Godzilla 70th a New Roar in Southeast Asia

[LSD Jellyfish]

Can't stand the dorsals or the green atomic breath

I actually agree. To me, like green has always looked insanely ugly, and sort of stand-in for generic radiation. It, alongside yellow-orange, are the two colors I never want to see for Godzilla’s beam.

[Vakanai]

I like it - similar yet distinct from Minus One's, and like Minus One's clearly drawing inspiration from the Heisei design. Green beam is new but looks cool (well, the lead up to it since we don't get to see the beam...yet). I'll second the idea it's probably leading to a short video of Godzilla just being Godzilla in iconic SEA locations. Nothing big, maybe just a minute or something, but still cool.

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Re: New Godzilla ride in the works from Takashi Yamazaki

Yeah so apparently Igloo Studios did the VFX for the trailer so it's not related to Yamazaki at all but I will say that I'm game if that trailer leads to an Thailand produced Godzilla film in the future.

Never heard of them at all - is there any reason why Toho got these guys to do it?

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Not gonna lie, I like this new era even if I don't like everything that's come out. Like, sure, the MV is dead to me, the anime trilogy was awful, SP was mixed, and I wished Toho wasn't doing two period films in a row...but we've gotten very different and extremely experimental takes like Shin and Minus One, three of (my opinion) best Godzilla films of all time (G14, Shin, Minus One), and some really cool shorts and even ads. Like I loved the live action shorts, and I especially loved the Gemstone Godzilla, and even the footage of the rides have been cool. Now this. Like even during the wait on films which one may or may not like we also get the odd little side video in between.

[EvaGhidorah01]

I need modern Godzilla designs to stop having grey dorsal fins.

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If I had to hazard a guess, this is Toho trying to expand Godzilla into SE Asia, and as NSZ said, make up for lost time. SE Asia is a growing market so it makes sense.

Most certainly. Although this got virtually no attention in the fandom, just back in October a Thai music video came out featuring Godzilla

[Vakanai]

I need modern Godzilla designs to stop having grey dorsal fins.

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If I had to hazard a guess, this is Toho trying to expand Godzilla into SE Asia, and as NSZ said, make up for lost time. SE Asia is a growing market so it makes sense.

Most certainly. Although this got virtually no attention in the fandom, just back in October a Thai music video came out featuring Godzilla

Had to watch it on mute (can't make noise rn) so couldn't hear the song, but that was a pretty cool video. Did they make that suit or borrow it directly from Toho?

[JAGzilla]

White fins would be better, definitely agree there. That's one thing I don't like about the GMO design, is the gray fins. Green atomic breath is fine... it's not something I would want to see again, but it might be fun for a one-off.

[EvaGhidorah01]

I need modern Godzilla designs to stop having grey dorsal fins.

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If I had to hazard a guess, this is Toho trying to expand Godzilla into SE Asia, and as NSZ said, make up for lost time. SE Asia is a growing market so it makes sense.

Most certainly. Although this got virtually no attention in the fandom, just back in October a Thai music video came out featuring Godzilla

Had to watch it on mute (can't make noise rn) so couldn't hear the song, but that was a pretty cool video. Did they make that suit or borrow it directly from Toho?

It's the modern 54 suit used for the Eiji Tsuburaya museum short. Iirc the credits basically confirmed the Godzilla shots were filmed by Toho staff.

[DynomikeGojira]

Southeast Asian Godzilla project in the works.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... tsu-kaisen

[miguelnuva]

Out of the two confirmed and 2 potential projects so far this one has me most exicted if it is a fipm as this will be something completely new.

Supernova, Minus Sequel and potential Shin 2 will all be good in their own ways but we also know more or less what we are getting.

This is a true Dark horse depending on what the project could be.

[DynomikeGojira]

Out of the two confirmed and 2 potential projects so far this one has me most exicted if it is a fipm as this will be something completely new.

