>>9054169>>9054202>>9054219I really hate this sort of revisionist history that favors companies; the idea that Toho was innocent and the big ol' mean American company bullied them into selling out Godzilla. Truth is Toho execs ate Zilla up with a spoon. Realize that most executives, anywhere, aren't fanboys but people looking into expanding profits for their company and themselves. They saw a big Hollywood Godzilla production and happily gave their blessing because these aren't people who aren't stressing over the actual quality of legitimacy, but rather furthering a money making brand. all the stuff about keeping Godzilla's spines, toes, fingers a certain number aren't about artistic integrity but about brand integrity, so that American Godzilla's success would further Toho's. It didn't, so it got the cold shoulder after all. Even Godzilla 2000/Millenium's early press releases weren't about making things "right", it was all framed on how they were inspired by the "Success" of the Tristar movie. It was only with GMK when the tristar sequel wasn't happening that they shifted gears to disassociating with it.
You could argue that Tatopolous is stretching the truth or they said one thing to him but meant another; but I'm willing to believe him because a) he's actually a Godzilla fan himself and his first few designs tried to remain closer to the original before getting told to change it by Emmerich , and b) even if the Toho executives meant something else, they still ultimately ran with it.
