Godzilla (June 2012 screenplay)

Godzilla Alternate titles None Planned 2014 Concept history Godzilla (2014)

The June 20th, 2012 revision of the Godzilla 2014 screenplay is one of the original revisions of the screenplay for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla.

History

This 107-page-long revision of the Godzilla screenplay was worked on originally by David Callaham, David S. Goyer, and Max Borenstein, and was submitted to Legendary on June 20, 2012. Further revisions would be made and eventually the final script was completed.

Plot

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Differences from the Film

• In an extended opening, the USS Nautilus surfaces at Bikini Atoll, its arrival suggestive of a sea monster. This moment also appears in Godzilla: The Official Novelization.
• Ishiro Serizawa is named Honda, while Vivienne Graham is absent entirely.
• The male and female MUTO are called Hokmuto (from Hokkaido) and Femuto, respectively.
• The United Nations' Special MUTO Unit discovers the spore containing Femuto and a Godzilla skeleton in Siberia. Two MUTO skeletons are also present, still entombed in ice.
• Ford and Elle are siblings, 18 and 13 respectively in their introductory scene. Their last name is Maddox. Their mother is named Linda, and their stepfather is Nathan Brody.
• Linda and Nathan work at the Jancorp Nuclear Power Plant in Hokkaido.
• Hokmuto's attack on Jancorp Nuclear Power Plant is brief, with no tearful goodbye between Nathan and Linda.
• With the Special MUTO Unit covering up Hokmuto's involvement, Nathan takes the fall for the Jancorp nuclear accident and resigns. Ford thus blames him for Linda's death.
• Akio, the Hawaiian boy Ford protects in the final film, is called "Ichiro" in this script and is Japanese.
• In this draft, Godzilla is explicitly mentioned to be 600 feet tall, or 182.88 meters. In the final draft, his height was reduced to 355 feet, or just over 108 meters.
• The 'Hokmuto' is defeated [not killed] early on, outmatched by Godzilla as it was hunting alone instead of in a pair with a female. So, Hokmuto turns himself into a chrysalis where later on it breaks free and has grown four wings.
• Godzilla uses his atomic breath for the first time against the male MUTO instead of the female MUTO
• Godzilla rips off one of the male MUTO's wings.
• Only the female MUTO has EMP powers, and whenever she is close, Godzilla cannot breathe his atomic breath.
• The male MUTO can create lightning-like "shockwaves" that ripple through the air and create aurora lights.
• Instead of Ford Brody destroying the MUTO eggs by igniting an explosion by himself, he gets the help of other soldiers and destroys a spore by jamming a pair of boltcutters through it.
• Instead of impaling the male MUTO with a broken building, Godzilla crushes its head with a strong bite.
• Instead of firing his atomic breath down the female MUTO's mouth in a "Kiss of Death," Godzilla cuts off the Femuto's head clean off her neck with his claws.

Gallery

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  Cover of the screenplay

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  Hokmuto concept art (thought to be from around this time)

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  Hokmuto (4-winged) concept art (thought to be from around this time)

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  MUTO concept art (thought to be from around this time)

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  MUTO concept art (thought to be from around this time)

Trivia

• The Godzilla carcass found in ice in the beginning was changed because production learned that Man of Steel potentially might have had a similar scene involving an alien spaceship in the works.

External Links

• PDF of the script, dated 6/20/12

References

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