GODZILLA STORMING BACK INTO CINEMAS IN 2012
Hollywood studio bosses are unleashing GODZILLA back into cinemas - a new film featuring the colossal Japanese monster is scheduled for release in 2012.
The giant whale-gorilla was first featured in Ishiro Honda’s 1954 film Gojira and has since appeared in numerous "giant monster" Japanese films.
An American remake directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Matthew Bro derick was released in 1998.
Now executives at Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros Pictures are breat hing new life into the franchise by co-producing a new Godzilla film whic h will "pay respects to the original pic rather than follow up on Sony’s 1998 Godzilla," according to Daily Variety.
A director has yet to be attached to the as-yet-untitled new film.
Chairman and CEO of Legendary Pictures Thomas Tull states: "Our plans a re to produce the Godzilla that we, as fans, would want to see. We intend to do justice to those essential elements that have allowed the characte r to remain as pop-culturally relevant for as long as it has." (JMA/DV/MT
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