June 17, 2010

Reason To Be Optimistic About GODZILLA 3D ?

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: The Wrap

Ever since Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros announced their plans to produce another American made “Godzilla” movie back in March, fans have been waiting quite patiently for any news about the film to surface.

And still they are waiting.

At the time of the official announcement, Legendary execs stated that word of the films director would be coming, ‘very soon’, but here we are some three months later, and still no word on that front.

Sorry.

In fact, since that initial announcement, there has been nothing coming out of the studio about “Godzilla” at all. Not even rumors.

Well, I wish I had HUGE announcement for you today, but alas, all I have is tidbit, a scrap, a mere morsel of “Godzilla” movie news, and even this is a bit of a stretch.

At the 3DNext Summit on Monday, “Godzilla” producer, Brian Rogers, spoke out about how he thought that the medium (3D), was misused in “Clash of the Titans”, stating, “’Clash of the Titans’ is important here, because it made the industry realize that you cannot do substandard 3D and charge full pricing.”

Well , like I said, not much ‘meat’ there, and I’m certain that many of you are scratching your head wondering why I even brought up this quote in the first place?

Though it has not officially been stated, it is a forgone conclusion that “Godzilla” is going to be made in 3D, and why not, all new fantasy and sci fi films are being shot that way since “Avatar”.

Now, this is why I think Rogers statement is reason for some optimism in regards to the upcoming “Godzilla” movie. Since the film is being produced by Legendary Pictures, the same folks that brought us, “Clash of the Titans”, it would appear that the film makers are taking a good hard look at the mistakes made in that prior film, in hopes of not repeating them.

Which should come as very good news to all “Godzilla” movie fans around the globe.

The echoing theme for “Godzilla” seems to be, ‘don’t make another G98’ and ‘give the fans what they want’, again more reasons for optimism.

Also, if you want to read into it, the fact that Legendary Pictures hasn’t rushed the selection process for a director, echoes these concepts. Meaning, that they are taking their time to find the right guy for the job instead of going for someone ‘trendy’ or ‘hot at the moment’, kinda like the Ryuhei Kitamura hiring at Toho for “Final Wars”.

Not that the hiring was totally wrong, just Toho had other directors in their stable that probably had a better understanding of “Godzilla” movies than Kitamura did, and who could have produced something a little more, fan-friendly, than what the action movie director produced.

And no, I’m not picking on the director. I’m just using the situation to hammer home a point about how I feel that Legendary Pictures, in all likelihood, is taking the right approach here.

There is no need to rush things, and even though “Godzilla” movie fans have been getting ulcers waiting for some news, they ultimately would rather wait, and have things done right, then have the studio rush into things and make a movie nobody likes.

Geez, for such a small bit of information, I really ran with it. Guess it just goes to show how excited we all are to see an American “Godzilla” movie, right?

Maybe in this case, no news is good news?

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