In light of the new Gareth Edwards film, we look back at the way in which the 1954 original Godzilla has been rebooted time and time again, to varying degrees of success.
Godzilla in 1954 and the Fantasy of Destruction
A mere nine years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki were wiped off the face of the earth, one of the top ten grossing films of 1954 featured an irradiated mythological beast utterly decimating Tokyo. We look back before the clutter of sequels, remakes and spin-offs and ask why Japan’s own nuclear nightmare was committed to celluloid.