I’d make it a satire and have play out it in real-time. Godzilla never appears “live”, only in news videos on people’s phones and laptops and TVs. The entire movie is about how Wall Street bourgeois and their PMC minions are trying to cash in on the disaster. Godzilla meets Don’t Look Up meets My Dinner With Andre.
A further thought, this idea would work equally well without official Godzilla. Probably better because the budget could be a lot smaller if you didn’t have to pay licensing rights, putting this within indie-studio territory. Just make up some new big lizard monster destroying urban Japan, the audience will understand the reference.
Further further thoughts: since it would play out in real-time, the characters wouldn’t have any downtime, they’d be on their phones more or less continuously, trying to arrange financial shenanigans. Half the movie could be one-sided conversations in taxis and ubers. A clever enough script could reduce the need for big office sets.
Further further further thoughts: have the entire movie set in real-time just outside the entrance to a reasonably-fancy-design office building in what’s passed off as New York. Have the entire movie be from the perspective of some proletariat person listening to all these PMC assholes conspiring and arguing and backstabbing and gossiping as they come and go to/from the building. I’m thinking it could be someone on the building’s janitorial staff waiting for their late bus. This would put the whole concept into student-film-budget territory. Of course to make this sort of thing work you need a really solid script. But I could see it working.
Godzilla vs Bambi
A reboot of this Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969).
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What the fuck is the American one even about these days lol. My understanding is that the modern Japanese reboots continue with the theme of the horrors of war and the importance of humanity
But then the American one is just some big lizard punching a gorilla???
Godzilla as vengeance for all the victims of imperialism is a theme that’s been touched on (most prominently in Godzilla 1980), but I’d like to see that done more explicitly and centrally.
Alternatively, Godzilla could represent imperialism itself - instead of attacking Japan or the US, he could attack Vietnam. Do a Vietnam war movie from the perspective of the north Vietnamese where Godzilla is the stand-in for the US military.
Alternatively, Godzilla could represent imperialism itself - instead of attacking Japan or the US, he could attack Vietnam. Do a Vietnam war movie from the perspective of the north Vietnamese where Godzilla is the stand-in for the US military.
Predator did this, to an extent, and flipped around. The CIA had operations in South America and the Predator was slaughtering all of them for trespassing. Unfortunately the producers weren’t brave enough to make the Predator sympathetic to the guerrillas resisting imperialism and its collaborators, so the Predator was killing them too. But I was very surprised that they allowed it to defeat the American forces and even Schwarzenegger couldn’t win. But I don’t know - it paints the Latin American resistance as some savage beast that Americans cannot understand which is why they shouldn’t get involved, rather than something very human.
Godzilla being an incognito communist who is actually a North Korean politician who is periodically attacking capitalist countries to weaken them when they threaten communist nations too much. In free time, Godzilla is a peaceful farmer deep in North Korea. It likes wearing a big beret. The comically big spoon people attribute to Stalin is actually Godzilla’s and it’s actually comically small for its size.
Were I to do a Godzilla movie related to the current Godzilla movies made by legendary pictures, I’d being back Hedorah as the antagonist. A symbol for cour societies inability to do anything about pollution and climate change except offload the consequences into the global south.
Hedorah in this case would be the best result of scientists using genetic material from titans and extremophile bacteria in an attempt to creat a pollution eating bacteria. They would have success but with unforseen results. The bacteria eventually colaesces into one being. The new Hedorah would indeed consume pollution but also excrete deadly poisons as a byproduct. Godzilla would eventually save the day and prevent Hedorah from growing to a size beyond our control. The ultimate message would be that we can’t science and consume our way out of climate disaster, we have to make changes. Idk I’m not a writer.
Godzilla is all about that money and he robs everyone in Japan before marching off into the sea with a giant burlap sack with a dollar sign on it.
I’d want to write something silly and fun, in the vein of the mid 60s-70s Godzilla movies, though with just a touch of Ishiro Honda-esque themes of forces beyond human control coming to wreak havoc upon us.
Godzilla (the US) and his son (NATO) coming to destroy Greater Japan (Yugoslavia)
The movie opens with an intense battle between Godzilla and Ghidorah. In the process the moon is fractured. An international coalition is formed to visit the moon and assess the damage. Monarch pushes their way into it, raising the suspicion of some astronauts. After investigating they discover Monarch had worked with the US government to establish an observation lab on the moon, but for unknown reasons. The moon landing is successful but the mission is abruptly ended and the astronauts are killed. It seems the moon was more unstable than previously thought. A piece has started moving into Earth’s atmosphere. It lands the pacific, causing tsunamis. Godzilla and the other titans change their behavior. There is something wrong. Something else is on Earth. Colleagues of the dead astronauts pickup the investigation into Monarch. The moon is also hollow and has been holding something inside, another titan. Attacks begin on humans in Japan and the east coast of China. It’s space Godzilla!
I’d do a “Titanic”. A daughter of top corporate executives and a son of factory workers fall in love in downtown Tokyo, and then Godzilla attacks. They have to find a way to safety while trying to protect each other and defeat the romantic rival.
Anti-Imperialist Godzilla
Capitalism
