Possible Godzilla 2014 plot source material?

Interesting! Thanks for posting this!

"Zilla 2014"? Didn't you meant to say "Godzilla 2014"?

The plot seemed great but i don't want to see anything that envolves a budget cut unless the option was to go with a godzilla suit instead of cgi.

No. As the poster noted this was an old concept for an American Tri-Star Godzilla. While it would have been a better concept than the Devlin/Emmerick film, it's still not Godzilla. If you're going to be that drastic to change everything about an icon so much that the only thing that's recognizable is the namesake, why upset all the fans who made the IP a success and just come up with your own IP? With that I think I just won an award for the longest run on sentence on the boards. :-) Bottom line on this concept, it's cool. But it's NOT Godzilla.

Doing a suit over CG may not be a bad thing. Practical effects just LOOK better. They don't get dated like CGI does, and you get better performances from the actors. CGI should be used to enhance an effect, but whenever a filmmaker uses it as a primary effect, it loses some of it's reality, and just becomes a crutch. New Star Wars vs. Classics Star Wars is a great case in point. The remake of "The Thing" (John Carpenter's 1982 Masterpiece) vs. the "prequel." However, CGI can really give an audience a "WOW" shot that just cannot be achieved with practical effects. I think if studios went back to optical effects, and just used CGI accordingly, we could get some very amazing, lifelike effects. Sadly, that's not the way things are moving. CGI has pretty much taken over.

I uhh...Said "Zilla" because I got tired of typing "Godzilla". Sorry people, (or single person) who was offended.

They should learn from Jurassic Park, it was made in the 1990s and they used a mix between practical and computer generated effects and the creatures still look mind blowing after 20+ years, they should use a mixture of rubber suits, animatronics and CG for Godzilla.

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I believe that every clear shot of Godzilla should be CGI, only using animatronics and suits for more silhouette type shots. Jurassic Park's dinosaurs hold up, but there is a blatant contrast in the look of the skin of the animatronic dinosaurs and their CGI version, the Rex almost looks smooth in CGI where the animatronic version has a heavy amount of texture. They both look great by themselves but I hate when you watch a movie and can easily spot such differences, it's one thing I hate about classic Godzilla's where puppets or cybots were used because they never matched the suit, often with dramatic differences. There's nothing wrong with CGI, it's come a long way and doesn't have to mean losing the feel of Godzilla, they would just have to animate him to mimic movement of a guy in a suit. My hope in 98 was that they'd take Toho's Godzilla and elevate him to a new level of realism using CGI to create Godzilla and also blend him into the environment more realistically. For me, Toho's only been able to really make Godzilla look like a living creature in the 54, 84 and 89 films, there are some close runners too, but those three work. The 90s Godzillas and especially the millennium series looked more and more like a rubber suit and not skin as the series went on, he just would look so fake. My hope is that G2014 will be a design faithful to the Toho style, but using the latest technologies to give us the most realistic Godzilla movie ever.

Oh my...I'm glad this script was never made, its horrible! And like someone else said before this is NOT Godzilla. Godzilla being airlifted by helicopters?? Godzilla created by an ancient earth civilization?? Omg noooooo