Director's Cut
Last uploaded: Wednesday, February 11, 1998

Godzilla image controversy continues

Yesterday, Harry Knowles' Ain't it Cool News ran a story commenting on the Godzilla pictures I ran on Director's Cut Sunday. AICN received information from a source who's reported to be "in" who denied that the images running on our Godzilla page are the finalized look of the beastie.

Looking back on what I exactly wrote, I said on the Godzilla page that CA sources have told us this is fairly close to what the big lizard will resemble, with tweaks and minor alterations made during the CGI phase of the film...but essentially, this is the shape and form he'll be in. He's a big mutated lizard instead of a two-legged guy in a rubber foam suit. And while I'm not privy to the complete and finalized look of the Big G (he is supposed to do some serious urban renewal to NYC on two legs at some points in the film), do compare the statues's hind legs to the brief glimpse we've seen in the teaser trailer. Kissing cousins or what?

New information confirming the Hermosa Beach connection, where this maquette came from, and a follow-up to Sunday's post is up on the Godzilla page. (And a note to Harry, re: your note on AICN: while I realize that "a model that is scanned into a computer is NOT wrapped around a building", I'm also fully aware productions create models and mock-ups to act as reference for animators and designers all the time, so they have a 3-D object placed in scale as for reference. Godzilla ain't the first production to do this [it's also used to create a 'hard merchandising' look for interested licencing parties, so they have something 'solid' to look at.] But here's hopin' Centropolis has up barking up a wrong tree and will completely surprise us both come May 20th...)

Toy Story 2 news...

Ya know, sometimes being the Director is a batty thing. Take f'instance this piece o' email received from a reader of the Toy Story 2 script. Disney just announced that they'll release the film theatrically instead of direct-to-video...which means 'Widgett' is hard at work on a Toy Story 2 page.

Anyway, our anonymous scooper told us about some of the new places and toys we'll get to see in the sequel...

"Ya know folks, sometimes the world is just a batty kind of place. Two days ago, I got the script to Toy Story 2 and it rocks. I hadn't heard much since it was announced that they were doing a direct to video version. The script came and I finished it this morning. This script is twice as cool as the first film. Emperor Zurg appears, Al (of Al's Toy Barn), and the other toys in the Woody playset from 1952. Woody's horse is named Bullseye. Then there is the two other characters.. Prospector and Senorita Cactus. There are many cool surprises of pure geek joy, and the script is tight. Tight tight tight tight TIGHT!!! Oh and I hope they keep the pigeon sh*t, it's great... GREAT!!"

I'm left scratching my head as to *how* bird doo-doo is gonna look rendered...

What's 'Roofus'?

It's a movie that I haven't had time to draft a film page for yet, and which 'Didier' has sent us info about. Robin Williams is now in discussions for the role of a dog that transforms into a man. Miramax wants to start filming the picture this Spring...

To be filed under the 'hope to God this is true' section...

We're told by an anonymous scooper that MGM and Fox are working on a deal that would allow the two studios to jointly create Spider-Man. Whether this is just some fanboy's wet dream (remember, it was an anonymous scoop) or someone who knows something remains to be seen. But the scooper left us with one piece of info that would help us determine they're in-the-know: they said an announcement should be expected sometime in late March, around the time there's a famous awards show.

Oh, great. Now that leaves us with an even bigger mystery...what awards show are they talking about??!

David Goyer talks about the Venom and Blade movies...

One of our CA readers just got a response back from the writer of these two flicks and was kind enough to forward Goyer's comments to me. In short: Blade movie done, Venom movie doubtful. Check out the Venom page for the whole letter.

Attention Universal Studios and Phil Tippett employees...

...I'm looking for information on two cool projects. "Gandalf" has told me about The White Company, a script in development at Universal; it's a medieval story about a young monk who leaves the monastery and winds up traveling to France with an army going to war, and may be based on a Arthur Conan Doyle story. Expedition is a ultra-cool book by New York painter Wayne Douglas Barlowe, and is a chronicle of Mankind's first expedition to the alien world of Darwin IV. Besides being...well, a beautifully painted and imagined book, Phil Tippett has been mentioned as the fellow spearheading the film endeavour. I'd love to learn more about these two...if you get my drift

Patrick Sauriol
Creator, Chief Content Writer & Director
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