spearheaded by Legendary Pictures.
“Congratulations Christopher, you are now booked to work on GODZILLA 2!!!”
Graham Skipper, author of Godzilla: The Official Guide to the King of the Monsters speaks with Kaiju United about his new book, and shared love of all things Godzilla.