The latest news about the monsters inspired by Kong and popularized by Godzilla, Gamera, and Mothra.
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| (Click to enlarge) One of many cocktails based on Pacific Rim |
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| (Click to enlarge) The Jaeger |
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| (Click to enlarge) Gipsy Danger |
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| (Click to enlarge) The Cherno Alpha |
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| (Click to enlarge) The Coyote Tango |
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| (Click to enlarge) The Crimson Typhoon |
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| (Click to enlarge) The Shatterdome |
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| (Click to enlarge) The Striker Eureka |
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| (Click to enlarge) the Drift |
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| Chan Takashi's King Ghidorah sculpt from above. |
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| Godzilla 60th anniversary logo and website at Godzilla.jp |
E= Will make jets fly over headJump to Godzilla.jp to play around this interactive site. Below is a sample video of the game play.
M = Will call Mothra
K = Will call King Ghidora
G = Well...make sure you have the sound on when you press this.
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| "Start Screen" for a fictional 8-bit Pacific Rim |
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| For the price of $2000 you can have lunch with Max Borenstein |
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| How does Godzilla's atomic breath work |
Shock: The film is said to be more grounded and “real” so how to you plausibly handle his creation, his atomic breath and other elements?
Edwards: It was important to me to make it as believable as possible and with all of those elements you’ve mentioned, they’re in the film but I tried to put them in the film where they’re not so fantastical that you don’t believe it. Hopefully, the only big buy the audience has to make – and I believe there can only be one buy – is that giant creatures can exist. Beyond that, we try to make it as realistic as possible. Throughout the franchise, there’s consistently been these elements related to Godzilla and they’re in this film, but it was about making it feel natural in our film. I can’t go into much more details. There is a nuclear element in the movie.
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| Haruo Nakajima taking a break outside the Godzilla suit |
FEAR FESTEviL is pleased to welcome legendary monster suit actor HARUO NAKAJIMA! Mr. Nakajima is known the world over for having portrayed the screen’s most famous monster, GODZILLA‐‐a role which he pioneered throughout the first 12 films of Toho’s long‐running science fiction series.
It was following the performance of a dangerous stunt as a fighter pilot in Ishiro Honda’s “Eagle of the Pacific” (1953) that Nakajima was recommended to play Godzilla in the original 1954 film, since donning the heavy costume beneath sweltering studio lights required an unusual amount of strength and endurance.
Special effects master Eiji Tsuburaya was so impressed by Nakajima’s skill as a stunt performer and choreographer that he featured the actor in nearly every science fiction, horror and fantasy film produced throughout his own illustrious career. In addition to Godzilla, Nakajima would also embody an unprecedented number of notable movie monsters including Rodan (1956), Mogera in The Mysterians (1957), Varan the Unbelievable (1958), Mothra (1960), Matango (1963), Baragon in Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965), Gaira in War of the Gargantuas (1966) and even King Kong in King Kong Escapes (1967).
His impressive body of film work also includes appearances in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai (1954) and The Hidden Fortress (1958). In 1966, Tsuburaya once again tapped Nakajima’s talents when the effects director first brought his monsters to television in the ground‐breaking series Ultra Q and Ultraman.
Nakajima finally retired as the reigning Champion of monster suit actors with 1972’s Godzilla vs. Gigan. Beginning in 1996, Nakajima made guest appearances at various sci‐fi & horror conventions throughout the United States, Japan, and most recently Germany, where thousands of adoring fans have flocked to meet him.
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| legendary Ultraman suit actor Satoshi “Bin” Furuya |
Joining us next on the guest list is Satoshi “Bin” Furuya! Furuya portrayed one of the world’s most enduring superheroes in the 1966 sci-fi action television series “Ultraman” from Tsuburaya Productions. In 39 half-hour episodes, audiences thrilled to the enormous red and silver alien’s battles with large monsters in the imaginative program that spawned dozens of sequels. Those sequels continue to this day on both the small and big screens.FEAR FESTEviL Is slates for Feb 6-8, 2014 at The Regency Ballroom in S.F. California. You can get all the details at the official website www.FearFestEvil.com. Plus you can watch the promotional video below.
No stranger to acting outside of a costume, Furuya had a regular role as Ultra Guard Agent Amagi in all 49 episodes of the extremely popular serie “Ultra Seven” (1967). Though he retired from acting during the 1970s, he has made appearances in several genre films as recently as 2008, when he appeared in the 2008 kaiju comedy “The Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit”.
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| 3 More M.U.T.O. Videos, unfortunately they look like the above. |
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| The completed sculpture of the Godzilla 2014 reboot |
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| The final Godzilla 2014 sculpt is amazingly close to the preliminary sketch |
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| The initial sketch for the Godzilla 2014 sculpture |
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| Chan Takashi's first Godzilla Sculpt from November |
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| Chan Takashi actually uses disposable chopsticks as scaffolding |
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| Japan released slightly different versions of the new Godzilla reboot |
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| Ken Watanabe from the Godzilla 2014 Official Teaser Trailer |
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| The HALO jump into the heart of destruction is the first scene in the Godzilla 2014 trailer |
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| Ouch! (Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures) |
It's Godzilla's name on the marquee, yet Edwards didn't want to humanize him or give him too much personality.
