Thread:The King of the Monsters/@comment-831485-20150608143803/@comment-831485-20150612214111

"It Ate Cleveland" AKA "Godzilla vs Cleveland"

This 1985 project was to be an "Airplane" style spoof of giant monster movies, featuring an original dinosaur-like mutation. Unfortunately, Canon Films foolishly thought the name of Godzilla was public domain (because you know...most Americans in the eighties) and renamed the project, leading to a surprise visit from Toho's lawyers virtually the very next day, of the new title's reveal.

Interestingly, Canon tried to continue the project under it's original, non-Godzilla title, until 1988, just as the Canon company itself more-or-less went under. The following are two web-pages concerning the film's history:

http://originalvidjunkie.blogspot.com/2011/02/never-got-made-files-53-it-ate.html

http://www.clubdesmonstres.com/best/htm/godzvscl.htm