Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster

Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster was a science fiction film and (Kaiju) giant monster film and Godzilla fan film directed by Stephen Stelmach Jr. and produced by Monster Pictures Studios that takes place in the city of Los Angeles on July 6, 2013. The film starred, Meng Wei, Sumiko Muto, Edwin Yau, Tressie Nicole, Dennis Hodapp, Med Heng, and Toshiya Agata. The giant monster film is heavily inspired from the 2008 monster film, Cloverfield and the Japanese giant monster films, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., and Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. It was scheduled to premiere in 2014 months after the release of the 2014 American Godzilla film on the 60th anniversary year of the Godzilla franchise, but delayed because of Stephen Jr.'s minor health problems after 4-23-2014. The film is now officially cancelled due to frequent delays and the plot structures and elements were saved and repurposed into a new Godzilla fan film, "Godzilla vs Baragon" of the Daikaiju Cinematic Universe.

The giant monster film was considered as a low-budget independent film and a fan film since Stephen Stelmach Jr. is a fan of Japanese giant monster films of Godzilla, Gamera, and Ultraman. Since the film is low-budget, Guerella stlye filming is used when filming on location since, Stephen could not afford film permits to film at the locations that are suggested in the script because of the small budget he has. The only filming locations for Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster that permission is granted is the Robotechas Lab at L.A. Mission College for the filming of Godzilla Prediction Center scenes. Some of the film is shot in the city of Burbank since the city of Burbank allows hand-held cameras and film equipment without a permit.

Plot
On July 5, 2013 at the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant a giant monster appears & partially starts destroying the power plant. The monster also destroys the freeway and the U.S. Military fleet at Camp Pendelton in north San Diego County.

July 6, 2013, In the city of Los Angeles, Kevin Parker lives in the Hollywood Hills. Kevin sees the news broadcast on TV about the giant monster that attacked the power plant in San Onofre. He heads to work at the newspaper office in downtown Los Angeles. Godzilla destroys the seaside town of Malibu. Later, Kevin gets associated with the Godzilla Prediction Center and met, Paula Smith & Ivan Hicks.

They are tracking and doing research on the giant monster. Later,the giant monster aka. "Cloverfield Monster" starts destroying Los Angeles forcing Mayor, James Levinson to make large-scale mandatory evacuations of the city. Susan does her TV news report at Los Angeles City Hall as the Cloverfield Monster destroys downtown L.A. Kevin saves Susan from the monster gaining respect for her safety romantically.

Cloverfield Monster continues it's destruction of the city when Godzilla approaches the city to fight the monster. Godzilla starts fighting the Cloverfield Monster while much of the city is being destroyed by the giant monsters. Susan did her TV news report during giant monster battle, Susan gets knocked to the ground when debris from the buildings fell on her. Kevin saves her again and she is still alive. Paula and Ivan view the giant monster battle from the Griffith Observatory in Griffith Park.

Later, Godzilla kills the Cloverfield Monster at Los Angeles Union Station, destroying the whole building completely. The city was left in ruins by Godzilla and Cloverfield Monster. Kevin and Susan kiss each other and fell in love romantically, Godzilla starts destroying the military command center at Santa Monica Airport. Godzilla marks his territory by breathing his atomic fire breath on the destroyed city.

Inspirations of scenes in GxCM
Most of the live-action scenes were inspired from other giant monster films like, the Godzilla Prediction Center scenes were inspired from the Kaiju film, Godzilla 2000. The monster battle scenes were inspired from other giant monster films, the scene of Godzilla killing the Cloverfield Monster at L.A. Union Station was inspired by the scene in Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., where Godzilla fought Mechagodzilla at the Japanese capitol building in Tokyo, the other monster battle scenes were all inspired from the Kaiju films, Godzilla 2000, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., and Godzilla Mothra King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack. The scene of the Cloverfield Monster attacking the Metrolink train was inspired from the 1954 Kaiju film, Godzilla and the 1962 Kaiju film, King Kong vs. Godzilla. Scenes of the Cloverfield Monster destroying the city were inspired from the Kaiju films, Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S., Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, and other giant monster films. The military command center scenes were inspired from the 1998 Godzilla film. Also, the scene of the Metromedia Building getting hit by missiles and missed the Cloverfield Monster was inspired by a scene in the 1998 Godzilla film when missiles miss the monster's head and hits the Chrysler Building in New York. The scene of Godzilla attacking the town of Malibu is inspired from Godzilla 2000 when Godzilla attacks the Japanese city of Nemuro.

