SDCC: Godzilla concept art….

Man, is THIS reassuring!  OK, I’d go even more old school, but damn, it does appear that Legendary Pictures has learned the lessons from the Tri-Star debacle.  I think they even included the hint of Godzilla’s atomic beam weapon to reassure fans that the new revamp of Godzilla won’t try to skip this rather essential element, as the last revamp did.  (Morons.)

Notice also the smashed buildings, offering us the sort of mass destruction that was also lacking in the previous film.  And NO BABY GODZILLAS!

The Godzilla flick is due out in 2012, the same year The Avengers will be coming out.  This means it could possibly be the most awesome year ever, right there, even aside from the fact that Christopher Nolan’s third Batman movie should be out that year as well.

Now if they could only get a Luke Cage period blaxploitation flick in the works….

  • Mr. Rational

    Yowza. That’s some beautiful art right there.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Holy Jabootu, does that look incredible. Even a non-kaiju guy like me might see that one. Especially if the weather looks like this too(ie, no incessant rain).

  • John Campbell

    I was rather so happy when you didn’t reference the god-forsaken cartoon version of the tri-star movie…

    We humbly thank the mighty Jabootu for his mercy!

  • Rock Baker

    What’s wrong with his hands? The left hand has short, stubby fingers and the right has long, wacky fingers. It doesn’t seem to be perspective either, so what gives?

    If this is the film’s poster art (I don’t see any running masses or a terrified young woman in torn clothing), it is indeed a good sign. If the producers stay off their soap boxes and high horses, drop the PC stuff, and just give us a good old fashioned monster-on-the-loose epic, 2012 could be the best year the movies have seen in a long, long time!

    Oh, and they have to go suit-and-miniatures this time! No more cartoon Godzillas!

    It looks like ComicCon is the convention Kyle should’ve worn his suit to. He would’ve been in the same room as execs from Legendary.

  • Rock Baker

    “What’s wrong with his hands? The left hand has short, stubby fingers and the right has long, wacky fingers. It doesn’t seem to be perspective either, so what gives?”
    -Reverse those hands! Boy, do I feel dumb! You’d think with the kind of comic pages I’ve had to draw, I wouldn’t make a slip and mix right and left hands! I’m sorry, folks, I feel like I’ve brought the whole room down a few IQ points by posting that!

  • Gamera

    Well, ditto what everyone else said- looking good so far.
    I suppose it will have to be CGI instead of a stuntman in a suit but I can’t complain too much if they don’t do too much of the wild over the top stuff that gives CGI a bad name.

  • fish eye no miko

    Dear Tristar Pictures, Dean Dervlin, et al:

    THIS is what Godzilla looks like, you idiots.

    Signed
    The Fans

  • Rock Baker

    Actually, this sort of reminds me of the artwork Imperial used to use. Not exactly the same, but close enough to give me recall.

  • Rock Baker

    Oh, and since he’s built like Godzilla (which is to say, he LOOKS like a suit), wouldn’t it be completely wrong to do this with animation? I mean, you use the computer to do things you CAN’T do with real effects (or so would be the thinking in a sane world), so why be difficult and make a cartoon that looks like a suit? Yong Gary leaps into mind, and the memories aren’t pleasent.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Rock, I expect cost is the main reason. I mean, you not only have to make the suit, you have to lease the studio to house the miniature set, you have to build the miniature set, you have to rebuild the set if the take is blown, and so on. I’m not arguing against your point, just looking at other angles.

  • Rock Baker

    Oh, I’m allowing for that. The weird thing is that such movies are still usually done with minatures and only the monster is animated (case in point, Godzilla 1998). Building effects and cities and everything inside a computer program requires hundreds of technicians, ususally several times as many as would build a physical set. I’m not sure how the cost figures out between a union practical effects crew and a union computer effects crew, but it seems to be that (at this point in time at least) there’s still less overall cost in using a certain bit of physical effects. Seems some extra coin could be saved by going all the way in that direction (as a suit team might have ten to thirty people, while the computer team might have between 500 and 2,000).

  • DAMN IT! WHERE’S MY FREAKING TIME MACHINE!

  • P Stroud

    Simply the fact that Roland Emmerich is not involved creates hope. How much worse could someone have f***ed up Godzilla than Rolie did?

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Ooooo, pretty! It seems to most resemble the 90s version of Godzilla (although I’m not sure if that’s an ear or one of his spikes) with the Millennium spiky-spikes on the back. Since I rather like the 90s version, I have no problem with this.

    Still, I absolutely refuse to feel any excitement about this until I’ve actually seen the finished product. I still carry the scars Roland and Emmerich carved on my heart.

    JC–I rather liked the cartoon (and compared to the movie it’s Shakespeare). OK, let’s amend that: I liked the monster stuff. I didn’t give a whit about the characters but they came up with some crazy-ass critters for that thing. Same thing with the old Godzilla cartoon; the monsters were fine, but I kept wishing those chumps and their boat would be “accidentally” wiped out by Godzilla’s tail.