Supernova, Minus Sequel and potential Shin 2 will all be good in their own ways but we also know more or less what we are getting.

This is a true Dark horse depending on what the project could be.

Agreed plus it's already got a great design to start off with.

[LSD Jellyfish]

Southeast Asian Godzilla project in the works.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... tsu-kaisen

Read the article carefully, and from the perspective of a business person (not a Godzilla fan).

While Godzilla is mentioned quite a lot in the article, there is nothing that says Toho is asking companies abroad to make more Godzilla films. This is a symptom of people viewing Toho only as “the Godzilla company” and not having a treasure trove of Japanese licenses and properties at their disposal. Most likely, this’ll be for anime, or at most adaptations of older Toho sci-fi films.

We know that Toho is trying or is, licensing out a remake of the Human Vapor. I could see this, at most, being something like Matango.

Nothing by Matsuoka even mentions Godzilla. He’s very clearly saying he wishes that Toho had more of a direct way and access to streaming and anime.

[miguelnuva]

LSD is right l, I finally found someone who had part of that article posted and it says untitled spiders Asia project.

Being in that article and with the trailer from earlier it makes sense for a lot of people to think its Godzilla releated but Toho could be doing something else with their IP.

[DynomikeGojira]

Very well could be different but I'd say it's probably gonna end up being Godzilla related

[LSD Jellyfish]

Very well could be different but I'd say it's probably gonna end up being Godzilla related

While this may turn out to be true, I wouldn’t leap to that assumption. While the article uses a lot of images of Godzilla, and talks about Godzilla (because it’s popular), everything out of Matsuoka’s mouth discusses actually investing in Toho’s future as a global company.

While it’s clear there’s a global demand for Godzilla, Toho would be shooting itself in the foot is it exclusively pivoted towards Godzilla and over saturated the market with Godzilla.

[DynomikeGojira]

https://x.com/14_kaiju/status/194595097 ... HRHCA&s=19
This is under the Godzilla section is that the part y'all are reading

[LSD Jellyfish]

https://x.com/14_kaiju/status/194595097 ... HRHCA&s=19
This is under the Godzilla section is that the part y'all are reading

Yes, but, the project isn’t unnamed: it’s called a “new roar”. Likewise, it’s not a film. It is (most likely) a series of short films/advertisements for locations. But hey, I’ll say that’s more significant than what I was saying before.

Wait and see, before jumping to potential conclusions.

[DynomikeGojira]

True that exciting times for whatever it ends up being

[miguelnuva]

Overall it makes sense in theory.

Yamazaki knocks out the Minus One sequel and he's off to Hollywood.

Anno can then come in and perhaps get the Shin sequel out by 2028 maybe 2029 if that's truly in thr plans.

The Monsterverse will then hit 2030 assuming Supernova isn't a flop.

There is also the potential Southeast Asian project thay could be whatever and might not be Godzilla related at all.

This would give Toho plenty of time to meet up with another new director and get their vision of Godzilla potentially.

I don't think they run a risk of oversaturation yet because unlike the previous two eras, each Godzilla film so far has been widely different.

Shin and Minus One are night and day and they are all a different animal from the Monsterverse.

The every film a year stargety not been repeated is also helping.

[Jetty_Jags]

Wait and see, before jumping to potential conclusions.

No I think we should be jumping to even further potential conclusion. Godzilla vs Bagan here we come!

[GodzillaIsCool]

Let Korea remake War of the Gargantuas. K-thx.

It is probably going to be some kind of Godzilla shaped Kimchi or something. O_o

[miguelnuva]

I was listening to Dangerville this morning and while assuming a Godzilla project is coming he did make a good point in why Toho would consider potential doing a a film is that's what they are doing when mentioning Ultraman has a large Toy market in China much large than the US even.

If Godzilla was able to bring in similar numbers to ultraman in China Toho would have another large income source and market for Godzilla to explode in.