Category Archives: Godzilla

G’94 Rising!

All hell’s about to break loose! Click to get the full effect! And make sure you keep an eye on Todd Tennant’s graphic novelisation of the rejected Ted Elliott/Terry Rossio 1994 Godzilla screenplay — 68 pages so far and counting… … Continue reading

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American Godzilla: The Graphic Novel

Artist Todd Tennant — midway in his ambitious task of converting the abandoned 1994 screenplay by Ted Elliott/Terry Rossio for director Jan De Bont’s US Godzilla film into a graphic novel — has just renovated his poster for the project … Continue reading

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New Daikaiju Appears Through a Fog of Obscurity

A previously unknown and unsuspected Japanese giant monster film has just come to light — one that resonates backwards right to the start of the daikaiju eiga tradition. What is it? You’ll have to read on to find out. Background … Continue reading

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Flying Saucers Over Godzilla

You may recall that kaiju artist Todd Tennant has been creating, for everyone’s fannish pleasure,  a graphic novel rendition of the original script for a US Godzilla film — a script written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. Initial planning … Continue reading

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Weekend Fright Flick: Clooney vs Godzilla

This weekend’s short genre classic may violate copyright restrictions with extreme prejudice — but as the “author” gains nothing from the violations, I guess the companies involved are as amused by his “Movie Remix of monstrous proportions” as the rest … Continue reading

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Gryphon Noir

Kaiju artist Todd Tennant has sent us a great image he’s created that irresistably reminds me of a sort of monster noir (I’ve been watching a lot of films noir lately). It’s the Gryphon — Godzilla’s opponent in the 1994 … Continue reading

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I’ll Lead!

I’m trying to think of something witty to say about this Godzilla vs Kitten Kong image, but it’s too early in the morning… via Cat Sparks

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My Dinner With Codzilla

The first episode of The Jim Henson Hour (1989) featured an affectionate parody of Godzilla (among other things) and starred what has to be the biggest Muppet ever, this side of the rampaging Audrey 2s from the original final sequence … Continue reading

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Giving Form to the King of the Monsters

This documentary has too many priceless images of the development of both Godzilla and the Godzilla suit not to post in here. Slightly abridged to fit the YouTube format, it is by Godzilla expert Ed Godziszewski chronicling the evolution of … Continue reading

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Review: Showdown of the Godz

Showdown of the Godz (US- 2007; short [15 min]; dir. Julien Calderbank) Film and television are hothouses of fanaticism.  To “outsiders” obsessive media fans, known in Japan as Otaku, can be seen as weird, pathetic, sad, dysfunctional — even if, … Continue reading

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