Kaiju (film)

Kaiju is a science fiction film released on February 8, 2018, that was produced by Dude In A Hat Productions. The film stars Stephen Amell as its main character, Phil, who is an army soldier that is assigned to raise a baby creature known as a Kaiju. Kaiju in this world have been around since the 1950s, though no one knows where they came from, with most claiming they "just showed up one day".

Plot
Sometime in the 90s, a young boy is seen running through a city that is being ravaged by a large monster. The boy is picked up by a rescue helicopter, watching as the monster, known as a Kaiju, lets out a loud scream. An unknown amount of years later, the boy, named Phil, has grown up and has become a soldier. He is being briefed on the Kaiju, revealing that they first showed up in Japan in the 50s and no one knows where they came from. He is also told the names of a few Kaiju, including the Onibi, which is a large one that breaths fire, the Akkorokamui, which comes from the ocean, the Kitsune, which is a lot more fox or dog-like than the others, and finally the Oni. Phil cuts the woman talking off, revealing he knows quite a bit about the Oni, as it was the one that attacked his city as a child. He reveals that since then he's had a fascination with Kaiju and would kill to get up close to one, though he knows he can't since the Kaiju would kill him if he did.

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Cast

 * Stephen Amell as Philip "Phil" Woods
 * Gaten Matarazzo as Young Phil
 * Emma Stone as Professor Sasha Willaims
 * Ray Liotta as Commander William "Billy" Greene
 * John Boyega as Reginald "Reggie" Thomas

Production
The film is Dude In A Hat Production's most expensive movie so far, as it took several months to create the CGI for the Kaiju in the film. They wanted all the Kaiju to look monstrous, including the baby from the beginning. According to creators making the baby look destructive was the hardest part, as the human brain is hardwired to find babies cute. Almost all of the action scenes take place in a city, so it was even more expensive to render a city being destroyed by, as the producers put it, "a giant freaking lizard".

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