Jan 16, 2017
Ricardo Delgado and his Godzilla maquette (for Jan de Bont’s unfinished project) in 1994.
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Ricardo Delgado and his Godzilla maquette (for Jan de Bont’s unfinished project) in 1994.
So I guess this is the script for the cancelled Godzilla '94 film
Todd Tennant’s comic book adaptation of the 1994 Godzilla script is finally complete, and he’s trying to get IDW to publish it. You can read a sizable sample here.
And since he requested we let the company know we want to see this in print: hey, @idwcomics, I’d like to see this in print.
Do you know if the Don Macpherson version of the De Bontzilla script is online anywhere?
The best you’ll get is the synopsis in this SciFi Japan article (skip to the section called “The Rewrite”).
I wonder if, had Jan De Bont's Godzilla been made, whether we would have been spared his awful remake of The Haunting. Yet another thing to blame Devlin & Emmerich for?
I mean, I don’t think you can blame them for De Bont getting fired.
How do you think Godzilla history would have changed if the de Bont movie was released in theaters? While it would have been a better movie the big thing that bugs me about is that Godzilla's origin. It's essentially Heisei Gamera's origin, and Gamera was hinted to come from Atlantis as far back as his 1st movie. Godzilla needs to be created or empowered by a nuclear bomb. As much as it sickens me to admit at least the 1998 one did that part right though it failed majorly in all other aspects.
After reading the SciFi Japan series, I think De Bont’s Godzilla would’ve either been a complete disaster or a CG revelation. Seems like they were really pushing the envelope with regards to what the technology was capable of at the time. As for how the Millennium series would’ve turned out - well, I have no clue about that.
For the record, I still haven’t read the ‘94 script yet.
GODZILLA promotional reel made up of clips from the Toho Godzilla movies. The video was produced by Culver Post-Production Center for Sony executives who were unfamiliar with Godzilla and wanted to know more about the character’s history. Video courtesy of Jan De Bont. © 1994 Sony Pictures Entertainment/ Toho Co., Ltd.
The TriStar Godzilla we could’ve gotten. Art by Mark “Crash” McCreery.