Development
Back in the summer of 2010, Stephen was watching YouTube videos of short films of Godzilla fighting the Cloverfield Monster while in pre-production of "Two-Headed Giant Monster Attacks San Diego" and, he thought of an idea to have a giant monster fight the Cloverfield Monster like, Godzilla. Stephen has been dreaming up that idea since the movie Cloverfield released in theaters on January 18, 2008 and throughout his childhood years as the giant monster film of his dreams that he always wanted to make. By September 2010, Stephen saw the giant monster film, Cloverfield on TV and saw the Cloverfield Monster's movements.

By the summer of 2011, Stephen started to watch Godzilla fan films on YouTube and concieved the first working title of the film, "Godzilla, King Kong and Cloverfield Monster Attacks Los Angeles" and came up with a first plot idea with the concept film, but no human characters were not introduced yet. By August, 2011, Stephen got a 12 inch tall Godzilla figure to use for the film but, with conceptual idea for the film, Stephen has seen the film Cloverfield, but he thought there was no such thing as a Cloverfield Monster figure to use for the film, until he saw a video on YouTube showing reviews of the figure by Godzilla fans on YouTube and the Cloverfield Monster figure exists, and at the same scale as the miniature city and the Godzilla figure.

By September 12, 2011, Stephen has finally got the Cloverfield Monster figure for the film, but since he got the figure, he changed the working title to "Godzilla vs. The Cloverfield Monster" and dropped King Kong from the film's title because there was already a Godzilla fan film made by Kyle Joe in Farmington, New Mexico called, "King Kong vs. Godzilla". Since Stephen went with the new second working title of the giant monster film, the setting for the film is still taking place in the city of Los Angeles. Stephen could not come up with human characters on his own for the film, he decided to get Rigo Cavarrubias to co-write the film to come up with human characters film. Rigo agreed to help co-write the film and the pre-production of "Godzilla vs. The Cloverfield Monster" has greenlighted on October 4, 2011.

On October 4, 2011, Stephen Stelmach Jr. and co-writer, Rigo Cavarrubias initialized the concept plot of the giant monster film of when it takes place and where it takes place. Rigo came up with most of the character names, traits of the character and, occupation. Rigo wanted Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster to be taking place in New York City but, Stephen has choosen the giant monster film to take place in Los Angeles because the city has a mix of suburbs, freeways, and high-rise office buildings and it's a good city for a giant monster to attack. Stephen came up with the name for the second main character, Susan Hattori and made her Japanese American while Rigo only came up with the gender, traits, and occupation of the second main character. During the pre-production on October, 2011 and November, 2011, the last working title of the giant monster film was, "Godzilla vs. The Cloverfield Monster". Stephen dropped the word "The" in the title because it did not made any sense for the film, so he decided leave it simpily as, "Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster" and it became the official main title of the film through the whole production and release.

Stephen mostly came up with the plot  and wrote the outline while Rigo only came up with some plot idea at the beginning of the film with the monster attacking the nuclear power plant in San Onofre. Skyler Lowe wanted to play as Paula Smith, but she was too flaky. By November 1, 2011, the outline was finished.

Pre-Production
At the beginning of November, 2011, the screenplay has started and continued into December, 2011 with a "was to be started" production date at December 22, 2011. On that date, Nancy Serrano wanted to play as Susan Hattori, but one week later, she did not want to do it and got too flaky.

One month later past January, 2012, casting calls were underway at LA Mission College with actors and actresses wanting to play as two main characters and other supporting characters, but did not go very well. Screenplay was still in progress.

On March, 2012, Stephen got an actor as Kevin Parker while Stephen is making casting calls for an actress to play as Susan Hattori. There were numerous actresses wanting to play as Susan Hattori but failed because of busy schedules of school and work at Mission College in the past one month. Jasmine Bonner accepted the role of Paula Smith and Daniel Valles accepted the role of Ivan Hicks, but no filming of them in the movie only rehearsals until June, 2012 because of no location was found for the Godzilla Prediction Center scenes to film in.

