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10-20-2004, 01:41 PM
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Posted on Wed, Oct. 20, 2004
'Godzilla' to Get Star on Fame Walk
Associated Press
TOKYO - Godzilla, the fire-breathing movie monster born in a nuclear accident, is joining Hollywood royalty with a star on the Walk of Fame.
A ceremony will honor the giant lizard in front of Hollywood Boulevard's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Nov. 29, the world premiere of "Godzilla Final Wars," Toho Pictures Inc. President Shogo Tomiyama said Wednesday.
The movie, the 28th in the series, will mark 50 years since the genetically altered dinosaur emerged from the sea.
Featuring a showdown with 10 monsters, old and new, bashing through tiny sets of Paris, New York, Shanghai and Sydney, it will be the last time Godzilla - played by an actor in a rubber suit - stomps through miniaturized sets before retiring.
"This movie will surprise and delight everyone, from longtime fans to first-time viewers," Tomiyama told a news conference.
Known in Japan as "Gojira," from a combination of the words for gorilla and whale, the monster first appeared in director Ishiro Honda's 1954 black-and-white classic.
It was roused from its undersea lair by a hydrogen bomb test - a story line that reflected fears of a nuclear holocaust after the United States tested an H-bomb at Bikini atoll in the early 1950s.
The actor in the rubber suit will be on hand for next month's ceremony, Tomiyama said.
Posted on Wed, Oct. 20, 2004
'Godzilla' to Get Star on Fame Walk
Associated Press
TOKYO - Godzilla, the fire-breathing movie monster born in a nuclear accident, is joining Hollywood royalty with a star on the Walk of Fame.
A ceremony will honor the giant lizard in front of Hollywood Boulevard's famed Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Nov. 29, the world premiere of "Godzilla Final Wars," Toho Pictures Inc. President Shogo Tomiyama said Wednesday.
The movie, the 28th in the series, will mark 50 years since the genetically altered dinosaur emerged from the sea.
Featuring a showdown with 10 monsters, old and new, bashing through tiny sets of Paris, New York, Shanghai and Sydney, it will be the last time Godzilla - played by an actor in a rubber suit - stomps through miniaturized sets before retiring.
"This movie will surprise and delight everyone, from longtime fans to first-time viewers," Tomiyama told a news conference.
Known in Japan as "Gojira," from a combination of the words for gorilla and whale, the monster first appeared in director Ishiro Honda's 1954 black-and-white classic.
It was roused from its undersea lair by a hydrogen bomb test - a story line that reflected fears of a nuclear holocaust after the United States tested an H-bomb at Bikini atoll in the early 1950s.
The actor in the rubber suit will be on hand for next month's ceremony, Tomiyama said.