Who could have an R rated film?

[Tarbosaurus]

I'd say a neat idea be the after effects of humans finding out publically how many titans/kaiju are out there and following a specific kaiju for one reason or another. Could go smaller scale and perhaps start with a young (whale size perhaps) kaiju who grows over the course of the film. Could also set it in the distant past and make it a period or ancient civilization piece. If treated as a disaster or horror film, R can work. Maybe a sorta-of-remake of Rodan from the 50s so you can have some creepy scenes with Meganulons.

[Mecha-SpaceGhidorah]

Well, any of them could, but that doesn't mean any of them should.

I think good R-rated kaiju films are doable, both serious and as comedies. The trick would be the execution.

This. A story not shying away from the horror of a kaiju attack, one that shows the death and destruction, even some serious blood (not necessarily gore, not necessarily not either) could be a very interesting concept.

It's been on record for about ten years now that Tarantino has a concept for a Godzilla film in his head, based around the idea that Japan would inevitably come to worship Godzilla as a god after he saves them time and time again. Depending on how he did it, I think that might be able to pass as a good R-rated Godzilla film.

I would love something like this. One of the most interesting, and completely unexplored concepts in Pacific Rim were the Kaiju Cults. I absolutely believe that if giant, literal physics-defying monsters showed up, they would be worshiped as gods by at least a small number of people and I wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being a sizable minority of humanity in the end. And I'm sure some of them would have less than pleasent world views based on the way their "gods" tramp across the globe. In such a world, especially in a Tarantino-esque film, I could easily see some such cults giving blood/human sacrifices to their kaiju god of choice. I could even see them as full on death cults, worshiping the death and destruction wrought by their gods, maybe even killing themselves as sacrifice and/or being in the path of destruction to be killed by their god some sort of twisted sacrament.

[kingkevzilla88]

A movie about the Blob could easily work in the monsterverse, just stick to the original story where came from a crashed meteor. Have it attacking a small town, and a Monarch team shows up to deal with it.

Since the Blob is attacking and devouring people, it would have to be R-rated. That way you could have all violence and gory you can get away with.

All that's assuming that the Monsterverse will be using more than King Kong, Godzilla and the rest of Toho's kaiju.

[Godzilla Vinyl Mania]

A War of the Gargantuas remake could definitely be an R.

[BlankAccount]

A War of the Gargantuas remake could definitely be an R.

Oh god!

[Tarbosaurus]

Maybe a remake of Rodan that included Megaguirus could work if one played up the horror aspect with meganulons and meganuera killing people as it make sense for a smaller monster to attack people. You can still have a big kaiju fight with lots of destruction with Rodan fighting Meguirus given their respective flying about is sure to cause massive shockwaves. For timing, one could set it in the distant past and also make it a period piece.

[BlankAccount]

Maybe a remake of Rodan that included Megaguirus could work if one played up the horror aspect with meganulons and meganuera killing people as it make sense for a smaller monster to attack people. You can still have a big kaiju fight with lots of destruction with Rodan fighting Meguirus given their respective flying about is sure to cause massive shockwaves. For timing, one could set it in the distant past and also make it a period piece.

That helmet with blood is what makes me think Rodan could have an R film if he got a solo spinoff.

[Tarbosaurus]

Maybe a remake of Rodan that included Megaguirus could work if one played up the horror aspect with meganulons and meganuera killing people as it make sense for a smaller monster to attack people. You can still have a big kaiju fight with lots of destruction with Rodan fighting Meguirus given their respective flying about is sure to cause massive shockwaves. For timing, one could set it in the distant past and also make it a period piece.

That helmet with blood is what makes me think Rodan could have an R film if he got a solo spinoff.

Helmet? Sorry I might be a bit behind on material released.

[Maritonic]

Maybe a remake of Rodan that included Megaguirus could work if one played up the horror aspect with meganulons and meganuera killing people as it make sense for a smaller monster to attack people. You can still have a big kaiju fight with lots of destruction with Rodan fighting Meguirus given their respective flying about is sure to cause massive shockwaves. For timing, one could set it in the distant past and also make it a period piece.

That helmet with blood is what makes me think Rodan could have an R film if he got a solo spinoff.

