Sunday, April 4, 2010

Get Ready... Godzilla is coming in 2012


Oh Lord, they are trying again.

A movie studio wants to revive Godzilla. Shock Til You Drop reports:
Legendary Pictures is going to take another crack at the property. Bloody-Disgusting broke some time ago that they were flirting with snatching up the rights to the giant lizard. That flirtation is now a full-on love affair.

Legendary officially announced today it is going to co-produce/finance a new picture with Warner Bros. with the aim to unleash Godzilla in 2012. Toho is, of course, involved and will be handling the Japanese release.

"Godzilla is one of the world's most powerful pop culture icons, and we at Legendary are thrilled to be able to create a modern epic based on this long-loved Toho franchise," said Thomas Tull, Chairman and CEO of Legendary, in a press release. "Our plans are to produce the Godzilla that we, as fans, would want to see. We intend to do justice to those essential elements that have allowed this character to remain as pop-culturally relevant for as long as it has."

Dan Lin, Roy Lee and Brian Rogers are producing. Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira and Doug Davison will executive produce.
Well, they tried before, remember this?

In 1998, they brought Godzilla back, but it didn't do so hot.

Maybe this time around?

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I'll only have faith if a good director/producer gets behind it.

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