for those interested, I am currently working on a behind-the-scenes project of the 1998 film, which will include a website and a documentary on youtube. So stay tuned for next May! The narrator of the documentary is also a nifty surprise for all Alien scholars
Next year will be also a chance to talk about the various Godzillas on my blog, including Shin (which surprisingly shares a lot in common with the 1998 film)
Rewatching Godzilla films recently, one can identify how the Showa Godzilla goes from ghost of the atomic horror to what essentially amounts to a ronin - a mysterious stranger that saves a town from a villain, only larger in scale. The same pattern goes in the Heisei series with a different, darker spin, whereas the Millennium series is a series of branch-off narratives that reboot from the original. All very interesting stuff that is not often talked about
