Before writers Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura fleshed out a screenplay, director Okawara began to devise a concept for the 1999 Godzilla film and the start of a new Godzilla series. Either by coincidence or intent, the film was to mirror The Return of Godzilla (1984), the starting point for the Heisei series, in one respect: it was going to focus solely on Godzilla versus the military.
The concept never got far, abandoned while it was still considered, by the director, to be a "vague premise". Eventually the concept changed a lot, focusing instead on an alien invasion involving the Millennian and a climax with the monster Orga. |