According to its complaint—filed in California federal court earlier today—Toho wants production on Colossal stopped immediately, along with unspecified damages.
Colossal isn’t scheduled to begin production until September, so there presumably aren’t any production stills to include in initial promotional materials. And “Godzilla” is kind of like “Kleenex”—technically a brand name, but used as shorthand for a whole range of products/nuclear metaphors. But isn’t there some sort of concept art they could be using in promotional materials instead of stills of a copyrighted character from a recent movie? Clearly, not a lot of thought went into that promotional email (note that Vigalondo’s name is also spelled incorrectly), but the Photoshopped poster and director’s notes show forethought and intent. There’s probably an opening in Voltage Pictures’ marketing department, is what we’re saying.
