Godzilla Legend: The Asuka Fortress

Godzilla vs. Asuka Fortress Alternate titles Godzilla vs. The Asuka Fortress, Godzilla vs. Asuka, Godzilla Legend: Asuka Fortress Planned 1979 Concept history U.S.-Japan Collaboration: Godzilla → A Space Godzilla → Godzilla vs. Asuka Fortress → King of Monsters: Resurrection of Godzilla → Resurrection of Godzilla (1980) → Resurrection of Godzilla (1983) → The Return of Godzilla

Godzilla vs. Asuka Fortress (ゴジラ伝説 アスカの要塞,   Gojira Densetsu: Asuka no Yōsai, lit. Godzilla Legend: Asuka's Fortress) is an unmade 1979 Godzilla film.

History

Godzilla vs. Asuka Fortress was proposed by series veteran Shinichi Sekizawa to bring back Godzilla after his several year absence since Terror of Mechagodzilla. The film was considered all the way up to 1985 through various drafts until ultimately being abandoned; some story elements and concepts may have been recycled for the 1989 film Gunhed.

Plot

In the year 2000, Godzilla has been successfully sedated deep within the Japan Trench by means of a special frequency. Meanwhile, the scientist Dr. Yasuto Ito has invented and constructed a new super weapon dubbed The Asuka Fortress (or Big Boy in later drafts); a mountainous robotic super computer built to defend Japan against all threats. The Prime Minister of Japan intends to use the giant robot to enforce 'world peace' under the banner of The World Peace Unicom League but, instead, both he and his cabinet end up becoming The Asuka Fortress' first victims when it gains independence with the goal of exterminating all other life on Earth. Realizing how desperate the situation has become, a group of computer technicians and scientists who helped built The Fortress, lead by the oddly named protagonist 'Son of Heaven', free Godzilla from his underwater prison to battle the rouge super weapon. The Asuka Fortress recognizes Godzilla as the only being capable of destroying it and constructs and sends forth several robotic minions to assassinate the King of the Monsters. Godzilla eventually makes his way to The Asuka Fortress itself but the machine proves too powerful for him to defeat until Son of Heaven and his friends infiltrated the Fortress and shut it down from the inside. With The Asuka Fortress deactivated and the human heroes out of harms way, Godzilla obliterates the motionless mechanical behemoth.