On June, 2012, Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster was put to hiatus from June 20, 2012 to August 5, 2012 because of no PCI card in computer for capturing scenes and lack of budget needed for the miniature city construction for the film.

The giant monster film resumed production on August 5, 2012 with a new PCI card in the computer. October, 2012, no solid actress for Susan Hattori that time. By the beggining of November, 2012, the Robotechas club at Mission College is a good film location choice for the Godzilla Prediction Center scenes to film, but it was not filmed there until July, 2013, because there were no solid actors needed for the roles of Paula Smith and Ivan Hicks at that time.

By January, 2013, the actor playing as Kevin Parker started to get too flaky and decided not to be in the film anymore. Screenplay was finished on January 18, 2013.

Filming (Production)
By Mid-January, 2013, Stephen went on Craigslist and Actor's Access to get solid actors in the giant monster film, because the previous actors and actresses at LA Mission College were too flaky to be in the film.

Filming offically started January 19, 2013 with the establishing shots of the GPC office building, Los Angeles City Hall, TV Station and city footage. By the end of January, Med Heng accepted the role as Secretary, Vanessa Nakagawa.

By early February, 2013, Dennis Hodapp accepted the role as Mayor, James Levinson. By February 16, 2013, the second day of filming happend with the filming of the first exterior city hall scene at the Van Nuys Municipal Building as LA City Hall with Dennis Hodapp and Med Heng.

On March 8, 2013, Meng Wei accepted the role as Kevin Parker. By mid-March, 2013, most of the interior city hall scenes are filmed at LA Mission College in one day as the third day of filming. Also the fourth day of filming of a scene at the film's ending is filmed at the Griffith Observatory in Griffith Park.

By March 23, 2013, Sumiko Muto accepted the role as Susan Hattori starting with an audition and rehearsals of her news reporting scenes. By the last Thursday of March, the fifth day of filming is Susan Hattori's first news reporting scene was filmed at his residence in Van Nuys, because it will be too impossible to film at that actual location in San Onofre and it was too far to get over there. So it was filmed in front of green screen with a miniature background added.

By the first weekend of April, Susan Hattori's last news reporting scene was to be filmed at the Griffith Observatory, but it was failed because the production crew was kicked out by security for moving people out of the way for filming. The romantic scene, Susan Hattori's last news report, and last scene was filmed at a different location in Griffith Park close to the Griffith Observatory during the second weekend of April, 2013.

Through the rest of April, 2013, Sumiko did most of her scenes but, it did not look good because it was too rushed because of two reasons, Sumiko was about to be booked for another role in a Japanese drama film and the second reason, Stephen was worried about the crew was kicked out of filming locations frequently by police officers and security guards for filming without permission. As a result, those scenes will have to be reshot because of these two reasons and they do not look very good at all.

By May 4, 2013, Susan Hattori's fourth news reporting scene was filmed in Burbank and the Godzilla Prediction Center truck scenes were filmed in Van Nuys. By May 5, 2013, most of the scenes of Susan Hattori were finished except for her three scenes at the Griffith Observatory. During the month of May, 2013, a few miniature scenes were filmed.

By June 22, 2013, Tian Wang accepted the role as Andrew Fujioka, a TV news anchor in the giant monster film. By June 24, 2013, Tressie Nicole accepted the role as Paula Smith in the giant monster film as well.

By June 30, 2013, a reshoot of the scenes with Kevin Parker and Paula Smith was done at the Griffith Observatory as the 14th day of filming. On July 2, 2013, Edwin Yau accepted the role as Ivan Hicks.

By July 5, 2013, Sumiko Muto is sceduled to come back on July 14, 2013 at the Griffith Observatory for her scenes as Susan Hattori along with Kevin Parker, Paula Smith, and Ivan Hicks. By July 14, 2013, all of the Griffith Observatory scenes were filmed in one day in the late afternoon.

