{"id":44,"date":"2007-09-04T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T05:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/the-real-american-godzilla-movie\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T01:05:31","slug":"the-real-american-godzilla-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/the-real-american-godzilla-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real American Godzilla Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiju artist Todd Tennant has for some time been turning the original script that Jan DeBont was intending to use as the basis of his <i>Godzilla<\/i> film into a graphic novel. To date there are 38 pages, five new ones having been added today. It looks great and it reads like a real Godzilla movie, not the Godzilla-In-Name-Only that we ended up getting from Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href='http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/g94poster.jpg' title='Poster for Todd Tennant\u2019s Godzilla \u201894'><img src='http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/g94poster.jpg' alt='Poster for Todd Tennant\u2019s Godzilla \u201894' \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Todd&#8217;s graphic novelisation comes with the blessing of conceptual artist Ricardo Delgado for Todd&#8217;s Godzilla &#8217;94 design, and storyboard artist David Russell has also been supportive. So this is a unique opportunity to gain a sense of what might have been. The <a href=\"http:\/\/americankaiju.kaijuphile.com\/american-godzilla\/ag94page2.shtml\">site<\/a> includes information on the film that never was, original storyboard artwork and much else besides.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Todd through the Backbrain and let him know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>To start on page 1 of the graphic novel, click <a href=\"http:\/\/americankaiju.kaijuphile.com\/american-godzilla\/ag94novelpage1.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A while ago, when Todd started this project, I wrote a brief background history of the US Godzilla movie on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingsquid.net\/archives\/26\">Talking Squid site<\/a>. It&#8217;s worth checking out if you don&#8217;t know the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaiju artist Todd Tennant has for some time been turning the original script that Jan DeBont was intending to use as the basis of his Godzilla film into a graphic novel. To date there are 38 pages, five new ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/04\/the-real-american-godzilla-movie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}