Japan to make the next Godzilla film in 2016

The first ever Godzilla film had been made in 1954 by Japan – it was directed by Ishiro Honda. The film company Toho would now make the 30th Godzilla film and it would be released in 2016 in time to catch the 2020 Tokyo Olympics fever in Japan.
Toho had earlier indicated that its 2004 Godzilla film Godzilla: Final Wars - the 28th in the series - would be its last. But, encouraged by the success of Hollywood's latest remake directed by Gareth Edwards that raked in over $500m worldwide and a sequel is already planned for 2018, Toho decided to go in for another Godzilla in 2016. He wants to take advantage of innovations in computer graphics technology.
Not all Godzilla films have impressed – like the 1998 Hollywood version directed by Roland Emmerich. However, Gareth Edwards version, a co-production for Legendary Pictures and Warner Brothers, was released in May this year and it was a hit.
Toho, the Tokyo-based company which owns the rights to Godzilla, has not yet picked a director for its upcoming reboot. Of course, the work a beginning has been made and veteran producer Taichi Ueda is heading up the new project at Toho studios, which has launched the Godzilla Strategic Conference (Godzi-Con) - a committee aiming to reboot the Godzilla brand.
In the opinion of Ueda, the intention of Toho is to create Godzilla, a character that "will represent Japan and be loved around the world" by the time of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Incidentally, Godzilla is a fire-breathing, reptilian monster, is a combination of the Japanese words for whale and gorilla and owes its origin to a mutation caused by nuclear testing.