Legendary Monster

HELL YEAH!!!!

Godzilla is getting a reboot. . .again.   At the 2012 San Diego Comic Con Legendary Pictures wowed it's panel attendees by showing a teaser of an upcoming Godzilla movie complete with destroyed city and a hint of a big ass monster fight.  This time Gareth Edwards, British special effect wizard turned director who gave us 2010's indie cult favorite "Monsters", is attached to the project.  Like James Bond and Harry Potter, Godzilla is a character that keeps coming back - even when killed (which, ironically, is also true of James Bond and Harry Potter).  The first movie, Gojira, premiered in Japan in 1954 out of Toho Company Ltd and got an American adaption (or adoption, depending on how you see it) in 1956.  Between 1954 to 2004 there have been 27 movies, a short indie animation, several comics, and a couple of Saturday mourning cartoons.  Godzilla is a Pop Culture Icon and household name, since pretty much everyone knows the monster, its famous scream, the fire breath and it's bad attitude thanks to the miracle of syndicated television, VHS rentals and DVD sales. 

One thing that is clear from all the reports is that Legendary Pictures is running as far away from Roland Emmerich's 1998 attempt that generated almost as much hate as Phantom Menace. 
While the Legendary movie will most likely feature a CGI generated Godzilla, according to anyone with a blog or a Facebook page who attended the panel, we are getting "THE" Godzilla and not an overgrown iguana thing with no fire breath who took someone telling it to go screw itself to a highly questionable next level - a truly "WTF were they thinking" moment in movie history.  There hasn't been any word of a release date, and there's still some casting to be done, but this project looks like it's moving full speed ahead and the results and reactions should be interesting.