On August 4, 2013, the reshoot of the Godzilla Prediction Center truck scenes were scheduled to be filmed on that day but, it was changed to the reshoot of the scene of Kevin Parker finding Susan Hattori in the rubble of a destroyed building. The reason was because, the actor playing as Ivan Hicks was not available in the afternoon at the time of the reshoot. The miniature city of Los Angeles was still in progress at that time.

By August 11, 2013, filming of another office building lobby scene at 15720 Ventura Blvd in Encino, reshoot of Godzilla Prediction Center truck scenes, and the reshoot of Susan Hattori's first news reporting scene was filmed in the morning from 7 AM to 10 AM. When the scenes were played back after filming, the playback started to lag. The reason was, the camera was broken.

Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster was put to a one month hiatus from August 11, 2013 to September 7, 2013 because the camera was broken and had to wait one month for funding needed for the new camera. By September 8, 2013, Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster resumed production but, on the new camera, when the scenes shot on August 11th played back, it still lagged. As Stephen tries to fix it, the mini DV tape broke and the scenes are permanently gone. Because of this, the three scenes will have to be reshot, in which will have to go through a huge process to bring back Sumiko Muto to do these scenes again.

By September 22, 2013, the last of the office building rooftop scenes were finished and was a success when the scenes played back smoothly on the new camera.

Replacement of Sumiko Muto
By October 10, 2013, Sumiko Muto was about to quit from being in the film, because of what she said in the email about dropping out of the film, and about frequent reshoots of her scenes, So since that outcome result, Stephen decided to get a new actress to replace Sumiko, but that was not true 11 days after October 10th in the email.

By October 16, 2013, Toy Lei did came to the audition, but she declined the acceptance to play as Susan Hattori  because of the type camera used for the film was not suitable for her reel. Other actresses like, Fusako Shiotani, Masami Yoshino, and Mika Santoh wanted to play as Susan Hattori but never responded by email or phone call, So by October 21, 2013, Stephen decided to ultimately bring back Sumiko Muto to finish her scenes on November 10th, but she post-poned the shoot until November 17th, 2013 becuase the actor playing as Ivan Hicks was not available on the 10th and she accepted to do it on that date. However, Fusako Shiotani did respond after October 21st to play as Susan Hattori.

Since Sumiko was coming back on November 17, 2013, and as a result, it took 2 months to bring back Sumiko since Stephen got the new camera on September to continue the film production of Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster. Stephen thought Sumiko left the production, but she did not say anything about it in that email on October 10th and realized that she is still in the film all along.

However, when filming was planned for November 17, 2013, Stephen thought on November 16th that Sumiko was confirmed to do her scenes on November 17th, but she was not confirmed all along and thought filming was still happening, but it was ultimately failed when only Meng showed up for filming on November 17th and Sumiko contacted Edwin that filming was not happening.

As a result, Sumiko has quitted from her role as Susan Hattori, and leaves Meng and Stephen pretty much wasted their time all morning on November 17th. So the filming on November 17th was ultimately failed and left as a complete disaster. So Stephen decied to keep contacting Sumiko by email and phone to resolve the problem, but she did not respond as she has quitted acting in the film as Susan Hattori. As a result, Sumiko will not continue to work with Stephen on the film, and the problem was not resolved.

By November 19, 2013 since Sumiko quitted from the film, Stephen has finally decided to cast Fusako Shiotani as Susan Hattori as Fusako responded to audition for the role on December 1, 2013, but turned down because of SAG restrictions.

Filming resumes on GxCM after the delays in December, 2013
Since Sumiko decided to not to continue with her role as Susan Hattori in the film, Fusako Shiotani approached to play as Susan Hattori on December 1, 2013, but she turned it down because of SAG restrictions of the film not a union project. Production of the film was at a struggle to make it a union project but, it was too tough to do it and it was a waste of time. So Sumiko Muto was brought back to the film with just the original footage of her scenes kept but, no filming of her scenes without Sumiko noticing it.

During December, 2013, since it was decided to keep the original footage of Sumiko, there were changes to the script; the office building lobby scenes and GPC vehicle scenes with Kevin, Ivan, and Susan was deleted from the film, Susan Hattori's first news reporting scene was replaced with the scene of Godzilla waking up in the Pacific Ocean. Edwin Yau has finished his scenes in the film and has moved to South America, so there are even more changes to the script since Edwin left the film; the interior helicopter scenes were deleted leaving only the exterior helicopter scenes with just Kevin Parker and Paula Smith getting on and off the helicopter.

