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3D Godzilla: The Unmade American Godzilla Nobody Talks About

So if you’ve ever paid attention to any of my posts, I have actually talked about this particular godzilla a little bit so I’ll do a little recap. This is the third Redux of the unused Godzilla design, I have always been fascinated by this godzilla. For its history, it goes like this; Steve Miner was given the go-ahead from Toho to conceptualize the film and scurry around Hollywood for backing. The stop-motion figure you see here was created by William Stout who also did some concept art with Fred Dekker brought in to write the screenplay. Miner spent that year getting the biggest names he could to give his idea a go and had this movie been made and succeeded, Stout would’ve been in line to direct a Rodan spinoff. All of this said, nobody gave enough of a shit to realize the project. A 3D monster-flick utilizing stop-motion with a passionate director who also loved the source material? Nah. Some producers were actually interested but the projected budget of $30 million drove them and other studios away since to Hollywood, Godzilla was a ‘children’s’ property and by the end of 1984, Miner gave up and let the rights revert to Toho who had revived the franchise themselves months prior.

Changelog is as follows;
-More greenery all around
-Added pupils
-More details on the entire head
-Tail gradient is much darker by the end
-Remodeled dorsal plates, more accurate to the stop motion puppet
-New dorsal plates in light of new reference material
-Remodeled fingers and nails
-Nigh-complete removal of polyfill

You’ve probably heard enough about the story of it’s failed production but not so much the actual contents of the plot. Well for history sake, it goes as follows;

Story Summary
An asteroid hits an american satellite that accidentally launches a nuke at the south pacific, awakening Godzilla who was given his name from a japanese legend about a dragon. A dead baby godzilla washes ashore on mexico following an investigation for a sunken soviet submarine. The adult godzilla starts running amok in california before finding the deceased baby in a warehouse, he is then drawn away by the sounds of the baby being played at Alcatraz. A high-tech prototype helicopter carrying a strong missile is reluctantly fired by the son of the protagonist at the monsters throat which proves fatal. The kid soon falls off but is saved by Godzilla and set down gently. The boy is now left to mourn godzilla as he takes his final agonizing breath.

This is a very very simplified summary of what the plot was going to be purely because many of you have the reading comprehension of decapitated goldfish in radioactive waste but also because the information is a bit to take in and one could only imagine what this may have really looked like had the film gotten its backing or what it would’ve done for the greater Godzilla franchise.