Behind-the-scenes photos from Stan Winston Studio of the maquette for The Gryphon, Godzilla's opponent in TriStar's first attempt at an American Godzilla film in 1994.
Despite the name, The Gryphon was actually a chimera: a combination of various Earth animals mixed with alien DNA. But I guess "The Gryphon" sounded cooler.
I am no fan of the original Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot script for this proposed film. However, I would have sat through it just to see this creature and Godzilla (the images of which I posted yesterday) brought to life by Stan Winston and his crew.
As one of my online friends had rightfully pointed out to me about maybe one or few times.
While ultimately the Monsterverse and maybe to an extent the 1998 Zilla film are what we Godzilla fans can and legit enjoyed in more ways than one over the years, we must never forget what we lost in the process of all of it….
A 1994 American made Godzilla movie where the Big G could’ve looked like this
With effects handled by the legendary Stan Winston, as in that same Stan Winston who did Predator, the OG Jurassic Park Trilogy, Iron Man (2008), The Thing (1982), Aliens and of course Terminator
A solid writing team that’ll be handled by a competent director and even fought another kaiju in it who looked like this
I mean it is what it is nowadays but Man the fact this film got canned in the first place is a frustrating one
Legendary Godzilla: oh really nothing but why is zilla crying
Zilla: it's because he's mad at me
Legendary Godzilla: okay but why Zilla
G94: It because I was going to be the first American Godzilla movie on the big screen fighting a giant monster on New York City but unfortunately it was scrapped thanks to him
Zilla: I said I was sorry just because you were scrapped doesn't mean you can say mean things to me
legendary Godzilla: all right would you two stop arguing I know they don't like your movie zilla but, there are some people that liked it even you zilla and G94 everyone still like your design and I know it looks cool but, still you can't be mean to Zilla everyday people will still remember you and without Zilla there wouldn't be another American Godzilla movie plus you're not the only one that were scrapped or unmade Godzilla movie monsters
Maquettes of Godzilla created by Stan Winston's team for the proposed 1994 American film that was to be directed by Jan de Bont (Speed, Twister) and released by TriStar.
This film was abandoned by TriStar when the budget was projected to be in the $110-130 million range. De Bont insisted the film could be made for $100 million or less, but TriStar insisted on a $90 million budget, so de Bont left the project.
A few years later, after the success of Independence Day (1996), TriStar contracted Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich to make Godzilla. Their film ended up costing $125 million, and leaving a bad taste that persists to this day.
Sales sheet for Duel! Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, a 1994 gacha arcade game by Namco. You hit a button that makes Godzilla swing his tail, and the goal is to wack King Ghidorah in the head. This was part of the Godzilla Wars Jr. game series
Do you still have the list of movies that inspired ST4? I had a picture of it but I lost it and I haven't been able to find it since. Please and thank you in advance.