Sweet!!
I'll second your "HELLS YEAH!!", and raise you an "Is it March yet??" O0
I dug the book, looking forward to the movie :bd:
I read somewhere that Spielberg took out all the self referential material from the book. Not that it was super important, but, it was a nice little touch (amongst all the other cultural Easter eggs I expect to remain).
Might listen to this on the way to Florida this weekend.
Dunno, I went from Gus levels of loin-moistening to lukewarm on this.
Understandable that things need to change from the book but ever new trailer they've posted up seems to have it moving further and further away from the source material.
I heard from a source of a source (supposedly working on the film) that the Iron Giant will be fighting not only Mechagodzilla, but also Gigan. And, somewhat confusingly, that the MechaG will be "Kiryu" -- who isn't a villain like Gigan, but rather a redeemed heroic 1954 Godzilla turned into a cyborg.
Meanwhile! -- Jenny Nicholson (the cute satirist from... is it Screen Rant or Screen Crush, can't recall...) flings at least two levels of sarcasm, maybe three, with "RPO For Girls".
More Toho Kaiju news from the film.
1.) Mechagodzilla is indeed confirmed, and is indeed Kiryu (i.e. MechaG3 from the Millennium series). This baffles me, but after all the film and book are using the characters ad hoc (not in any real context with each other), so eh.
2.) The Iron Giant wasn't in the book, and replaces Ultraman (the original one not any of the sequels), who while not a Toho Kaiju per se has close connections through Eji Tsuburaya (the guy who invented Toho's man-in-suit technology).
3.) Reportedly other kaiju in the film include Gigan (as previously heard) but also King Ghidora, Megalon, and Godzilla himself (though I haven't heard if the designs are based on any specific suits. One might suppose from this mix that they'll be referencing the two late Showa Era films which featured all those creatures, G vs. Megalon and G vs. Gigan, aka Godzilla on Monster Island).
4.) Also Gamera.
5.) Also "Clover", the original Cloverfield monster.
This means Warner Brothers at least secured the rights for using the Toho kaiju at least once. It does not necessarily mean WB secured the rights to use those characters in Legendary's Monsterverse, but that isn't impossible. (I don't know who really holds the rights to using Gamera right now, but I suspect Toho finally acquired them because he's in the upcoming street-level Toho kaiju-movie game CITY SHROUDED IN SHADOW.)