I got the art book today! Here's some info for those curious:
- Godzilla's lair is beneath the Bermuda Triangle.
- The only practical effect used in the movie to represent Godzilla is the bit of skin Serizawa touched (and even that was altered digitally).
- Mothra's design combines elements from moths, butterflies, wasps, mantises, and dragonflies. An earlier, more explicitly moth-like design was rejected for looking like "a tank with wings". She was intended to look more intimidating than the Japanese Mothra designs and has Godzilla eyespots on her wings.
- Rodan was primarily based on the turkey vulture. For a long period designers incorporated prominent feather-like protrusions from his wings, which are still present in the final design but greatly reduced in size. One depiction of Rodan has a head whose skull nearly looks exposed coupled with spines on his upper back that continuously trail fire! He is listed as a "bio-volcanic" Titan and is described as flying like "a drunken brawler".
- Ghidorah's three heads all have subtle differences. The left head is "the brute" and has been torn-off and regenerated more than the others. The design of the heads and the thickness of the necks varied more than any other feature during the design process.
Unfortunately, the new Titans are nearly completely absent from the book, with the best look at them being a conceptual sketch of them bowing to Godzilla. There's also not that much concept art for Mothra, though Rodan has a surprisingly large entry with an unexpected amount of variety in the designs.
BTW I was hoping the "feathered Rodan" designs were a nod to the early concept art for the original Rodan movie where he was some kind of ancient bird, but if that was the case it's never stated.
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
As perfect as I thought the Rodan design was (along with him just being an utter little shit) I'm kinda here for a feathered Rodan?
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KwoaruConfident SmirkFlawless Golden PecsRegistered Userregular
I really love the idea of mothras wing eyespots being godzilla eyespots
Godzilla: Dragon/Water
Mothra: Bug/Fairy
Ghidorah: Dragon/Electric
Rodan: Rock/Flying (doesn't ever actually breath fire or use fire as weapon)
Kong: Fighting
Anguirus: Rock/Ground
Baragon: Ground
Gigan: Steel/Dark
MechaGodzilla: Steel/Dragon
Hedorah: Poison/Dark
Biollante: Grass/Poison
Space Godzilla: Dragon/Psychic
Alternative typing for some on your list:
Godzilla: Dragon/Fighting (Godzilla loves punching and throwing rocks WAY too much to just be water. He likes volcanoes too much to be water type!)
Mothra: Bug/Psychic (She literally has a psychic link with generations of humans)
Ghidorah: Dark/Dragon (He's one of the only kaiju who's ALWAYS pure evil)
Kong: Fighting... but he Mega evolves into Fighting/Electric
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HeatwaveCome, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered Userregular
I've found someone online who is sharing interesting bits of the movie novelization:
Jonah pushed the dead body of a Monarch tech from his chair, checked to make sure the seat wasn’t bloody. No sense in staining his clothes. It was clean, so he sat down. The dead man was still signed in, so it was no trouble to find the other containment sites. He copied them out. Just in case the data he’d come by five years before was obsolete.
There were more of them than he’d thought. That was good – the more the better.
He was just finishing up when Asher arrived.
“Colonel,” Asher said.
“Are Dr. Russell and her daughter secure?” he asked.
“Yes, sir. We’ve got them in the Osprey. We’re ready any time you are.”
“Good.” He noticed Asher staring at the man he’d pushed out of the chair. “Something bothering you?”
“No, sir,” he said.
“We’re at war,” Jonah said. “There are casualties in war.”
“I don’t question that,” Asher said.
Jonah smiled, a really genuine smile he almost never brought out.
“Yes, you do,” he said, softly. “You’re young, yet. You still care for… these. After all, they are our species. Evolution built us to care for them. But evolution isn’t always right, is it?”
Asher swallowed and tried to smile.
“Well there was the dodo,” he said. “And the platypus – that doesn’t seem quite right.”
“You know what I mean,” Jonah said.
“I do, yeah,” Asher said. “Look, what you did for me – nobody ever did anything like that for me before. I’m with you all the way to the end, no matter what. I’ll kill a thousand more like this if you tell me it’s necessary. I’m just not necessarily going to like it.”
I read a LOT of Godzilla novels as a kid and have no idea how any of them hold up
I only ever read Godzilla 2000 (which has nothing to do with the film of the same name).
