The American re-edit/English dub of the film gets even sillier than the Japanese original, but the Japanese version contains its fair share of goofy spectacle and over-the-top action, too. It's one of the campier entries in the franchise, so might be an acquired taste. However, the fac...
The next two films were also stand-alones in the old style, but with more of an emphasis on military hardware and the return of a government agency now called the Anti-G Unit. The films also contain a number of sly in-jokes taking some well-deserved swipes at the ‘98 American version...
Because this was 1985, and the Soviet Union was the Evil Empire, the American film crew decided to change the colonel's role. In the American version, he actually launches the missile himself. A couple of post-production shots are even inserted to show him "pushing the button". ...
In 1956 he appeared in the American version of Gojira, a.k.a. Godzilla, as reporter Steve Martin, with his scenes added into the original Japanese version. In 1985 he reprised his role in the Godzilla remake. (Thanks to Aaron for clarifying Burr's role.)...
Godzilla has seen several big screen incarnations through the years, though most American audiences will probably never forget (or forgive) the botched big budget 1998 effort by Roland Emmerich, starring Matthew Broderick in an American-ized version of the Toho monster story that was over the top...
(the breakout young star of Netflix’s STRANGER THINGS), Bradley Whitford, Vera Farmiga, Sally Hawkins, Kyle Chandler, Charles Dance, Ziyi Zhang, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Thomas Middleditch and Ken Watanabe. We’re also going to get American-ized versions of some classic Godzilla guest stars ...
American GODZILLA movie and the GODZILLA: THE SERIES Saturday morning cartoon show. Supervising creative development for GODZILLA `98 and GODZILLA: THE SERIES was Brian Weinstock, VP of Brand Management for Trendmasters who had joined the company in 1991. "I was with Trendmasters for 11 years,"...
There's also the fact they waited five years after the previous film. I wonder if the same thing is going to happen with the next American film. They're going to wait four years before they release the next one and the iron gets considerably cool. Whatever goodwill you built up t...
It’s basically a no-brainer to pit the most famous American monster against the most famous Japanese monster. In this matchup’s favor, Legendary has recently found a new home at Universal, the studio that has the rights to King Kong. And while it might take some work to find an approa...
nine years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese producer Tomoyuki Tanaka was flying over the Bikini Islands (the site of American H-bomb testing) when he came up with his brainchild, Gojira. The name, a mix of gorilla (a nod to King Kong) and the Japanese word for whale...