Lillian Yee accepted the role as Teresa Cleveland on January 10, 2014.

The film finally resumes production officially with live-action scenes filmed on January 19, 2014 after a 4 month delay between 9-22-2013 and 1-19-2014 and slated to be finished by January 31, 2014 and post-production of the film begins on January 30, 2014. All four TV news anchor scenes were all filmed on January 19, 2014. Sumiko Muto will not attend the premire of the film due to her breaking the rules of the film production back on November 16, 2013, On January 29, 2014, Stephen has agreed to film all the remaining scenes of Kevin Parker, Paula Smith at the studio space in Monterey Park, California because Meng Wei, the actor playing as Kevin Parker does not want to drive all the way to Van Nuys to finish his scenes, but the studio space was too expensive to film in at $175.00 minimum. Stephen will not film there because of this reason.

By January 30, 2014, Toshiya Agata accepted the role as Colonel, Taylor, and filmed his outside scenes on February 1st at Stephen Jr's place in Van Nuys.

On February 14, 2014, and February 18, 2014, Stephen has finally filmed the first monster battle miniature scene.

By February 22, 2014, all of the remaining scenes of Paula Smith and Colonel, Taylor were all finished in one day. The military command center scenes and newspaper office scene were filmed at L.A. Mission College, the remaining scenes of Paula Smith were filmed at Stephen Jr.'s place in Van Nuys, and the office building on 15720 Ventura Blvd. in Encino. Toshiya and Tressie have finally finished all their scenes exept for Meng in which he has only has three scenes left for this film, but failed becuase Meng thought he was done with all of his scenes so, he got a haircut and ruined everything. So Stephen will have to wait until his hair grows back to the way it was.

Post-Production of Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster
On March 8, 2014, Meng installed HitFilm 2 Ultimate on Stephen Jr.'s computer through a remote control application over the internet. Since the software installed on the computer, post-production for GxCM officially began on March 8, 2014 to finish all special effects, visual effects, editing, and miniature scenes for Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster. From March 8, 2014 to March 28, 2014, Stephen took a break from producing the film for a while and never contacted Meng for three weeks. However in real life, two earthquakes happened on March 17th and March 28th during the duration of his breaktime from the production of the film. Stephen finally resumed production on March 29, 2014 by constructing the miniature of Los Angeles Union Station for the final monster battle scene in the film.

On March 30, 2014, Stephen finally contacted Meng by sending the special effects stuff for the film. He responded but, his hair is still short. So filming of his remaining scenes was planned for May 17, 2014. On April 7, 2014, the establishing shot of Kevin Parker's house was filmed in Sherman Oaks. However on the same day, the computer's hard drive blew up in which because of the type of computer that Stephen used for the post-production of the film overheated and had the hard drive melted and blew up. As a result, the scenes that were filmed between January 14, 2014 and April 7, 2014 was all gone. Stephen had to get a new computer and his father paid for it so, that the new computer will be suitable for the post-production of the film. By April 10, 2014, Stephen finally got the new computer and got the PCI express card on April 13, 2014 in which it will take a few days until April 18th to fully recover the scenes for the film. By April 18, 2014, Meng reinstalled Hitfilm 2 Ultimate on the new computer, but not the Adobe software. During the past one week since Stephen got the new computer, the live-action scenes shot back from January 19th to February 22nd were fully recovered from the mini DV tapes and post-production is good once again. Meng has installed Adobe software on the new computer. Special effects and miniature scenes are expected to be done by June 25, 2014, but has been delayed because Stephen had problems with his health after April 23, 2014.

On May 17th 2014, a reshoot of Kevin Parker's house scenes was finished along with the filming of the Godzilla Prediction Center parking garage scene with only Kevin Parker. The house scenes were filmed in the Ikea furniture store in Burbank, because it was the only location to film the house scenes for the film and the parking garage scene was also shot in Burbank as well. Stephen and Meng saw the new Godzilla film in theaters on the same day as the filming. By May 22, 2014, the reshoot of Kevin Parker's car scenes was filmed and it was the official last day of filming live-action scenes for Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster. It was a great sucess of the filming and celebrated with a small wrap party at Stephen Jr.'s place in Van Nuys.

