The monster film that reverberated terror on the entire earth with its monstrous effect still has an indelible mark on the minds of the audience. Godzilla, the monster which created tremors both on land and sea, is a movie often treated as impeccable as the Jurassic Park franchise. The sea inhabitant monster will get a new avatar as the Japanese film producer-distributor Toho is planning the first-ever feature-length animated Godzilla.
The full length animated feature is being produced by digital animation house Polygon Pictures (TV’s Transformers: Prime, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Ronja the Robber’s Daughter). It will be directed by Kobun Shizuno (Detective Conan series) and Hiroyuki Seshita (Knights of Sidonia), from an original story and screenplay by Gen Urobuchi (Psycho-Pass: The Movie).
Toho’s Godzilla franchise has already had both theatrical and animation treatment as two feature length live action films have been released in the past- one in 1998 and the other in 2014 with the same title Godzilla.
Also, an animated television series Godzilla: The Series was originally aired on Fox Kids in 1998 in the United States. Toho had previously collaborated on this TV animation series as a follow-up to the 1998 film.
Both the live action movies were based on heavy use of VFX and CGI to create the humongous monster and its stings. It would be interesting to see how the character is created in animation bearing in mind that it is a full length feature.
Toho mentioned, “We’re aiming to make a big-scale animation entertainment that people who love Godzilla and people who know nothing about him can both enjoy.” The movie is expected to hit theatres next year.
