Here are some of Tatopoulos Studio’s design elements for the 1998 film — a film I rather like, not as a Godzilla remake but as a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, which it more closely resembles. The Beast was an inspiration for the original Gojira, of course, but the changes brought to it by Ishiro Honda and crew were crucial for the development of Godzilla as one of the 20th century’s most powerful cinematic icons — and it was these that Emmerich ignored. Still, as a giant monster movie, Godzilla (1998) was spectacular enough and Patrick Tatopoulos did a great design job on the film. I often wonder if the film would have been more successful — and more welcomed — if the idea that the monster was Godzilla had never been part of the equation.
There are more images, including some spectacular pics of a full-size animatronic head, on the Tatopoulos Studios website.
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This look beautiful. I don’t care what anyone says about the 98 on not looking like the Japanese version, it a design that Tatapoulos came up with that…well, looks a bit alien-looking and feminish. That’s how I see it since its asexual.
the film was awful because of the poor script. if the script was better and it wasnt marketed as a godzilla film then zilla and godzilla would have co stared in the 2014 film