Frequent delays of post-production of Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster after June 2014 and official cancellation on November 2019.
During the beginning of June, 2014, miniature scenes and post-production is going smoothly with the foreground miniatures filmed outside of Stephen Jr.'s place and edited in post-production. The scene of the Cloverfield Monster attacking the Metrolink train was filmed on the first Friday of June. Live-action scenes were 100% completed on the first Saturday of June and officially done. By the first half of July 2014, Stephen switched the film editing software for the film from, Magix Movie Edit Pro to Adobe Premiere Pro because the software, Magix Movie Edit Pro started to have problems and glitches. That software had glitches like, the sound effects were permanently dumped not only on the software, but on the computer as well. As a result, Stephen would have to get the sound effects from the external hard drive, and also the playback on the software was too laggy and the playback also caused the software to crash. Film editing of Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster will be have to be done on Adobe Premiere Pro from now on, since Adobe Premiere Pro is much more smoother film editing than Magix Movie Edit Pro.

By November 2014, Stephen Jr. filmed the battleship miniature scenes at his uncle's place in Palm Desert. By December 27, 2014, Stephen Jr. finally filmed some more foreground miniatures outside at his place including the helicopter landing and taking off. By the beginning of January 2015, Stephen Jr.'s camera started to break again. Because of this, he put his film on a technical delay for 6 months until he gets a very good camera to resume the production of the film. By February 2015 Stephen Jr. will get his fourth video camera and resume the production of the film by February 18th, 2015. Because of this, Stephen Jr. will have to reshoot that helicopter miniature scene all over again. By March 2015, Stephen filmed the battleship scenes outside his place, but the fourth camera he got did not have very good picture quality and the audio was bad. So, Stephen decided to put the film on a technical delay again until he gets a very good camera to finish the film.

By May 7, 2015, His friend Josh said that the theater at Panavision will get very busy after August 2015, so Stephen had to try to get Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster done as soon as possible before the chance to premiere it at Panavision's movie theater. He has decided to finish filming the miniature scenes using his cell phone camera which is in high definition, but it did not work very well because it was hard to keep it still.

By June 5, 2015, Stephen Jr. finally got a really good video camera which is his official fourth one. On June 7, 2015, Stephen finally resumed production of the film after a 6 month long technical delay of no camera to finish the film. Stephen Jr. finished filming some the miniatures and some of the film editing through the month of June. The fist half of the helicopter miniature scenes was finally finished on June 14, 2015. The miniature scenes and post-production of the film was expected to be done by the beginning of July 2015, but delayed because Stephen was working on another Godzilla fan film callled; Godzilla, Mothra, Knifehead: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.

By the beginning of July 2015, his friend Josh also said that the film should cut down to at least one hour and 30 minutes. By mid-July 2015, Stephen has cut the film down to 1 hour and 40 minutes and Josh agreed on it. One miniature scene has filmed at the end of July 2015, so in order to get the miniature scenes done faster, he started to reuse a miniature city base that was used in his previous film, Aliens Attack Los Angeles. He started to make some adjustments to the miniature city base like flattening the streets and adding sidewalks to the base. During August 2015, the miniature city construction for the film was delayed because he was working on another Godzilla fan film with his friends at LA Valley College.

By the beginning of September 2015, his friend Josh told Stephen to finish the current film first before working on another one. So, Stephen has decided to finish the film in order to have the chance to premiere it at Panavision's movie theater. Stephen put his next Godzilla fan film on hold in order to finish the film. After Stephen saw a film shoot near his place in Van Nuys on September 25, 2015, Stephen is finally motivated to finish the film by the middle of October 2015, but his college social life got in the way in the next past two years and worked on other film projects like, "Godzilla Attacks Townsville", "Godzilla: Los Angeles SOS", "Aliens Attack Los Angeles remake", brain fog issues, and etc. Those situations caused Stephen to delay the post-production of Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster, like loss of motivation to finish the film. He feels that the actors he had may not have the same phone numbers and email addresses by 2017, because of the slow pace of post-production of the film, even Sumiko Muto didn't have same cell phone number anymore. It may lead to long multiple haitus' or even worse, cancellation of Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster. The film may not have an exact premiere date because of these frequent delays.

