Godzilla (1998 film)/Trivia


 * Breakaway Pop Hit: Its soundtrack album - featuring the Wallflowers' cover of David Bowie's "Heroes", Jamiroquai's UK #1 single "Deeper Underground" and Puff Daddy's "Come with Me" - flew off the shelves.
 * Franchise Killer: The only other American Godzilla venture was the relatively-decent animated show.
 * Old Shame: Roland Emmerich has since regretted his decision to direct the film. However, he still takes pride in how much fun he says his audience still has in watching it.
 * Scully Box: Alluded to but not used. When Charlie Caiman is about to go live with his co-anchor, a woman who has a good six inches on him, he complains about needing something to match her height. He has to settle for hovering above his chair uncomfortably.
 * Star-Derailing Role: Maria Pitillo. It was supposed to be her big breakthrough role to major audiences, but her performance received lots of criticisms for being one of the reasons why the film failed to resonate and as a result, pretty much retired just a few short years later.
 * Matthew Broderick to a lesser extent, who's own career experienced a slump around this point; also counts as an Old Shame as he has since voiced his dislike for the film.
 * What Could Have Been: The original script for the movie had Godzilla being far more like his Japanese self and he was supposed to fight a shape-shifting monster called the Gryphon. Due to the financial success of Independence Day, however, TriStar decided that they wanted their own disaster movie to compete, and so hired Roland Emmerich to direct.