Helmet? Sorry I might be a bit behind on material released.

99.99% sure he was referring to the original.

[Tarbosaurus]

That helmet with blood is what makes me think Rodan could have an R film if he got a solo spinoff.

Helmet? Sorry I might be a bit behind on material released.

99.99% sure he was referring to the original.

Oh derp, my mistake.

[HillyHulk]

Maybe a movie about Hedorah. Play up the acidic part of his body so the tar could melt people in a pretty grisly fashion like some parts in Godzilla vs Hedorah did. Also, unlike his debut film, make it a more serious film similar to how the radioactive nature of Godzilla was handled in Gojira. I think it would be a pretty simple movie to make R rated (plot wise anyway).

[LegendZilla]

Mind if I made a thread as to which Kaiju generally speaking could use an R-rated film, not just confined to the Monsterverse?

[miguelnuva]

Make A R rated King Ghidorah film. Aliens are having a civil war and one side wins after created monsters and enslaves the losing side. Main character sees his family being beaten, raped ect and eventually creates King Ghidorah, Ghidorah goes out of control and destroys the rival monsters and the planet.

Movie ends with Ghidorah flying off into space and with his crackling sounding like evil laughs.

[PitchBlackProgress]

An R rated Rodan film would fit

[AbudJasemAlBaldawi]

Rodan, Hedorah, Destroyah are my best picks but honestly any kaiju would work in a well made R rated film. Toho just need some more balls to go there, they're already being more creative with their movies in Japan so I'd love for them to make or allow Legendary to make an R kaiju movie.

[PitchBlackProgress]

Spoiler:

that Mammoth DESERVES its own rated R movie

[Spuro]

^ The what?

[miguelnuva]

Spoiler:

that Mammoth DESERVES its own rated R movie

They can call it

Spoiler:

Big Wooly

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[PitchBlackProgress]

Spoiler:

that Mammoth DESERVES its own rated R movie

They can call it

Spoiler:

Big Wooly

.

I’d watch it

Thinking about it though, I think I see where Legendary is heading with the series-

Spoiler:

After nuking himself in King Of The Monsters, Dr. Serizawa myseteriously returns from the dead as a radioactive giant with a laser eye patch and Oxygen Destroyer in his hand

Kong and Godzilla could team up to fight him :^)

Let’s see an R-Rated movie about that, huh.

[Kaeyas]

I just don't see ANY Godzilla movie EVER getting an R rating simply for the fact that (as previously stated multiple times above) a very large portion of the audience is indeed children. However with that said, I DO believe you could make a kaiju movie with an R rating and it still be a great movie. I wouldn't want it just so we could hear people drop f-bombs and be able see "steamy procreation" scenes from them though. I would want it solely to show more of what actually happens to the people as well as the kaiju because let's face it. In THAT retrospect, ANY Goji or Toho movie could be/could have been an R if they showed in detail the deaths along with blood and violent wounds inflicted on and by various kaiju. If any of the Toho kaiju (or any other Kaiju for that matter) were real and someone made a movie out of multiple found footage sources documenting both the destruction/death of the city/populace as well as the fights between the kaiju themselves, I guarantee it would get an R rating. As far as kaiju who would fit the niche, pretty much any of them but at the top (IMO) Would be Godzilla himself for obvious reasons, King Ghidorah(he is a planet killer after all), Hedorah(it wouldn't have taken much to make G vs. H into an R rated horror flick plus by his very nature, Hedorah causes some pretty horrifying deaths), Destoroyah(a creature that's basically a walking Oxygen Destroyer..need I say more?) And then probably Megaguirus (and her brood..think the meganulons from Rodan but more graphic), perhaps Rodan (if he goes back to his roots and starts eating people again) and Gigan (only because he has sooo many ways to make other kaiju bleed and potentially chop them up into gory little pieces) but yeah any of them really. Even Gabara and Megalon...Minilla too ::Minilla enters a quiet village, trips over a goat and squashes some poor kid like a bug:: "oh no! Sorry fella! Didnt hurtcha did I?" He says as he peers down to the splattered remains that was once a human being. Yup even Goof- er Minilla can be a rated R superstar