Movies & TV

I'd make it a satire and have play out it in real-time. Godzilla never appears "live", only in news videos on people's phones and laptops and TVs. The entire movie is about how Wall Street bourgeois and their PMC minions are trying to cash in on the disaster. Godzilla meets Don't Look Up meets My Dinner With Andre.

A further thought, this idea would work equally well without official Godzilla. Probably better because the budget could be a lot smaller if you didn't have to pay licensing rights, putting this within indie-studio territory. Just make up some new big lizard monster destroying urban Japan, the audience will understand the reference.

Further further thoughts: since it would play out in real-time, the characters wouldn't have any downtime, they'd be on their phones more or less continuously, trying to arrange financial shenanigans. Half the movie could be one-sided conversations in taxis and ubers. A clever enough script could reduce the need for big office sets.

Further further further thoughts: have the entire movie set in real-time just outside the entrance to a reasonably-fancy-design office building in what's passed off as New York. Have the entire movie be from the perspective of some proletariat person listening to all these PMC assholes conspiring and arguing and backstabbing and gossiping as they come and go to/from the building. I'm thinking it could be someone on the building's janitorial staff waiting for their late bus. This would put the whole concept into student-film-budget territory. Of course to make this sort of thing work you need a really solid script. But I could see it working.