Dean Devlin and Roland Emerich had plans of doing a trilogy featuring their computer generated mutant iguana take on the Japanese monster king. But those plans pretty much ended with the low performance and less then stellar reviews for "Godzilla" when it came out in summer of 1998. Just before the film's release, a story treatment for the proposed sequel was written by Tab Murphy, who had been responsible for the writing the animated features "Brother Bear", "Atlantis the Lost Empire" and the 1988 bio-pic of anthropologst Dian Fossey "Gorillas in the Mist".

In the treatment, the last surviving Babyzilla, seen in the 1998 film's closing sequence, leaves New York after coming into contact with Dr. Niko Tatopoulos and similar to the spin-off cartoon series, mistakes the human for its parent. The new Godzilla or GINO (Godzilla In Name Only, as many fans lovingly refer to as it) heads for a pacific island filled with various mutations and grows up to produce a brood of its own, which they quickly grow up to become Teenzillas. Only two types of the monster island inhabitants are gone into detail in the treatment, first being a massive Blue Whale mutant three times its normal size which Dr. Tatopoulos and cohorts see on their way to the island. And secondly the film's main nemesis, a Megaguiras type beast with the unfortunate name of Queen Bitch, and her colony of Insectoid servents/offspring.

When the military wipes out the new GINO brood, with the exception of the little runt of the litter, Queen Bitch and her Insectoids are free from having any natural predators and soon multiply and swarm out for the city of Sydney, Australia. its here that the new GINO battles her in the film's climax with the support of the human characters. As mention aboved, many elements within the treament must have found their way to the animated spin-off series "Godzilla: The Animated Series"

(source: Monster Zero, who has the full story treatment to view on their site, and various interviews with Dean Devlin who briefly mentions "an insectoid enemy for the sequel")

This entry was written by Rafael C. Gonzalez