Talk:Negadon: The Monster from Mars
Covering Planzet
Watched Planzet using the Dailymotion upload that Zillaman98 found. There are quite a few Negadon references:
- Negadon is the enemy in an electronic game the main character is seen playing before the aliens invade.
- As in Negadon, there's a military character named Seiji Yoshizawa; they even look the same, age aside.
- The retro space station from Negadon is shown destroyed.
- Here's the most eyebrow-raising one: A worn poster for Negadon appears on the side of a shuttered movie theater.
- Humanity's Mt. Fuji-sized mecha superweapon (Kyros?) is a dead ringer for Negadon.
There's also a Martian colony (construction of which began in 2030, five years after Negadon takes place), and F-104 Starfighters are still being flown in 2047, among other retro touches. Yet despite all this, I can find no official confirmation that it's a sequel to Negadon; it's just billed as being made by the same people. This is the case in both English and Japanese publicity materials. Next step is getting the Blu-ray, as it includes an audio commentary by the director. But if he doesn't call it a sequel there, I'm afraid it's going to be a "no" on a Planzet page from me. It would merit a lengthy trivia entry though.--Astounding Beyond Belief (talk) 15:56, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Wasn't the events of Negadon alluded too in Yūra Yoshizawa's speech though?, i heard name's wasn't used but if you saw Negadon you would know what she was talking about, but im going off of the Omniviewer video i saw, as for no official confirmation of it being a sequel anywhere, maybe it was meant to be a suprise and that the viewer was supposed to draw the connection. https://youtu.be/fGcOtSoAdh4?si=rRKkrJRD01P90CG7
- ---Zillaman98 (talk)
- Ah, I missed that implications of that line; thought she was referring to the energy shield built around Earth. In the dub, the line is "The man who 28 years ago brought the sudden alien attack to a close...", which lines up with the year Negadon is set but doesn't describe Yoshizawa's role in that film at all. He actually tried to talk Narasaki out of fighting Negadon!
- Not advertising it as a sequel was marketing malpractice; it's been largely forgotten, but Negadon was very well-received by kaiju fans at the time.--Astounding Beyond Belief (talk) 17:33, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- --IDK if the dialogue is diffrent in the subbed version of the film. Zillaman98 (talk)