Godzilla vs. Megalon

GIANT AGAINST GIANT... the ultimate battle!

Ok, so to start with, this movie wasn’t supposed to star Godzilla at all. This was going to be the new hero, Jet Jaguar vs. Megalon, but you know how these things work. Some more star-power was needed, so the script was hastily rewriten to include Godzilla and his buzz-saw wealding antagonist, Gigan.

Fun facts:

According to Teruyoshi Nakano, the Godzilla suit made for this film (known as the Megaro-Goji) was made in a week, the fastest featured Godzilla suit ever made to date.

Riding the coattails of Dino De Laurentiis’ big-budget King Kong remake, The poster art showed Godzilla and Megalon battling on top of the World Trade Center, despite the fact that no scenes were set in New York City.

Godzilla vs. Megalon was given a high-profile prime-time NBC network premiere in 1977, with an introduction and bumper segments by John Belushi in a Godzilla suit also used on Saturday Night Live.

(Thank you, wikipedia.)

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