You may not be aware of this, but 2013 is starting to look like the year of giant monster movies. Both Guillermo del Toro and Tim Burton have giant monster movies in the works titled Pacific Rim and Monsterpocalypse respectively, and there is another US attempt at a Godzilla movie coming that same year (or, possibly 2014 depending on which of the 517 random sources you’re looking at). Well, to keep up, Sony has bought the rights to the Japanese cult hit from 2007, Big Man Japan, a film about a man who can grow to 10-stories tall who takes over the duties of protecting Japan from giant monsters. Oh, and he pretty much just wears a diaper while performing said monster-fighting duties. And these montsters are weird as shit, one of which has an eyeball-penis it uses as a weapon.
Excited yet? I know I am.
Set in a world where monsters wreak havoc, there’s one man who can protect the citizenry: Big Man Japan, who runs the Department of Monster Prevention. Using electricity, he can grow to be 10 stories tall and fight off the most menacing of monsters. The problem is that he’s not very good at his job and often causes as much damage as he prevents. The people believe he’s a joke – and not nearly as good at the job as his father and grandfather were before he took over the family business.
Sony has tapped Fast Five‘s Neal H. Moritz to produce, and Clash of the Titans writers Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi to write the screenplay.
Unfortunately, America isn’t as progressive as Japan when it comes to putting monsters weilding giant eyeball penis’ as weapons to film, so this American adaptation is already going to be not as good. That being said though, if our version is even half as bat-shit crazy as this Japanese version appears to be, it still may be worth checking out – emphasis on the “may”.
Source: Deadline
Now, so you can experience some of the craziness youself and have your “WTF Moment” of the day, here is the trailer for the original Big Man Japan: