Antrodemus /Epantarius giant Allosauroid "Godzilla" concept

Around the time that the original "Stargate" movie hit the theatres and then just after "Independence Day" went to video, circa 1996, rumors swirled that Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin had secured a deal with Japan's Toho Pictures through the hard negotiation producer and distributor Henry G. Saperstein to do what would become their 1998 "Godzilla" in New York film. Rumor had it that then-concept designer and now movie director Patrick Tatopoulos would have the inside track to come up with a new, improved, all new "Renaissance" conceptual design for "Godzilla."

Another rumor floating around "Tinseltown" was that Jan De Bont was also going to make an American Godzilla and that Stan Winston himself would be designing that "Gojira."

Drawing Godzilla for a paycheck was a "Bucket List" goal of mine, so I started messing around with a number of dinosaur theropod conceptual designs before realizing that the most similar known family of dinosaur theropods that resembled Godzilla's facial aspect with that "Thinnish" jaw, would be the largest of the four-fingered (Just like the Toho "Gojira," Kaiju) Aubelosaurids--but not the Carnotaurus genus.

But I never could complete a network path to the offices or lunch tables of Mr. Saperstein, De Bont, Emmerich or Devlin.

"Godzilla" 1998 was eventually based upon the anatomical foundations that Patrick Tatopoulos utilized to develop a Kaiju predicated upon a gigantic Galapagos marine iguana. I never was able to get my foot in the Emmerich and Devlin doors. My life sucked. I could draw "Gojira's" and their little "Zilla" buddies in my sleep.