The origin of Godzilla?

Godzilla, whose English name is Godzilla, comes from Godzilla, a film of the same name directed by Bendo Tadao, which was released in 1954. Its background setting has been changed many times with the development of the times, but its original background setting is: ancient creatures polluted by nuclear radiation. Its original screen image comes from a brave animal, an ancient China animal to ward off evil spirits!

1954 released the sci-fi disaster film Godzilla, produced by Japan's Dongbao Co., Ltd. and directed by Tadashi Bendo. Once the film was released in Japan, it caused a strong upsurge of watching movies, among which the big BOSS Godzilla became a household name in Japan.

After that, Japan Dongbao Co., Ltd. seized the opportunity to shoot many Godzilla films from 65438 to 0954. In addition, Japan Dongbao Co., Ltd. also created a number of classic monster characters centering on Godzilla!

Hollywood Godzilla

Among them, from a global perspective, what really makes Godzilla's screen role popular all over the world is a series of sci-fi disaster films featuring Godzilla. The main reason why Godzilla, an oriental screen character, is spread all over the world by relying on Hollywood is that the American theme of top special effects is more conducive to global spread!

1998, Japan's Dongbao Co., Ltd. licensed the copyright of Godzilla's character to Samsung, and then Samsung entrusted Sony of the United States to shoot. So in May of 1998, the first film featuring Godzilla was born in Hollywood film history, namely Godzilla (98th edition) directed by roland emmerich and starring matthew broderick and Jean Reno!

Later, in 20 14 and 20 19, Japan Dongbao Co., Ltd. cooperated with American Legendary Film Company to produce Godzilla (version 14) and Godzilla: The King of Monsters. In these two films, Legendary Pictures not only adopted the role setting of Godzilla in the original version, but also added monsters such as Mothra and Kidola in the original version.

In addition, with the release of 20 17 "Kong: Skull Island" and the appearance of "Emperor Plan", the "legendary monster universe" that Legendary Pictures tried to build is gradually taking shape. Since then, the establishment of Legendary Monster Universe has brought new "vitality" to Godzilla, an old IP that has been born for more than 50 years!