Godzilla (1998 film)
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| Directed by | Roland Emmerich |
| Written by | Roland Emmerich & Dean Devlin |
| Produced by | Dean Devlin |
| Starring | Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno |
| Music by | David Arnold |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Running time | 169 min. |
| Budget | US$ 125 million (estimated) |
Godzilla (1998) was a Sci-Fi film directed by Roland Emmerich and starred actor Matthew Broderick. It is very closely based on the Japanese film Gojira (1954) with the obvious change of the cause of Godzilla's mutation.
The plot of the film involves a giant mutated lizard roaming around New York City. The monster lays eggs inside Madison Square Garden which hatch into miniature, T-Rex-like creatures. This tended to make the film somewhat reminiscent of Jurassic Park, as the baby Zillas are reminisent of Velociraptors.
This movie is considered -particulary by the long time fans- to be inferior to previous film incarnations of the beast due to the drastic change in Godzilla's appearance as well as its mundane treatment.
The soundtrack to the 1998 version featured songs by such artists as Jimmy Page, Puff Daddy ("Come With Me"), and Green Day ("Brain Stew"). The song "Heroes" by the Wallflowers can be clearly in the heard in the background during a restaurant scene early in the movie. David Arnold's orchestral score provided the music for the rest of the movie, and roughly four minutes of it is included in the album.
The script called for two sequels yet despite the film becoming the highest grossing film of the year (when overseas' box offices, merchandise and video/dvd are factored into the final total), there are currently no known plans to make them. The movie did, however, find life in the animated Saturday morning television series, Godzilla: The Series.
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