Talk:List of unmade monster films/@comment-831485-20150612213825

"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 though the name of Godzilla was public domain (because you know...Most Americans in the eighties) and renamed the project, leading to surprise visits 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