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‘Godzilla’ Cosplay So Cool Your Head Will Explode
Enter “Project: Nautilus”, Sean Sumagaysay’s year-long project that would result in the most astounding Godzilla cosplay ever stitched together.
The costume was built leading up to the Puerto Rico Comic Con, which has sine come and gone.
Sumagaysay, a lifelong Godzilla fan, delivered on his promise to unveil his epic cosplay at the convention. Below are shots from the event displaying his interpretation of the new Godzilla, in theaters now.
Since my childhood (finally 2 decades old, I guess that counts lol), I have been a longtime Godzilla fan starting with the Raymond Burr cut at the age of 3. As a 7yr old & already knowing how the Godzilla films worked their magic, I’ve always had the fantasy of actually being the guy inside the suit. I used to make claws, feet & dorsal fins out of construction paper with a former cousin of mine.
But at the beginning of high school I have since abandoned that part of creativity and focused on my drawing skills as a hobby & future career, and have greatly improved as of today. (for those who haven’t, you can check out my art here: http://seansumagaysay.deviantart.com/)
Last year, I became inspired by Jacob Baker’s Hyper Godzilla suit and read more into it at http://becominggodzilla.com/, I saw how easy it was to make a Godzilla suit with the proper resources. So when Legendary’s Godzilla was officially revealed to the public at Comic Con 2013, it then came to me: What better way to celebrate the return of the beast than to make my first costume based on the new flick?
and so, Project: NAUTILUS was born.
A contemporary reimagining of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Herbert West: Reanimator is on the way, and Deadline has unveiled the first look at the new Herbert West and the pathologist drawn to his orbit.
Adam Simon (The Haunting in Connecticut, “Salem”) and Tim Metcalfe (The Haunting in Connecticut, Kalifornia) penned the script. The original screenplay and storyline come from Jade Sandberg Wallace.
Michael Grossman (“The Originals”, “Pretty Little Liars”) directs.
The new images introduce star Joseph Morgan (“Vampire Diaries“), who plays “brilliant surgeon and scientist Herbert West, who is obsessed with creating a serum to reanimate the dead.” Katie Cassidy (Speed Demon) stars opposite as the pathologist with a troubled past who joins his efforts.
Together, they prove that conquering death may be the ultimate sin against life itself.
The film’s official synopsis: “As a child, Herbert West watches his father Peter reanimate his dead mother Judith in a secret basement lab — only for Judith to mortally wound Peter and nearly kill Herbert before Peter shoots her. The trauma leaves its mark on Herbert, but so does one final image: his mother’s finger, twitching after death. Thirty years later, Herbert West is a brilliant, secretive surgeon still chasing his father’s obsession.
“Pathologist Kate Locke arrives in town and is drawn into his orbit — first through a spark at a hospital fundraiser, then through his secret lab, where he reveals a serum capable of reanimating severed tissue. Kate, hiding a dark past of her own, is thrilled rather than horrified, and moves into West’s mansion to work alongside him. Their early experiments on a cadaver succeed only briefly. West concludes that dead tissue is the problem — they need something fresher.”
Supporting cast includes Scott Aiello, Ira J Amyx, Randall Newsome, Emma Reinagal, James D. Bryce, Kathryn A Bentley, Jack Lancaster, Amy Holland Pennell, John Pierson, Mindy Shaw, Eric Dean White, Tristan Wilder Hallet, Adrienne Lamping, Aaron Crippen, and Drew Patterson.
Makeup artist Jeff Lewis (“Star Trek: Voyager,” “Star Trek: Enterprise”) and cousin Roger Lewis are heading the production via their newly established Woodlake Entertainment.
Lovecraft’s short story, first serialized in Home Brew magazine in 1922, is the first among his works to mention the fictional Miskatonic University. It was most famously adapted into a 1985 horror movie from Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West.
Herbert West: Reanimator is set in Alton, Illinois, where production is now underway.
Herbert West: Reanimator. Photo credit: Matt Lief Anderson
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