Director R. J. Kizer reads a copy of G-FAN magazine in 2007. Photo courtesy R. J. Kizer.
While looking through some of my old files, I discovered a few notes on the production of
Godzilla 1985 that director R. J. Kizer sent me around the time I interviewed him for G-FAN magazine in 2007. As I recall, none of this made it into G-FAN, and while I always intended to do something with it, other projects kept coming up and needed my attention. So I'm reproducing those notes below. Enjoy!
June 8, 1985 - Breakfast
meeting with Tony Randel. Set to meet at Nick's Restaurant at corner of
Westwood and National. Nick's was closed. Didn't open until 11:30. We go to
Hamburger Hamlet at National and Sepulveda. Tony offers me the "chance for
immortality."
June 28, 1985 - My last day
as film editor on "A Dollar a Day," later released as "Planet
Rage."
July 1, 1985 - I watch
"Godzilla, King of the Monsters"
July 2, 1985 - I watch
"The Philadelphia Experiment" (Tony has some extra footage from that
film that he wants to use in "Godzilla, 1985")
[[July 2 -- ADR programming
of Japanese sequences begun]]
July 8, 1985 - I officially
start work on "Godzilla, 1985" Casting starts; casting director =
Danny (Goldman)
July 24, 1985 - Pre-light
Stage One, Raleigh Studios; 6:30 pm Dinner meeting with Raymond Burr at Le
Mondrian Hotel, Sunset Blvd
July 25, 1985 - 1st day of
shooting -- all shots involving Raymond Burr
July 26, 1985 - 2nd day of
shooting -- rest of the shots
July 27, 1985 - 3rd day of
shooting -- Dune Creek Ranch, 6238 Bonsall Drive, Malibu (camera truck gets
lost, we don't start shooting until close to sunset)
July 29-30 -- ADR at Ryder
Sound, Vine Street, Hollywood
Aug 8-9, 1985 -- Final Sound
mix -- Ryder Sound, Vine Street, Hollywood
August 23, 1985 -- Theatrical
release
Cast:
"Professor
Hiyashida" Yosuke Natsuki (English voice = Paul Wilson)
"Goro Maki" Ken
Tanaka (English voice = Tony Plana)
"Naoko Okumura"
Yasuko Sawaguchi (English voice = Lara Cody)
"Hiroshi Okumura"
Shin Takuma (English voice = Andy Goldberg)
English dialogue for Japanese
sequences = Lisa Tomei and Tony Randel
American scene script = Straw
(Weisman)
