Jordan Vogt-Roberts on Directing a RODAN Solo Film

[SirSSJacob]

YES GODZILLA!! Please make it happen! ^_^

On a big side note... I just thought about it. Mr. Vogt-Roberts should totally Direct Kong vs Godzilla in 2020!
I would be completely on board with that

[GodzillaFan1990's]

YES GODZILLA!! Please make it happen! ^_^

On a big side note... I just thought about it. Mr. Vogt-Roberts should totally Direct Kong vs. Godzilla in 2020!
I would be completely on board with that

Him or Michael Dougherty. After what the latter demonstrated with Krampus and how enthusiastic the guy is with directing KotM. I'd be all up for him doing it as well delivering us the Godzilla movies we anticipated.

[SirSSJacob]

YES GODZILLA!! Please make it happen! ^_^

On a big side note... I just thought about it. Mr. Vogt-Roberts should totally Direct Kong vs. Godzilla in 2020!
I would be completely on board with that

Him or Michael Dougherty. After what the latter demonstrated with Krampus and how enthusiastic the guy is with directing KotM. I'd be all up for him doing it as well delivering us the Godzilla movies we anticipated.

Fair point, Let's see what he does with KotM first lol I don't doubt he's a good Director I'm just not familiar with his work(I mean i haven't seen any)
Also he's enthusiastic about making KotM?! That's awesome ^_^ I haven't heard that yet lol

[daveblackeye15]

Okay...so Jordan did 70s with King Kong meets Apocalypse Now. So how about Rodan is set in the 80s and its Rodan meets...Top Gun? Ambiguously not-ambiguously homosexual romance with daredevil jet pilots vs. Rodan(s)!

[Xenogojira]

A Rodan movie could work if KotM succeeds in making its titular monsters more familiar to the Average Joes. I would love it if Rodan starts out hibernating in a volcano, which would serve as another gateway to the Hollow Earth, similar to Skull Island.

And yes, Megaguirus would be the perfect enemy kaiju. Hell, prehistoric pterosaurs actually hunted dragonflies. And I like the contrast of a reptilian monster battling an insect-like creature (similar to Big G vs the Mutos).

[Cookson]

Okay...so Jordan did 70s with King Kong meets Apocalypse Now. So how about Rodan is set in the 80s and its Rodan meets...Top Gun? Ambiguously not-ambiguously homosexual romance with daredevil jet pilots vs. Rodan(s)!

I know you're just kind of joking, but on a serious note about timelines.... They need not to do any films based between Kong and G14. The regular person still did not know monsters existed till G14. Every future film needs to take place in the present.

[vibramrunner]

^Unless we get a period piece, written off by historians as folklore: Downton Abbey vs Godzilla!

(but no let's never do this and keep everything in the present)

[Xenogojira]

Okay...so Jordan did 70s with King Kong meets Apocalypse Now. So how about Rodan is set in the 80s and its Rodan meets...Top Gun? Ambiguously not-ambiguously homosexual romance with daredevil jet pilots vs. Rodan(s)!

I know you're just kind of joking, but on a serious note about timelines.... They need not to do any films based between Kong and G14. The regular person still did not know monsters existed till G14. Every future film needs to take place in the present.

It all depends on the setting, really. It could work if it all happened far from civilization. I had this idea of a "Journey to the Center of the Earth" styled movie, since Kong Skull Island introduced the Hollow Earth concept. Hiddleston, Larson and company could return for a quasi-sequel bridging K:SI and G:KotM.

[JesstrK]

I think it was mentioned on another thread, but someone help me out, wasn't it Guillermo Del Toro who mentioned that he would love to do a King Ghidorah origin film?

[RamshackleRanger]

I think it was mentioned on another thread, but someone help me out, wasn't it Guillermo Del Toro who mentioned that he would love to do a King Ghidorah origin film?

No, that was the director of Pacific rim uprising

[Pkmatrix]

Okay...so Jordan did 70s with King Kong meets Apocalypse Now. So how about Rodan is set in the 80s and its Rodan meets...Top Gun? Ambiguously not-ambiguously homosexual romance with daredevil jet pilots vs. Rodan(s)!

That's pretty much EXACTLY what i want. Not necessarily set in the '80s (though that'd be cool IMO), but if they ever actually do a new Rodan movie it SHOULD be pretty much "Top Gun with Kaiju". Rodan is the only one where you can have the human protagonist really get mixed up in the action by having it be a Fighter Pilot up against Rodan and whatever other flying beast they come up with.

I know you're just kind of joking, but on a serious note about timelines.... They need not to do any films based between Kong and G14. The regular person still did not know monsters existed till G14. Every future film needs to take place in the present.

Hm...no, I disagree on that point. For Godzilla, probably, but for the others it's not entirely necessary.

You could, picking up daveblackeye15's suggestion to set Rodan in the '80s, have it take place largely in the Soviet Union or China, for example. Most of the real action would be high up in the skies anyway (a Rodan movie is pretty much a dogfighting/fighter pilot movie), so just put whatever ground action there is someplace remote or someplace where the truth would just be covered up no matter how ridiculously large the results are (like how early in G'14 they covered up the MUTO's first and second rampages in Japan with earthquakes). The movie could end with the truth being laughed at by the general pubic as a wild UFO conspiracy theory.

Really, the whole Secret History element of the MonsterVerse gives a TON of room to work with and allows all kinds of crazy stuff.

And as for why the truth never comes out, you could make the explanation as simple as, "Well, until Godzilla and Hokmuto attacked Honolulu none of them had ever waltzed into a major city before." Which, actually, allows for a ton more variety in set pieces - anything set before 2014 has to take place in the wilderness or small out of the way towns, anything after 2014 gets to smash landmarks.

[miguelnuva]

Who does he know that craps over Rodan?

[JesstrK]

Who does he know that craps over Rodan?

Toho, for one.

[Kaijunator]

Another cool idea that could replace Rodan vs Megaguirus, is that there could be two Rodans and one of them dies by falling into a volcano, but the other is shown to have to survived in a post-credits scene or at the end. The post-credits scene, if it isn't showing the second Rodan, could show something about the next MonsterVerse film.

[codycameron09]

I would love it if Rodan and Mothra got solo films down the line, there is soo much potential.

[Gothicserpent]

As much as I'd want more solo kaiju films, I can see them getting super repetitive.

[Tohosaurus]

They could totally set movies in the past (distant past). If they go back a half-millennium to tales of monsters in the ocean (Kraken) that's easily considered lore today.

So how about an ancient Mothra epic?

[Mr. Yellow]

I'd kind of like to see something about what Monster caused the shipwreck that Randa survived in the 40's. Ebirah?

[RamshackleRanger]

I'd kind of like to see something about what Monster caused the shipwreck that Randa survived in the 40's. Ebirah?

Wasn't it Godzilla?

[Mr. Yellow]

How do we know this?