Godzilla "Concept" Art: Nothing To See Here, Folks!

These images purported to be "rejected concept designs" for the Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros. Godzilla are making the rounds over the Internet.



Sites such as Shock Till You Drop, Dread Central and others have posted articles proclaiming that these are "the real deal" and, also, citing G-Fan as the source.

From Dread Central:

The images popped up in the latest issue of G-Fan. It should be noted these concepts were rejected, but at least they offer insight into which direction they're looking to go. Thankfully it's the right one!

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending upon one's point-of-view), the images are fan-art drawings. They are not rejected concept drawings.

Max Borenstein To Pen Legendary Pictures Godzilla

Above, Armand Vaquer with the Godzilla statue at Toho Studios in Setagaya, Tokyo.

Cinema Blend and The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' Godzilla project has a new writer.

The new writer is named Max Borenstein, who is taking over from Batman Begins co-writer David S. Goyer.

According to reports, Borenstein is relatively new to Hollywood. He wrote and directed a low-budget movies Swordswallowers and Thin Men back in 2003.

It is not known if this change is a good one or not or if this will either speed up production or slow it. Stay tuned!

"Pacific Rim" News

Above, the "Big G." No news yet on Legendary's Godzilla project.

The Hollywood Reporter has posted some news on Legendary Pictures' Pacific Rim project:

Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures are so keen on the early special effects from Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim that they're moving up the movie's release from July 12, 2013, to May 10, 2013.

Del Toro begins shooting the Godzilla-meets-Transformers pic begins this fall in Toronto. Thomas Tull's Legendary is taking the lead on the project.

Nothing new yet on Legendary's Godzilla project.

Legendary's Godzilla Design?

Is this the design for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla?



Maybe so, maybe no. Anyway, Dread Central posted this photo on their site. They won't bet the farm on it, but can't rule it out either. Fans are dubious.

As for me, it is too spikey for my tastes, but it at least looks like Godzilla and it is a major step above the Sony/TriStar version of 1998.

We'll have to wait and see.

To see Dread Central's write-up on it, go here.


UPDATE: Turns out this picture has been floating around for a while.