What kaiju should have their own standalone and why?

"A new Gamera as done in the 90's."

Isn't there a new Gamera coming out, though?

"Is there confirmation of Shin 2?

To the best of my knowledge, the next Godzilla Toho film is going to be an anime and presumably not connected to Shin."

True. We'll have to wait and see. I hope they do a follow-up to "Shin" and bring the original makers back, as I'd just love to see what else they have in store.


"Anyway, I think Biollante would make a great stand alone. Super easy to tie all sorts of environmental metaphors into that one."

Biollante would be interesting, but I'd rather they use a different theme outside of environmentalism, just because it's kind of been recycled so many times in various Toho movies and with varying degrees of success (if you're interested in environmental horror, a really good one to watch is "The Last Winter").

"This would definitely make a good story."

I'm glad you like the idea. The cool thing with it being in space is the idea of visiting other planets and its various inhabitants, seeing their technologies and architecture. If done well, it could make for an interesting experience.

"Anguirus: Maybe

This is a tough one to imagine, but to not play too much into a cliche's Monster vs Monster Movie, one unique way would be to portray a journey with a family of Anguirus in the ancient past attempting to migrate or journey to a new land for whatever reason animals would move and encountering other Kaiju's along the way. It would play more like a nature Documentary I suppose. IF we decide to say that Anguirus walked along side ancient man, then there would be at least an argument that he befriend one of these men. This plot however is a bit of a stretch when taking into consideration the size of humans compared to even a Kaiju of Anguirus's size. In short though he doesn't have much going for him in terms of supernatural abilities (Aside from digging and rolling), He's basically a glorified Ankylosaurus."



A nature documentary but with Anguirus and other kaiju....that would be pretty interesting. Another alternative was if they took the GMK approach and made Anguirus into a full-on demon, giving him a more metallic and evil look, kind of like that studded spiked ball thing in the movie "Event Horizon" but as an actual creature, with people stuck onto the end of his spikes, making him like a walking medieval torture device or something.



"Gigan: Yes

It would be neat to see Gigan's conception from whatever planet he came from and the people who captured or created him, (Some considered the Kaiju a cyborg). To see, in a similar plot as mentioned between Ghidorah and Space Godzilla, An Army of Gigans being used in battle against two warring planets in a far off solar system would be interesting. The plot may not focus on Gigan itself, but a reveal of many different prototypes would help explain the multiple version's we've seen come to Earth over the years."


I like the idea of different prototypes and an army of Gigans. That would be cool to watch. Would he also work for cyberpunk? Has there ever been a kaiju film that is also cyberpunk?




"This, more so than Anguirus I could see Human's interacting and making friends with the creature. It's been stated that the scientist who discovered him and his Cyborg daughter were manipulating him with telepathy and that was the reason Titanosuarus was aggressive in the first place. A stand alone movie would explore the Scientists hunt for the creature as well as the premature death and revival his daughter. This plot would garner more sympathy towards the scientist and daughter as well as Titanosuarus as the trio fall into a downward spiral of tragedy after tragedy, before eventually becoming corrupt during the events of Terror of Mechagodzilla."


Could be interesting if done well. Part of me would want to see Titanosaurus be given a movie outside of Godzilla, though, Showa era or otherwise.


"Manda: NO

I have a hard time imagining this one. I just don't know enough about Manda, In what little appearances we get, to know it's personality, what it's capable of, or what it wants."


More the fault of filmmakers in general. Still, he's pretty cool, as he's the only notable kaiju (outside of that awful movie "D-Wars") that is a straight-up Asian dragon (at least, as far as I know). Plus, as far as I know, there's a surprising lack of snake-like creatures within the kaiju genre (if you were to focus specifically on Japanese kaiju movies rather than the tons of awful American movies such as "Boa", "Python" and the like. That also brings up a question - would those movies count as being "kaiju" movies, or would those qualify as "killer animal"?).


"In short, Most of these creatures seem to fall into plots that have already been explored in too similar of a way to garner a movie directly for them. But for a die hard fan it would be a welcome alternate telling of stories other franchises have already covered. Like Anguirus starring in "The Land Before Time"."

True, but one could always start from scratch with them in the way "GMK" and "Shin Godzilla" had. I mean, even 90s Gamera is a vastly different creature from what he was when he first started off as.