....the "last" Godzilla film

[Taro Toporific]

Today is auditions for the "last" Godzilla film!
Damn, I missed out on my boyhood dream. !?&$*@#@!
At 3pm this afternoon they are holding auditions for the "last" Godzilla movie.
Read http://www.livejournal.com/users/ozgenre/236787.html

[tetsujin gaijin]

That's O.K. It will only be the "last" godzilla film until they make another!

[Steve Bildermann]

The Monster That Morphed Into a Metaphor

New York times - possible cancer causing registration required

It's just 50 years since a 150-foot-tall prehistoric creature with a spiky back, a nasty attitude and radioactive breath rose from the sea to pulverize Tokyo. The Japanese called the beast Gojira. When it arrived on our shores it was rechristened "Godzilla, King of the Monsters," though the big fella had in fact lost a good deal of his terrifying majesty in the passage.

Film Forum in Manhattan is celebrating the anniversary of the pre-eminent movie monster of the 50's with a two-week presentation of the restored, uncut, Japanese-language version of "Godzilla" (opening on Friday). And while this might not, on the face of it, seem like one of the more urgently needed film-preservation projects, the buffed-up "Godzilla," radically different from the truncated, risibly dubbed version American audiences know, is a surprisingly compelling pop-culture artifact: a picture of the strange forms nuclear anxiety took in an era that now feels nearly as remote as the Jurassic.

[Taro Toporific]

New York times - possible cancer causing registration required

Ohhhh, my brain hurts!

[Taro Toporific]

[ a surprisingly compelling pop-culture artifact: a picture of the strange forms nuclear anxiety

How Americans Ruined 'Godzilla'
Zap2it.com - May 6, 2004
....audiences may not know is that the film about the giant lizard ravaging Tokyo has a tender triangular love story, a serious political agenda and a lot of comic relief that was emasculated by the American dubbing and re-editing .... Virtually all of the lines in the original script were ignored in the dubbing, including a poignant moment when a young woman on a train is discussing the monster and worrying about it attacking Tokyo. "After all, I survived Nagasaki," she says emphatically. A fellow commuter laughs and says, "Oh, you'll be the first to go." Not much later, the monster picks up the train and eats it.....
....An interesting look at Japan's political process was also cut short. In the scene, the professor tells the Japanese parliament his findings that Godzilla was awakened by H-bomb tests. When a pompous male senator suggests the information should be kept secret, a female senator shouts him down saying, "The truth is the truth."

[Taro Toporific]

The Monster That Morphed Into a Metaphor
New York times - possible cancer causing registration required

COLEMAN, RANDLEMAN, AND SIMS TO APPEAR IN 'GODZILLA'
Fightsport.com , Friday, May 28, 2004
...K1 / PRIDE fighters Mark Coleman, Kevin Randleman, and Wes Sims will be appearing in a new Japanese Godzilla movie.
Coleman and Randleman are said to have speaking roles, and Sims will be making a small cameo appearance.
Mark Coleman--> Kevin Randleman-->
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See the official Flash-infested "Godzilla, Final Wars" site
http://www.godzilla.co.jp/
Trailer for this is now M.I.A. at this url but... http://www.godzilla.co.jp/mov_final/index.html

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

Any FG's in Sydney may want to go and pitch a tent on the bridge or lie in between the wings of the Opera House in the next couple of days.

Sydney to feature in Godzilla flim

Sydney's most famous landmarks are expected to feature in the latest Godzilla remake with Japanese filmmakers spending the next two days filming in the harbour city.

The Japanese production by Toho Pictures Inc and its Australian production company CP International will complete shooting tomorrow.