What An Odd Hallucination!

The "Tale of Two Zillas" (as Dread Central.com put it) continues.

Fiore Mastracci of the Pittsburgh Film Industry Examiner responded to a fan's question on where did he hear that Toho was planning to produce their own Godzilla movie concurrent with the Legendary Pictures/Warner Brothers one.

This is Mastracci's reply:

Look no further than my earlier posts on the official OUTTAKES WITH FIORE Facebook page. Back in March of 2010, Toho announced it would sells rights for another American Godzilla. Within the same week, they announced production had started on their own new version and that it would be released in December of 2012. This report was verified by my sources within Toho.

Admittedly, there was speculation that Toho made the announcement as a means of pressuring both Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures to ensure a true Godzilla translation, so as to avoid the conflicts and confrontations that resulted over the Emmerick and Devlin production.

When Godzilla fans heard the Big Guy was coming out of retirement two years earlier, the buzz was overwhelming. Some think Toho's hand is forced and they must finish their project. Personally, I think the new American version will hold off the Japanese version. Toho will make money on the American release and buy themselves more time, so that the decade forced retirement will see fruition.

Original plans by Toho were to release the new first Godzilla movie in March of 2014, on the 60th Anniversary of the original. The American version could serve as a decent gauge for that plan.

Well, some fans searched through Mastracci's Facebook archives for March 2010 and found nothing.

As Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) said in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein:

What an odd hallucination! Well, the human mind is subject to many strange complexes.