Thread:The King of the Monsters/@comment-831485-20150608143803/@comment-831485-20150727165551

The King of the Monsters wrote: We actually have a lot of information about that movie on this page: A Space Godzilla, however having an actual translation of the story now will be very helpful, so I'm sure that link will provide us with more detailed information we can add to this page.

And yes, all the links provided so far are helping, we (I) just haven't been able to really add all the information from them I'd like to yet. There's been a lot of other pages getting extensive work recently, so the unmade film pages aren't as busy as they were not long ago.

Thanks again for digging all this up for us! I really appreciate it. Thank you for the much needed answer here, and I will happily continue making this thread an informative as possible. And here's some more entries of interest:

WAR OF THE INSECT GODS (1978-1979) From this link: http://splitsider.com/2013/02/the-lost-projects-of-michael-odonoghue/  After "Saturday Matinee" fell through, Michael O’Donoghue left SNL and started his own studio called Project X and hired writers Mitch Glazer, Emily Prager, and Dirk Wittenborn to write with him. The four writers worked on a movie called War of the Insect Gods, about an earth invasion of giant mutant cockroaches. O’Donoghue wanted Bill Murray to play the lead, an exterminator named Deadly Ed, a role that sounds pretty similar to his part in "Ghostbusters". Here’s O’Donoghue talking to a reporter about casting Murray in 1979:  ''“Billy is who I want to play Deadly Ed. Cause he’s both a romantic lead and he’s a little sleazy. He looks like that exterminator kind of guy. And yet he’s a guy who can take on heroic proportions and look like an attractive American hero, which is what that range is. In fact, he is ideal for me Billy for what I want in that.”''  O’Donoghue and company originally wrote War of the Insect Gods as a TV movie for NBC, but NBC bosses didn’t care for the script and encouraged him to write something else instead, which resulting in O’Donoghue and this same trio of writers making the infamous Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video. After NBC nixed War of the Insect Gods, O’Donoghue started trying to adapt it into a feature film, but it was hard to get studios interested – possibly because he was insistent on making the whole thing in black and white so that it would feel “like a nightmare.”  SPACE KONG (1969)  In 1969, Merian C. Cooper, never short of ideas, imagined King Kong on an asteroid drifting in space. The idea of the asteroid was developed in the course of discussions on a draft which proposed comic book readers to get them back on Skull Island, Cooper rejected that idea because everyone knows that died Kong atop the Empire State Building. To include the character of Carl Denham in history, Charles Fitzsimons - producer and close friend of the Cooper family - offered to bring in a geriatric substance to counteract the effects of aging. The idea caught on in the brains of Cooper to finally become the river of eternal youth, a mystical source like the flame of life in She. Denham would have found the river that would explain why he has not changed in the space of a generation. In seeking a trick to modernize the story while keeping the key elements of the original that he resolved to locate events in the space, which would serve as an excuse to change the characters in one place larger and mysterious Skull Island. He imagined billions of planets that harbor life, some with civilizations that millions of years ahead of us and the possibility of the ultimate world lost in space, actually a small planet about the size of a large asteroid, divided into two distinct worlds on each of its sides: on one side, immersed in an eternal spring, a heavenly world of beauty and wonder, or sink the river of eternal youth and the other a prehistoric hell ruled by savagery, a chaotic world teeming with dinosaurs or the struggle for survival would be omnipresent and or hide the most amazing creatures: the reincarnation of King Kong. The latter was once again brought back to civilization to find death under fire from more sophisticated weapons in a similar situation in the final scene the Empire State Building, overcome by beauty as in the original film. Cooper and Fitzsimons thought they could do the film as soon as the legal imbroglio concerning the rights of King Kong would be clarified but they never had time. THE EIGHTH WONDER (1952)  Cinerama remake of KING KONG where a submarine goes inside a cave and finds an island that time forgot ruled over by Kong. This was going to be directed by Merriam C. Cooper and have special effects by Willis O'Brien. However, the man who invented the camera and was planning to build a special camera for the film, died. So did the project. THE BIG FREEZE (mid to late 1940's)  This concept was Charles Gemora's brainchild for a movie. This film, although it was left unmade, predated AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.It was about global warming freezing the world and prehistoric mammals like the Wooly Mammoth come back to life. Also, there was a prehistoric gorilla in this movie that gets defrosted and goes after the female lead. This idea never got made. All is left was concept art. THE ILLEGITIMATE SON OF KING KONG (1983)  With a title like that it has got to be a spoof. This project for Universal pictures, was going to be produced by Jennings Lang with a screenplay by Stafford Sherman. However, it never got made. To my guess, Dino Delaurentiis was going to do a sequel to his remake. Which was KING KONG LIVES (1986). Talk about deja-vu. THE DIRTY FILTHY SLIME (late 1980's)  No doubt dredged up as a result of 'The Blob' remake being made by Chuck ('The Mask') Russell around the same time. And no doubt dropped just as quickly when Russell's film took a nosedive at the box office. Little more I can tell you on this, apart from the fact that scriptwriter Kenneth J. Hall planned on making the killer slime a luminous green. Just so he didn't get accused of ripping anybody off, like.