By June 2017, Stephen has now put the film on hiatus until further notice, like maybe 5 to 10 years or if his other film projects get finished. After June 2017, Stephen decided to work on other film projects like, "Apocalypse 2019" (finished in July 2017); "Godzilla Junior vs Destroyah Attacks Los Angeles" (finished in March 2018); "Ultraman vs Cloverfield Monster" (finished in June 2018); "The Food Burglar" (finished in December 2018); and "GKC: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack" (finished in 2019). The good thing is that back in October 2017, Meng Wei still has the same email address.

Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster was expected to be finished by June 2017, and premiere on June 15, 2017 at the movie theater at Panavision in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA; but it was failed due to frequent film projects in 2017, 2018, and 2019. If the film is not finished, then it'll be on a hiatus until further notice to finish the film. There was planned premiere dates for this film for 6-17-2014, 6-27-2014, and 11-7-2014 but failed because Stephen had brain fog after 4-23-2014. The proposed premiere date for GxCM was set for 2024, after his other film projects are done, but during the filming of establishing shots for his newest Godzilla fan film, "Godzilla vs Baragon" in October 2019 and November 2019; he took all plot structure elements from GxCM and puts it into Godzilla vs Baragon, and officially cancels GxCM completely. Another reason why GxCM was cancelled is because the setting when the film takes place was outdated and made Godzilla vs Baragon taking place on July 6, 2019 instead of July 6, 2013 and made it relating to the two earthquakes in Ridgecrest and made it part of the Daikaiju Cinematic Universe.

Human Characters
Kevin Parker- a newspaper journalist works for the Los Angeles Times that will do a news story on the unknown giant monster, "Cloverfield Monster". He is very curious about Godzilla and Cloverfield Monster. Also, he later joins the Godzilla Prediction Center to get info on the "Cloverfield Monster". He is Susan Hattori's well-known love interest. Kevin lives in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. He is Chinese American.

Susan Hattori- a TV news reporter works for KTLA 5 TV Station in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. She respects her safety while the giant monster attacks the city. She is very kind and respectful and gains respect for the giant monster, Godzilla. She is also Kevin Parker's love interest and knows Kevin for 14 years since their last year of high school at Marshall High School in East Hollywood. She also lives in the city of Torrance near Los Angeles where her family relatives live. She is Japanese American.

Ivan Hicks- a scientist at the Godzilla Prediction Center who will get information about the unknown giant monster known as "Cloverfield Monster". He is very serious about the giant monster destroying Los Angeles and also gains respect for Godzilla. He works with Paula Smith. Also, he is Chinese American.

Paula Smith- The head scientist of the Godzilla Prediction Center who will track Godzilla and the unknown giant monster, "Cloverfield Monster" and gives info about the giant monster rampage to Mayor, Levinson at Los Angeles City Hall. She is African American with a french accent.

Mayor, James Levinson- a very serious mayor of the city of Los Angeles that is serious about the disaster (which is a giant monster rampage in the city). He will make mandatory large-scale evacuations of the whole city of L.A. declare a State of Emergency in the city of L.A. due to the giant monster's destructive force to the city. He has a secretary, Vanessa Nakagawa working with him at Los Angeles City Hall. He is White/Caucasian.

Secretary, Vanessa Nakagawa- a kindhearted Secretary to Mayor, James Levinson and works with him to get responses from the Godzilla Prediction Center and the U.S. Military to Mayor, Levinson. She is also Japanese American.

Colonel, Taylor- The head of the military in Southern California that will command the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and the Anti-Giant Monster Force (AGMF) at the unknown giant monster, "Cloverfield Monster". Also runs the military bases, Edwards Air Force Base, Camp Pendelton, and the San Diego U.S. Naval Base in San Diego. He is Japanese American.

