Talk:List of unmade monster films/@comment-831485-20160406011851

There is some doubt to "Star Godzilla" being an actual 'thing' or not, thanks to a host of April Fools gags and fan-made web-videos of late, BUT an ad was indeed run in Variety by a Hong Kong film outfit, and here's what Keith Aiken of Sci-Fi Japan had to say on the matter, which sums up the situation better than I could:

''As was mentioned in the Steve Ryfle quote, the Hong Kong film company First Distributors Ltd. ran an ad in a May 1980 issue Variety announcing some future movies they would be making in the early 1980s. STAR GODZILLA was one of the films shown in the ad, and when Toho saw the listing they put a stop to First Distributors' plans. As far as I know, Toho stepped in before anything was done beyond that one ad.'In 1998, the website Stomp Tokyo ran a STAR GODZILLA 'review" as an April Fool's Joke. They give a big hint it's a joke, and the photos used in the review came from INFRAMAN and the John Cusack/Demi Moore comedy ONE CRAZY SUMMER (which has a scene were Bob Goldthwait gets stuck in a Godzilla costume). SUMMER came out in 1986, several years after STAR GODZILLA got shut down by Toho, which would have made it impossible for First Distributors to have used that footage.'The Godzilla suit is even shown on the poster for ONE CRAZY SUMMER... 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:One_crazy_summer.jpg'I don't know (or really care) who made the STAR GODZILLA "trailer" but it's a fake. Somebody just cobbled together footage from several different movies, including (once again) ONE CRAZY SUMMER. That's it.  Ultimately "Star Godzilla" was an unauthorized project that was stopped by Toho before First Distributors Ltd could move forward, and hence why I did not include it within the main section of Unmade Godzilla / Toho films; a similar situation to "It Ate Cleveland" even if that unmade film was meant as its own original movie Kaiju, regardless of the idiotic renaming to "Godzilla vs Cleveland''". The fan films and hoaxes since then are based off this actual incident.