USA Today: The 60-Year Evolution of Godzilla

Above, Haruo Nakajima during the filming of Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas (1966). Toho Co., Ltd. photo.

With the opening of Godzilla in three days, the articles from various media outlets keep on coming.

The latest is from USA Today, "The 60-Year Evolution of Godzilla." In it they briefly review the history of Godzilla and the changes he underwent during those years.

The article starts with:

A generation of monster-movie devotees grew up watching — and loving — a guy in a Godzilla rubber suit. 

While that's the kind of thing you'd expect to see in line next to you at Comic-Con nowadays, that classic low-tech design is still integral to the 350-foot-tall nuclear-powered creature laying waste again to cinematic landscapes 60 years after the first Japanese Godzilla picture. 

That original design — a melding of dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, Iguanodon and the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex — has gone through many changes since 1954, "but there is a somewhat consistent theme throughout that, and it evolved as cinema has evolved," says Andrew Baker, creature designer for the Godzilla reboot, in theaters Friday.

To read the full article, go here.