Godzilla (June 2012 screenplay)

Template:Film Infobox Unmade The June 20th, 2012 revision of the Godzilla 2014 script is one of the original revisions of the script for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla. Template:TOC

History

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

Plot

To be added.

Differences

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Here is a list of differences between this draft and the final film:

• The atomic test in the very beginning of the movie which is gone into detail in with Godzilla: Awakening actually has a full-fledged scene instead of being part of the opening.
• Krasnokamensk, Siberia, Russia is the site where Dr. Serizawa flies to instead of the Philippines, ten years prior to the events of Godzilla.
• "Dr. Stabler" takes the place of the man who meets Serizawa and Graham in the Philippines.
• Ishiro Serizawa is called "Honda."
• Vivienne Graham doesn't appear in this draft.
• Instead of finding a giant Godzilla skeleton in the cave and 2 M.U.T.O. spores, the skeletons of giant 3 creatures (a Godzilla and 2 M.U.T.O.s) are found frozen in ice.
• Ford Brody is called "Ford Maddox" and is not in elementary school during the opening when his mother dies in the power plant; he's an 18-year old high school senior ready to go off to college.
• Elle Brody is called "Elle Maddox" and is Ford's 13-year old sister instead of his wife.
• Joseph Brody is called "Nathan Brody," is 40 years old, and is Ford's and Elle's step-father.
• Sandra Brody is called "Linda Maddox" and is 40 years old.
• The opening takes place in a suburban neighborhood in the Shakotan peninsula in Hokkaido, Japan, instead of in the fictional city of Janjira, Japan.
• The company that ran Janjira's power plant are called "Jancorp" in this script.
• The MUTOs are referred to as "Hokmuto" (male--from "Hokkaido" and "MUTO") and "Femuto" (female--from "female" and "MUTO").
• 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 (182 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 4 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.
• In this draft, only the female MUTO has EMP powers, and whenever the female is close, Godzilla cannot breathe his atomic breath.
• Instead of impaling the 3-winged Hokmuto with a broken building, Godzilla crushes the Hokmuto's head with a strong bite.
• Instead of firing down 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 script

Hokmuto concept art

Hokmuto (4-winged) concept art

M.U.T.O. concept art

M.U.T.O. concept art

Trivia

• The Godzilla carcass 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.

References

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