Notzilla

	Notzilla
	Notzilla
Alternate titles	None
Planned	2013
Concept history	N/A

Notzilla was an unmade 2013 Godzilla spoof that would have been produced by Moriah Media.

History

The screenplay for Notzilla, written by Mitch Teemley, became the first spoof to reach the final round of the Worldfest Contest. Following the competition, Teemley submitted the script to Toho, but was rejected.^[1] Seeking other investors, he prepared a teaser trailer and held a script reading at G-Fest in 2010.

Before its cancellation, actor Patrick Warburton, production designer Robert Harbour, director of photography Jeff Barklage, and producer Melissa Godoy were attached to the project. The film sought a budget of $1.5 million, with no computer-generated effects. It is unknown why Notzilla was never filmed.

Official Synopsis

In the future (1975), “brilliant young American scientist” Dr Dick Harvard (played by not-so-brilliant and not-so-young Raymond L. Suave) leads a team of crack scientists in atomic testing (no one knows why) near Yomama Bay. The unexpected result (these scientists don’t watch enough B-pictures): a prehistoric egg is shaken loose, after being exposed to massive amounts of radiation. Of course.

Dick’s mentor, “brilliant old Japanese scientist”, Dr Nissan Toyota, succeeds in hatching a dinosaur! But then it escapes, and begins growing at an alarming rate. Of course.

Dr Toyota wants to save the creature. But Dick is certain it will attack Tokyo. “Because that’s what always happens”. The two split up. Dick goes off to build his atomic molecule blaster, which he admits will leave a radioactive cloud over Tokyo for fifty years (“but after that you’ll never even know it was there”), while Toyota seeks a gentler alternative that will keep the monster alive.

Notzilla attacks Tokyo. Sort of. Actually he’s on a lark, playing with the miniature city, reversing toy trains, eating plastic soldiers, running a touchdown with a blimp under his arm. He parties hard while thousands of people run screaming in the streets (actually a couple dozen of the same people run screaming over and over again).

The army, led by General Buzz Kurosawa (George Takei—Star Trek, Heroes), is powerless to stop the monster (though Kurosawa, an amateur filmmaker, does get some great footage). Dick completes his controversial molecule blaster. He’s about to use it when Dr. Toyota shows up with his alternative device. In a rage, Dick accidentally turns the blaster on himself, resulting in his own over-the-top death scene—which schlock actor Raymond L. Suave had hoped would result in an Oscar nomination. It didn’t.

Toyota’s device stops Notzilla, but does not kill him, leaving the creature free to defend Tokyo from other latex monsters in the future!

Notzilla would have been presented as a lost 1966 film called Notzilla, the Duke of Monsters, the last role of American actor Raymond L. Suave.