"To me, he's like a force of nature, like the wrath of God or vengeance for the way we've behaved," Edwards says. "If this really happened, it would be like Sept. 11.
"I want it to be epic. I want to get the hairs on the back of your neck up."
Coming from Monsters, in which he designed — as cost-efficiently as possible — a quasi-futuristic setting of alien creatures taking over Mexico, Edwards is reveling in the big-budget filmmaking that Godzilla offers him.
"It's the closest thing to being a god as I think there is in terms of a job you could have," he says. "You picture something one day and draw it, and the next day, it's physical and there in front of you no matter how insane."
In addition to the original movie, the Monsterland conceit of the 1968 Godzilla flick Destroy All Monsters also plays into Edwards' film, with its exploration of mankind having to deal with a reality full of huge, deadly behemoths — the director teases that there is more than just Godzilla smashing around.
"I've just got a secret fantasy — well, it's not very secret anymore — about living in a world where there's fantastical things like giant creatures and what it would really be like and trying to take it seriously," he says.
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| Screenshot of MUTOresearch.net |
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| I got caught "hacking" into the MUTOresearch.net |
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| Hack into MUTOresearch.net (click to enlarge). |
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| Godzilla is on call for the crew of the Calico in the original Animated series. |
"The Time Dragons" (December 2, 1978): The team and Godzilla are, strangely, teleported back to prehistoric times. They must find their way back to the present time without disrupting the past.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(animated_series))
The Calico faces certain destruction when it gets warped in time all the way back to prehistory. They meet a tribe of cavemen but are confronted with a T-Rex and they have to scramble to figure out what to do. A little bit of luck gets them back to the present. Can Godzilla save the day? (http://www.tv.com/shows/godzilla-the-original-animated-series/the-time-dragons-2364130/)
Stalking the forests of his tropical home, the massive dinosaur soon came across the Calico crew while they tried to return to the ship. The monster intercepted them and crushed the Godzilla signaler, but luckily Godzooky was there to call him manually. The nuclear leviathan rose from the sea to fight again, and as the two battled, their massive feet unearthed a pool of glowing uranium ore.
Not knowing of the substance's properties, Godzilla picked up the mud-like substance and was instantly transported back to his own age, leaving the Calico to defend for themselves. Once again, however, the group was saved, but this time by the native cave tribe. Dr. Quinn shouted out, telling the group to use the gray mud on them and the dinosaur.
When the Time Dragon was hit, he, the Calico, and its crew were transported back to the modern age, but now the same satellite that had initially sent them back was about to hit Godzilla again. Knowing of what happened, Godzilla took a deep breath and blew as hard as he could. The hurricane-like wind blast sent the satellite into the hands of the dinosaur, in turn sending him back to his own prehistoric world. (http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Dragon)
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| CNN Tokyo Reports on the death of Godzilla |
Godzilla breathes his lastSRC: CNN:Godzilla breathes his last fiery breath... for now
fiery breath... for now
December 1, 1995
Web posted at: 8:50 p.m. EST
From Correspondent May Lee
TOKYO (CNN) -- He needs no introduction
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His glaring eyes and gnashing teeth, not to mention his habit of destroying everything in sight, has made the overgrown lizard a superstar. However, in his 22nd film, "Godzilla vs. The Destroyer," to be released December 9 in Japan, the 42-year-old monster will finally meet his end -- Godzilla will die.
Destroyer
The film's directors promise the final scene will be unforgettable. "Godzilla died once before in the first movie in 1954," said the new film's special effects director, Kouichi Kawakita. "So this last film incorporates the image of the first death."
What was the cause of Godzilla's first demise four decades ago? The Destroyer, a weapon that zaps oxygen (remember, Godzilla is a nuclear monster)
Now, in this final installment, the Destroyer will be to blame again, but this time it will come to life in the form of an indestructible monster.
Kawakita painstakingly guided his team of designers and technicians to create the sci-fi world of Godzilla. Although technological advances such as computers and robots have given the Godzilla films more realism over the years, the simple monster suit hasn't been outgrown.
All it takes are the right moves and a few visual and audio enhancements and -- presto -- Godzilla is out flattening entire cities once again. With just a few giant steps, Hong Kong and Tokyo fall victim to his violent temper in the latest film.
Bringing the Godzilla series full circle involved using the same human characters as well as the sometimes more famous creatures.
Director Takao Okawara starred in the first film and plays the same character in "Godzilla vs. The Destroyer." There is a serious and very real side to this final chapter, he says: "That is, the nuclear threat that still plagues the modern world. In this last movie I want people to look at the death of Godzilla knowing that he was created by nuclear power and the most selfish existence in the world -- mankind."
With the strong anti-nuclear message, Godzilla will bid farewell to the silver screen in Japan, but don't be surprised if he shows up in the Western world sometime soon. Tri-Star, a U.S. film company, has bought the rights to make one Godzilla movie, which is expected to come out some time in 1997.
Okawara
Japanese creators have no qualms about the deal. "Personally, I am looking forward to seeing Godzilla in the U.S.," Okawara said. "I'm a Godzilla fan so I want to see the American Godzilla movie."
And why not? It's about time that the ferocious fire-breathing monster picked on someone else for a while.
