Godzilla, whose English name is Godzilla, comes from Godzilla, a movie of the same name directed by Honda Tadatoki, which was released in 1954. Its background setting has been changed many times with the development of the times, but its original background setting is: ancient creatures polluted by nuclear radiation. Its original screen image comes from the brave animal, an ancient animal in China to ward off evil spirits!
Godzilla, a sci-fi disaster film released in p>1954, was produced by Japanese Dongbao Co., Ltd. and directed by Honda Tadatoki. Once the film was released in Japan, it caused a strong upsurge of watching movies, among which Godzilla, the big BOSS—, became a well-known "screen idol" in Japan.
After that, Japan's Dongbao Co., Ltd. seized the opportunity and made many films featuring Godzilla after 1954. In addition, Japan Dongbao Co., Ltd. also created a number of classic monster characters with Godzilla as the center!
Godzilla in Hollywood
Among them, from the perspective of the world, it is a series of sci-fi disaster films with Godzilla as the main character that really makes Godzilla's screen role popular all over the world. The main reason why Godzilla, an oriental screen character, relies on Hollywood to spread all over the world is that the American theme with top-level special effects is more conducive to spread around the world!
In p>1998, Japan's Dongbao Co., Ltd. licensed the copyright of Godzilla's character to Samsung, and then Samsung entrusted Sony of the United States to shoot. So in May 1998, the first film featuring Godzilla was born in Hollywood film history, namely Godzilla (98th edition) directed by roland emmerich and starring matthew broderick and Jean Reno!
after that, Japan's Dongbao Co., Ltd. and the legendary film company in the United States made two films, Godzilla (14th edition) and Godzilla: The King of Monsters, in 214 and 219 respectively. In these two films, Legendary Pictures not only adopted the role setting of Godzilla in the original version, but also added monsters such as Mothra and Kidola in the original version.
in addition, with the release of Kong: Skull Island in 217 and the emergence of the "Emperor Plan", the "Legendary Monster Universe" that Legendary Pictures tried to build is gradually taking shape. Since then, the establishment of "Legendary Monster Universe" has brought new "vitality" to Godzilla, an old IP born for more than 5 years!