With recent films like Pacific Rim and Godzilla, the giant monster genre is back in style and another director is hoping to get in on the new boom. Director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes, V/H/S Viral) has written a giant monster movie and is hoping to shoot it. But he doesn’t want to shoot it with computer graphics. Instead, he wants to use practical effects for the monsters. That’s right. Nacho wants to go back to the old-school man-in-a-rubber-suit effect. The man for the suit? Nacho himself. Here is what he had to say about the proposed project.
The script I finished and want to get financing for is a twist on the kaiju eiga genre, the Godzilla genre. It’s going to be the cheapest Godzilla movie ever, I promise. It’s going to be a serious Godzilla movie but I’ve got an idea that’s going to make it so cheap that you will feel betrayed. You’re going to be so frustrated by it, it’s not even possible.
The way I wrote the movie – and I don’t want to explain too much – I found a way that is honest and logical to make Godzilla in a costume, destroying cities, models all the time. I wrote the movie in a way that the story has a twist so it makes sense to do Godzilla this way and I’m going to try to be the guy inside the costume because I love filmmaking to the core and I’m a film love, one of dreams is not to direct a Godzilla movie but to be inside the costume and destroy the cities. I want to be the guy in the costume.
He seems very optimistic about the project and he’s going to have to be for pushing such an ambitious decision in the special effects. I’m very curious to see if he can actually pull this off.
Source: Film Divider