Godzilla Resurgence (2016)

[Henry88]

Ed G. interview from last month

http://www.tohokingdom.com/interviews/ed_godziszewski_01-2016.html

... and the rather interesting  bit about Godzilla Resurgence:

My overwhelming impression of these two guys as a team comes from the wonderful exhibition that was held in Japan a couple years ago to celebrate Japanese style special effects. They curated an exhibit of suits, props, design artwork, etc. that showed off the craftsmanship of Japanese special effects artists and the technique of miniature special effects. And to top it off, they made a short film titled Warrior God Appears Over Tokyo to celebrate miniature effects and show how thoroughly relevant they can be even today. The film contains 100% practical effects aside from the animated rays, and it looks astounding, as good or better than anything done with CG and budgets that are orders of magnitude higher. So with that in mind, I was excited to hear they were assigned to Godzilla-surely they would take their work on the short film to the feature level and show the world that traditional Japanese effects can make a feature that holds it own against the big Hollywood effects houses. As a result, it's a bit disheartening to hear that their new Godzilla is just the opposite, being done almost exclusively with CG and with very little model work. This was the last thing I expected. Of course I remain hopeful that it will be well made and entertaining, but I never expected that these leading proponents of traditional techniques would abandon them so shortly after their triumph at the SFX Exhibition. Perhaps it is the dictate of the studio, but for whatever the reason, it feels like this may signal the end of the techniques that brought so many of us to embrace Japanese films. And that is kind of sad to me.

[Darth Geek]

That sucks, I was hoping this would be a man-in-suit type Godzilla movie. Is the model work just that expensive now that it's cheaper or the same to do all that building destruction CGI?

[Henry88]

http://shin-godzilla.jp/images/mainvisual.jpg

one of the news sites has said this is some sort of "Godzilla vs. Eva" cross-promotional thing tying into the beginning of Godzilla Resurgence ticket pre-sales on April 23!

[Darth Geek]

http://shin-godzilla.jp/images/mainvisual.jpg

Uh...what the hell am I looking at?

[Johnny Unusual]

Godzilla and EVA 01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion

[Henry88]

[BiteMe316]

*Insert megafangasm here* 

WANT TO SEE NOW!!!!! Just give me English subs and I'll be good to go!!!!!

[ManUnderMask]

It's about time, Toho. Damn.

[Henry88]

Spoiler

the godzilla from hell

[Darth Geek]

Although the last time he had red markings like that, he died at the end and it was really sad.

[Henry88]

from a monster news site Gormaru Island

[BiteMe316]

from a monster news site Gormaru Island

Well, that sucks.  Hopefully, they'll include the original version.   

[Henry88]

So...this is could legitimately be a spoiler for some people, so click at your own peril...it concerns Godzilla's potential origin and maybe a little more than that

During a conversation about why the end of Godzilla's tail appears to have skeletons embedded in it, Bob Eggleton stated that Godzilla is absorbing lifeforms in this movie. I'm not sure what to make of the idea - it's certainly a new twist on Godzilla's regeneration, but not necessarily an idea I like. It does, however, seem like an idea straight out of Anno and Higuchi's wheelhouse. Make of it what you will.


There's several pics floating around Facebook and Twitter at this point, but this one is pretty good -



And this one shows Godzilla's fifth toe...we kinda saw that in one of the first posters. Foot Wars 2016? It doesn't bug me a bit, really.

[BiteMe316]

No! Wrong!  Do it again!!  Arms are too short, and the head just looks weird. 

[Henry88]

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2016/06/13/godzilla-resurgence-exclusive-high-res-photos-from-toho/