Toho retires Godzilla!

[trekgeezer]

Check out the story at  CNN.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/04/film.goodbye.godzilla.ap/

[Mr_Vindictive]

Read a similar story this morning as well on joblo.com.  Seems that Toho plans to retire Godzilla for about a decade or so.  Seems that Godzilla Final Wars (Godzilla 50) will be the last big horrah before Godzilla leaves us.  Does seem like it's gonna be a kick ass flick though with over 10 other monsters - some new, some old.

Seriously looking forward to it.

[daveblackeye15]

*sigh* Here's to Godzilla.

[FearlessFreep]

Ohhhh, no...there goes Tokyo, and Godzilla

[Andrew]

I was saddened by this news, but maybe a pause is just what the old king of monsters needs.  Give Toho some time to step back and maybe the next group of Godzilla-makers will have some new creative talent.  They had just better not ditch the suit effects.  No all-CGI Godzilla, please.

We do have a small horde of films (a couple of which need decent DVD treatment) and Godzilla enjoyed a good rebirth after his last long rest.  At least, after the new films got rolling.  "Godzilla 1985" was interesting and set the tone of him as a destroyer, but I mostly enjoyed the Heisei films.

And, of all things, "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla"  (1993) is still not out on DVD in the US.  Gosh darn it!

[Yaddo42]

They're going to retire Godzilla, but still let Steven Segal make films? There's a real dinosaur who needs to be taken out of action.

[Flangepart]

Yeah, i guess the big guy needs a rest. A vacation does the huge grey body good.
Can't complain about the series, overall. The ups and downs are inevitable, but the best stuff keeps me happy, when i need a break from reality...i need a lot of those, these days....
Still....there is an other way to play it.
I...if i had the cash...would love to do a series of films set in the G universe.
In short....monster battles, inother parts of the world.
G-force U.S.A., G-force Europe...that kinda thing. Could be good.
And over all, everybody knows about Godzilla...and worries when he's going to come back. There for...the monster battles are a perlude to the Return of the King....so to speak.
Kaiju Big Battel! Be there!

[Brother Ragnarok]

If Godzilla: Final Wars does good in the box office, there's no way Toho will let one of their biggest moneymakers sleep peacefully under the sea for another decade.  If it rules even half as much as it sounds like it's going to (10 classic monsters plus a new one?), it will crush the box office and we'll have another Godzilla within 5 years.  Here's hoping that after this, we finally see Godzilla vs. Gamera, directed by Kaneko, starring the Gamera 3 Gamera and the GMK Godzilla.  That would be the most metal thing in the universe.

Brother R