The Truth About Godzilla Fan Films

Great video Cole, and thanks for shouting out my work!

Wow dude I’m at a loss of words seeing my fanfilm come up. I really appreciate the compliments. I did not expect this, thank you. 🙏

"Living With Monsters" is my favorite. I hope to see many more fanfilms of the Big G.

I love the guy who made a trilogy of the Anime Trilogy Godzilla having massive anime fights with Ghidorah and Mechagodzilla and they're unironically better than the actual trilogy lol

I’m so happy that you mentioned Godzilla Apex! That fan-film is pretty underlooked throughout the fan-base with not many people talking about it. Which is a shame considering how amazing it is with how much effort was put into it.

As someone who was a writer on Godzilla Apex I appreciate the kind words

I feel as though over the years Toho has gotten a little more lenient towards fan films. The people who did “Godzilla vs Gigan Rex” and “Godzilla vs Megalon” short films started out making fan films before making official shorts for Toho.

Thanks for liking Godzilla Apex, it was a really tough project to tackle. Did nearly all the vfx for it lol

4:15 when you said “fan films could lead to confusion among consumers” it reminded me something that happened a few months ago, some older dude called our video game/movie store and asked if we had “Godzilla vs Ultraman 5” and of course most of us know that isn’t an official movie, i had to look it up and the full thing was up on YT

Zilla Vs Gorosarus, Zilla Vs Kong and Gigan rex are some great fan made animations.

There's a found footage fan film I saw that plays as a 1950 documentary, it's called living with monsters (Godzilla found footage)

Every single one of the videos he mentioned is in the description. Legend.

"Toho likely wants to protect the integrity of the Godzilla franchise."? Has Toho seen ALL MONSTERS ATTACK/GODZILLA'S REVENGE and SON OF GODZILLA? Those films did far more damage to the brand than the fan films, which were made by fans who have a lot of love and respect and reverence, did.

Hey thanks for talking about Apex! I helped work on it and I'm glad more people are starting to talk about it!

I did some of the cinematography on Godzilla Battle Royale (the crowd scene you showcase is my work, natch!). Billy poured his heart and soul into making that film with almost no prior experience in filmmaking and it's a testament to his creativity and imagination. Also much love for Kaiju Killer, that one actually came out in 2009!! I also shoot and edit the short films made by Dojo Studios at GFEST and can attest to the complexities of filming amateur tokusatsu - further exacerbated by our limited time, scope, and resources available to us each year for production. Still, one of the questions we get asked every year is why we don't make Godzilla shorts, and our answer is two-fold. First, (to us) it's more fun to play around in a sandbox that doesn't have pre-conceived notions on what characters should look like, act, or think. We draw inspiration from Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, etc, mix and match it to our own liking, and create our own lore and mythology! Secondly (and most relevantly), we don't want to get in hot water with Toho. Anyway, great video and keep it up!

Great video

and since much passion, dedication, and creativity is poured out in the creation of these fan-mades, despite the many constraints many are better than what studios produce.

Well from what if seen and know toho isnt actually again fan projects and films and most of the time even support them godzilla vs gigan rex as example, mostly its japans copyright system thats screwing thungs over, awseome video btw.

As a fan film creator myself, I really liked this video. Well edited. Maybe someday Toho will loosen up more

Great video! While I would love to see more fan Godzilla projects, I do see how much these cost to even make and the constant threat of TOHO striking their hard work down. Yet I think that maybe with time, more and more full-on Godzilla fan projects will be made because, like the big G himself, this fanbase has infinite potential.