I have several questions, about how would you do some reboots of kaiju and giant monster movies.
You are tasted with writting and directing a new Gorgo movie.
You are tasked with writing a Gorgo comic, with a 12 issue run.
You are tasked with writting and directing a The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms remake.
You are tasked with writing and directing a Reptilicus remake/reboot.
You are tasked with writing and directing an American Gamera Movie
You are tasked with writing a 24 issue Gamera comic, with the only obligation being that it must be its own continuity.
You are tasked with writing a second season of the Gamera Rebirth anime.
Yeah, I was just curious how would you do them.
Wow, that's a lot. I'll try not to be redundant if I can.
There is nothing I'd really change about Gorgo, save for maybe working in some more female characters than the titular monster's mom, and maybe having one of the treasure hunters bite it at the end (or at least face some justice). Gorgo is pretty much a perfect movie.
My Gorgo comic would be a sequel to the movie focused on the creation of a kaiju nature preserve by the newly established Department of Monsters and Oversized Animals, who, in trying to establish a structured territory for Gorgo and his mother to keep them away from humans and vice versa, end up discovering several other kaiju in need of rehoming. The idea would be to build on the unique elements of Gorgo as a movie - namely the monster being put in a zoo/circus - and use that as a framework to tell a kaiju story that, while familiar in the elements it has, still feels distinctly Gorgo-based. It's a movie where people have to learn to think of these monsters as animals, and, in the spirit of the original film, where the monsters get the happy ending and the humans learn a lesson about living in harmony with them.
This one's harder because The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is, like, the template that so many other kaiju movies follow, which makes it historically important but, like, overshadowed by all the different stories that took that template and found interesting spins on it. So you kind of need to find an interesting spin that isn't just what some other kaiju movie did. I think I'd go back to the short story it's based on, "The Foghorn," for inspiration - maybe tell the story entirely in the lighthouse, with only the two lighthouse keepers as your characters, and have it be three different encounters with the time-lost creature. The Rhedosaurus wouldn't go on a rampage or get into fights with the military - it would instead be a story focused solely on the solitary life and misery of this animal, and how that reflects the feelings of isolation and alienation in our human protagonists. Which probably wouldn't be a crowd-pleasing kaiju movie, but it could make a fun arthouse flick, maybe win some film festival awards or something.
I don't think I'd change anything about the main plot of Reptilicus if I remade it - I think it's a pretty solid spin on the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms template - but I cannot remember a single human character in that movie except for the one goggle-eyed comedian who played the janitor in it, and I don't remember him for good reasons. So I think my big change would be to, like, come up with some decent human characters with personalities and motivations and stuff so the human segments are memorable for good reasons. Reptilicus would look more or less the same, though.
I'd just remake Gamera: The Brave but using Gamera's iconic roar. Maybe get some cinematographer who loves Spielberg movies to make it look like an American coming of age adventure movie.
I'd make a monster of the week comic where Gamera fights my take on all his old foes, plus some new ones because there's not enough to fit 24 issues unless we make it, like, 3 per monster or something like that. Also Daimajin is there.
Rebirth season 2 features alien space babes (both good and evil), Irys, Legion, the return of all the season 1 kaiju because why the fuck not, Garasharp, and Gamera's new extremely ill-behaved friend/menace, Barugon, a non-malicious but extremely rowdy kaiju that Gamera tries to reign in nonlethally. That would also be a plotline in my Gamera comic, actualy - I know that Gamera being alone in a sea of villainous kaiju is very much His Thing That Makes Him Special, but I think he can have one kaiju friend as a treat if said friend is still a big problem he has to deal with, and Barugon is the only Gamera kaiju with even a hint of innocence to him.
