Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Godzilla is known for his team-ups with other monsters nearly as famous as he is, but several exciting kaiju teams in his movies never got to pan out. Though he started out as the solo subject of 1954's Godzilla, the King of the Monsters developed a whole ecosystem of new monsters as his movies progressed, with many monsters forming teams in battle of some form or another.
The scrapped project was burdened with the mouthful of a title, Godzilla X Varan, Baragon and Anguirus: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. The script was later re-configured into 2001's Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. Mothra and King Ghidorah were determined by the studio to be more popular picks that could draw more attention to the film, meaning that Anguirus, Varan, and Baragon's Godzilla strike team would sadly never come to fruition.
6 Godzilla's Destroy All Monsters Team & King Kong King Kong nearly shared the screen with more than just Godzilla Despite the success of the first 1962 film to pit King Kong against Godzilla, the two wouldn't be back for a re-match until 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong. However, King Kong nearly appeared among the stacked cast of 1968's Destroy All Monsters, one of the most ambitious Godzilla projects ever planned at the time.
God's Godzilla had an incredibly bleak pitch, describing the downfall of humanity's dominion over the Earth as Jesus and Godzilla assaulted the planet with psychic attacks, massive tidal waves, and good old-fashioned giant monster destruction. The film was to end with Jesus ascending into heaven over the Egyptian pyramids as Godzilla formed into a sort of giant sphinx, revealing the future of humanity as horribly mutated creatures.
3 The Gargantuas Could've Teamed Up Against Godzilla Possibly marking Godzilla's second giant monster crossover While Kong vs. Godzilla presented the world with the first major crossover film between a Western monster and a Japanese Kaiju, a planned 1978 project almost did the same, albeit with a far more obscure property. The American and Japanese joint-effort production, tentatively titled U.S.