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GODZILLA (Shin Gojira) from TOHO (2016)
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TOHO's Godzilla Film Begins Production

 

Filming for Godzilla 2016, the first Godzilla film produced by Japan's TOHO studio since 2004, has begun filming.

 

Reports are coming in from Japan that Godzilla 2016 will be shooting exterior shots at Kamata Railway Station in Tokyo. Filming notices in that location indicate that scenes being shot will include a large number of extras running for their lives.

 

The notices also reveal that the films working title is Shin Gojira, which can mean New Godzilla or True Godzilla when translated in English.

 

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Toho's Godzilla 2016 will terrify with cutting edge effects

 

Set to be released in 2016, Toho's twenty-ninth Godzilla film will be co-directed by Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno and will be shot over the next few months. An online casting call is seeking extras to work in the Tokyo area from September through November.

 

Although Godzilla has often been portrayed as a hero in his movies, it sounds like Higuchi and Anno will be taking him back to his horrific roots. Animator/designer Mahiro Maeda and sculptor Takayuki Takeya are said to be working on a frightening design for the King of the Monsters that's based on his appearance in the original 1954 GODZILLA, and in a recent AP interview Higuchi promised that the film will feature the most terrifying version of Godzilla possible.

 

Traditional suitmation will again be employed to bring Godzilla to the screen, but this time it will be mixed with cutting edge digital effects like those Higuchi used on ATTACK ON TITAN.

 

"The work combines computer graphics with manipulating a towering doll of rippling red muscle that resembles a giant biological anatomy chart, as well as special-effects filmmaking, using actors moving through miniatures, to depict grotesquely enlarged humans.

 

Applying to Godzilla that kind of technology, which Higuchi calls "hybrid," has never been attempted in Japan."

 

An example of that 'Attack On Titan' special effects.

 

 

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Last week, filming began at Kamata Railway Station in Tokyo, where a large number of extras -- dressed from all walks of life -- were spotted screaming and running for their lives. Pretty safe to assume that they were panicked by a giant radioactive-breathing beast coming ashore.

 

God Warrior Appears in Tokyo filmmakers Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi are co-directing Godzilla 2016, based on a -script written by Anno.

 

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