BTW, I also bought and read the Life Godzilla special, which has some interesting info on the first Godzilla movie and a decent overview of the franchise's history.
I think for some reason I couldn't find the last few of the series when I was reading those, but I definitely remember the one where he goes underground beneath the south pole to fight Biollante.
I dont think this actually ever came out!
There was godzilla 2000
Godzilla at worlds end
Godzilla v the robot monsters
And that was supposed to come out but never did
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GreasyKidsStuffMOMMM!ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered Userregular
I dont think this actually ever came out!
There was godzilla 2000
Godzilla at worlds end
Godzilla v the robot monsters
And that was supposed to come out but never did
Huh, maybe I mixed it up with At World's End, this was when I was like
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
edited June 2019
The Godzilla novels were shockingly fine with murdering the cast if I remember correctly
Gustav on
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
So trivia tidbit I certainly didn't catch.
So Bradley Whitford keeps mention Brook's Hollow Earth theory and what not. So not only is the out of left field Joe Morton playing Brooks, Brooks is one of the science dorks from Kong Skull Island?
So Bradley Whitford keeps mention Brook's Hollow Earth theory and what not. So not only is the out of left field Joe Morton playing Brooks, Brooks is one of the science dorks from Kong Skull Island?
Yeah, he's the lead scientist guy working for John Goodman in Skull Island. You see him in this movie (played by a different actor) at the Mothra coccoon site.
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GreasyKidsStuffMOMMM!ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered Userregular
Still think Conrad should’ve grown up into Jonah. They’re both British intelligence!
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What about Gabara
Not real.
- Godzilla's lair is beneath the Bermuda Triangle.
- The only practical effect used in the movie to represent Godzilla is the bit of skin Serizawa touched (and even that was altered digitally).
- Mothra's design combines elements from moths, butterflies, wasps, mantises, and dragonflies. An earlier, more explicitly moth-like design was rejected for looking like "a tank with wings". She was intended to look more intimidating than the Japanese Mothra designs and has Godzilla eyespots on her wings.
- Rodan was primarily based on the turkey vulture. For a long period designers incorporated prominent feather-like protrusions from his wings, which are still present in the final design but greatly reduced in size. One depiction of Rodan has a head whose skull nearly looks exposed coupled with spines on his upper back that continuously trail fire! He is listed as a "bio-volcanic" Titan and is described as flying like "a drunken brawler".
- Ghidorah's three heads all have subtle differences. The left head is "the brute" and has been torn-off and regenerated more than the others. The design of the heads and the thickness of the necks varied more than any other feature during the design process.
Unfortunately, the new Titans are nearly completely absent from the book, with the best look at them being a conceptual sketch of them bowing to Godzilla. There's also not that much concept art for Mothra, though Rodan has a surprisingly large entry with an unexpected amount of variety in the designs.
If it does I haven't seen it yet.
There is a Gamera snuck in there too but shadowed enough that it isnt Legally Actionable
BTW I was hoping the "feathered Rodan" designs were a nod to the early concept art for the original Rodan movie where he was some kind of ancient bird, but if that was the case it's never stated.
Alternative typing for some on your list:
Godzilla: Dragon/Fighting (Godzilla loves punching and throwing rocks WAY too much to just be water. He likes volcanoes too much to be water type!)
Mothra: Bug/Psychic (She literally has a psychic link with generations of humans)
Ghidorah: Dark/Dragon (He's one of the only kaiju who's ALWAYS pure evil)
Kong: Fighting... but he Mega evolves into Fighting/Electric
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Ugh
I'm hoping for a Director's Cut release.
I read a LOT of Godzilla novels as a kid and have no idea how any of them hold up
I only ever read Godzilla 2000 (which has nothing to do with the film of the same name).
BTW, I also bought and read the Life Godzilla special, which has some interesting info on the first Godzilla movie and a decent overview of the franchise's history.
This was my shiiiiiiiiiit
I dont think this actually ever came out!
There was godzilla 2000
Godzilla at worlds end
Godzilla v the robot monsters
And that was supposed to come out but never did
It isn't amazing, it is goofy pulpy and clunky
But it is a noir kaiju muder mystery starring a washed up detective being called into Not Monster Island to figure out who killed Not Mothra
Its short and cheap and fun as hell
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