Witch Mountain Director To Make A Giant Monster Flick For The Mouse

Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: Empire Online

Now that Andy Fickman has scored a hit with "Race to Witch Mountain", Disney has tapped the director to helm "Monster Attack Network", a "Men in Black" style action-comedy that will feature giant monsters instead of aliens.

"Monster Attack Network" is a re-working of the 2007 graphic novel, by the same name, that takes the action from a remote Pacific island, and moves it to America, where a top-secret organization protects us, Joe-schmo citizens, from monster attacks.

The effects-heavy project is set to be produced by Jason Netter from a script written by Scott Elder and Josh Harmon.

Does this one kinda sound familiar? Well, if you are a fan of Japanese monster movies, it should. The Heisei Godzilla films featured the anti-monster unit known as "G-Force", which was part of the JSDF. "G-Force" was created to protect Japan from "Big G" and his pals using all sorts of exotic weapons including two robot versions of Godzilla known as "MechaGodzilla."

Isn't it interesting that as soon as Toho stopped making giant monster films, just about everyone else in the movie business started?

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Written By: Ken Hulsey
Sources: Sci Fi / Hollywood Reporter / Avery Guerra

Disney has picked up the rights to "Monster Attack Network", a graphic novel published by AIT/Planet Lar in May 2007. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Jason Netter will produce the film through his Kickstart Entertainment company.

The adventure tale, written by Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman with art by Nima Sorat, is set on the picture-perfect Pacific island of Lapuatu, which is constantly being attacked by giant monsters, just like in the old Toho Godzilla films. There, a team of first-responders, like a rescue team, deal with the attacks and clean up messes afterwards. The team faces its biggest challenge when a shady industrialist shows up.

Yes, big business is far harder to deal with than one hundred-foot-tall monsters any day.

Does anyone else see the ironic symbolism here? Disney.....big business.....monster corporation?

Maybe its just me.....?