Omegazilla wrote:RIP to both. I don't care what anyone says I'd still love Bagan to appear, even if it is only in a video game. I heard he almost made it on Godzilla: Unleashed but even got screwed in that.
I always put Bagan under the heading "
Always the bridesmaid. Never the Bride." The demo-dragon from the late Seventies' attempted revival of Godzilla. To
Mothra Vs. Bagan where on top reviving the Queen of Monsters, introduced a new daikaiju. Plus the flick's action set on the Asian continent instead of Japan as usual. Top it off a mystical element which Toho seems to have never really gone too deep into when it came to the flicks featuring the Big-G. Then unlike many a pitched kaiju, Bagan even got a video game appearance where it was announced he would be showing up on the silver screen to butt heads with the Big-G. Other than Varan, I don't thing there's been a monster in the Toho stable that's had so many "
Close ,but no cigar moments." Although, while I'd love to see him get another chance at going live action in the upcoming Toho produced G-flicks. I think his time has come and gone. He's been built up a little too much over the years, and like George Lucas'
STAR WARS prequels, or Ridley Scott's
ALIEN prequels. Whatever the professional filmmakers would come out with would end up falling short of expectations.
Personally, I thought the best take on Bagan was Clint Lee Warner's epic fan-fic,
KOUMAJUTSU:The Coming of Bagan(
http://www.kaijuphile.com/fannest/fiction/koumajutsu_prologue.shtml). Which in many ways for me personally was the final word on the beast.
) i'd want that to be his look. The 95 design....eh. Just looks boring. The plot for the 95 film sounds nice with the whole "harbringer of the apocalypse " concept which fits the final big bad motive they planned to use for him. Also interested in seeing what Mothra and the Gotengo would have done in the film.
