Director Confirms Oxygen Destroyer To Be In New Godzilla Movie

Above, the orignal Oxygen Destroyer on display. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Dr. Serizawa's invention will be making an appearance in the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters, according to an article in Cosmic Book News.

According to the article, the Oxygen Destroyer will be making much more than a cameo appearance.

They wrote:

Back in August of 2017 while filming King of the Monsters, director Michael Dougherty took to Twitter to tease the Oxygen Destroyer used in the original 1954 movie and the 1995 film Godzilla vs. Destoroyah.  

In a new interview, Michael Dougherty confirms the Oxygen Destroyer will be used in King of the Monsters and that it will be more than just a nod to the previous movies. 

"It appears as an important key item to the story, this is not a cameo," Dougherty confirms to the Japanese site Cinema Today. "Of course there will also be other weapons created by humanity that will be shown." 

In the 1954 original movie, the Oxygen Destroyer is used to kill Godzilla, while in the 1995 film, the Oxygen Destroyer creates the monster Destoroyah who appears as three forms in the flick. Destoroyah's final version stands twice the size of the King of the Monsters and sports bat-like wings with large curved horns on its head, a humanoid body structure, a long tail, and pincer.

To read more, go here.

"Godzilla: King of the Monsters" Gets PG-13 Rating

Above, the Japanese poster to the 2014 Gareth Edwards film.

"I want this on my tombstone."

That was the reaction by director Michael Dougherty to the MPAA's rating of PG-13 of Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

According to Heroic Hollywood:

The first trailer for Godzilla: King of the Monsters premiered during the Warner Bros. Hall H presentation at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. The trailer really brought the house down and since then, fans have been eager to see more of the mayhem that director Michael Dougherty (Trick ‘r Treat; Krampus) has in store for the sequel to Gareth Edwards’ 2014 film. 

Recently, it was announced that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have given the official rating to Godzilla: King of the Monsters as well as the description for the rating. The film is officially rated PG-13 due to sequences of monster action violence and destruction, and for some language.

I wonder what Dougherty's reaction would be if it were rated R?

To read more, go here. 

Godzilla On Legendary Pictures List Of "To Dos"?

Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Godzilla On Legendary Pictures List Of "To Dos"?

by Armand Vaquer

In a recent issue of Rue Morgue magazine, Michael Dougherty was interviewed about his new movie, Trick R Treat.

In the interview, Dougherty said this:

Every project I do goes back to what I was exposed to as a kid: X-Men, Superman, Halloween. I can't elaborate too much on my next film, but I will just say my other passion growing up was Godzilla. I'm crossing off the checklist that I first wrote when I was about nine.

Longtime Godzilla fan John DeSentis noted on his Facebook blog:

What does that have to do with anything? Simply that Michael Dougherty has been a collaborator of Bryan Singer's since X2 and Singer's LEGENDARY PICTURES produced Trick R Treat. Now the rumors would SEEM to have a bit more too them...even if nothing is set nor might be set.

So it appears that this may be a not-too-subtle hint that the rumored Legendary Pictures' Godzilla project is next to be "checked off" on Dougherty's list of "to dos." We'll see.

In the words of Toho's L.A. office, "No comment. [Snicker!]"

[Special thanks to John DeSentis for the head's up on this.]

UPDATE (10/27/09): Avery Guerra posted this over at the Monster Zero forum:

OK, Michael Dougherty is NOT attached to this project. My contact contacted him about it yesterday [even though we already knew the answer]. He said no. He was referring to "Calling All Robots". I thought that I had already cleared that up.

If "we" already knew the answer, then why the necessity to check? Apparently, the rumor had some legs to it and there was a possibility that it could just be true after all.