Teresa Cleveland- A kindhearted TV news anchor that works with Susan Hattori. Teresa has known Kevin Parker since elementary school. She is Korean American.

Giant Monsters
Godzilla- a giant lizard type giant monster that wrecked havoc in Japan and has fought other giant monsters in Japan. He is known as "The King of the Monsters" as his nickname. Godzilla is tracked by the Godzilla Prediction Center to help kill the Cloverfield Monster. Godzilla was born from an nuclear explosion after World War II before Godzilla attacked Tokyo, Japan in 1954.

Cloverfield Monster- a giant monster that is an etxraterrestrial space alien that landed on planet Earth 10,000 years ago in a meteor or asteriod before humanity built civilizations on Earth. It is a very destructive giant monster that will destroy a whole city and kills a lot of people in a big city and and destroys the military fleet completely. The giant monster, Cloverfield Monster is also known by the nicknames as "Clover" or "Large-Scale Aggressor". Also, the giant monster attacked New York City on May 22, 2007 and returned to the ocean and swim to the Pacific Ocean 5 years later. The giant monster is the main antagonist of the film.

List of Los Angeles Landmarks in Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster
Los Angeles City Hall- Serves as where Mayor, James Levinson and Secretary, Vanessa Nakagawa works in control of the city government. LA City Hall suffered light damage when Godzilla's tail hits the building.

Los Angeles Union Station- Only seen as an establishing shot at the beginning of the film. Also gets destroyed in the final monster battle round between Godzilla and Cloverfield Monster.

US Bank Tower- Destroyed by Cloverfield Monster after it swats the NASA 747 jet airliner carrying the Space Shuttle Endeavor, and the plane hits the building, causing it to collapse into the streets below.

Los Angeles Convention Center- Destroyed by the Cloverfield Monster after swating the jet airliner carrying the Space Shuttle. The jet airliner crashes into the LA Convention Center and destroying the building partially. Also since the film takes place on July 6, 2013, Anime Expo was going on at the convention center during the giant monster attack.

Griffith Observatory- Serves as a second viewing area for the Godzilla Prediction Center when they view the giant monster battle. This is the only L.A. landmark that is not destroyed and still standing through the whole film. Serves as an evacuation center for civilians of Los Angeles.

KTLA 5 TV Station- Serves as where Susan Hattori works. Gets destroyed during the fight between Godzilla and Cloverfield Monster.

Metromedia Building (Metromedia Square)- Only seen while the Cloverfield Monster attacks the city when two of the missiles launched by the US military and miss the giant monster and hits the building. Also completely gets destroyed during the fight between Godzilla and Cloverfield Monster.

Hollywood Sign- Destroyed by the Cloverfield Monster.

Santa Monica Pier- Destroyed by Godzilla with his atomic fire breath.

Pepperdine University- Destroyed by Godzilla with his atomic fire breath while destroying the town of Malibu.

Sequels after Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster
There was possible sequels after Godzilla vs. Cloverfield Monster. The three sequels are, Godzilla vs. Gigan Attacks San Diego, Godzilla Megaguirus Gamera: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, and Godzilla 2054: Future Monster Wars. Edwin Yau, Tressie Nicole, and Sumiko Muto will not continue with their character roles in the sequels because, Edwin moved to South America, Tressie just did not want to continue because of scheduling issues, and Sumiko broke a few rules on November 16, 2013 by contacting the actor about filming without the director knowing about it first. As a result, Sumiko Muto was banned from Monster Pictures Studios but she will may come back to act in the sequel to Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster directed by Stephen Stelmach Jr.; "Godzilla: Los Angeles SOS"

The sequels will have a continuation of the storyline and the human characters, Kevin Parker, Teresa Cleveland, Colonel Taylor, and Andrew Fujioka; in which Godzilla vs. Gigan Attacks San Diego will take place in the city of San Diego, Godzilla Megaguirus Gamera: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack will take place in the city of Las Vegas in Nevada, and Godzilla 2054: Future Monster Wars will take place in the year 2054 in futuristic Los Angeles after Kevin and Teresa came to the year 2054 in a time machine and witness a huge giant monster battle in 2054, 100 years after Godzilla first attacked Tokyo, Japan in 1954. In the sequels; Ivan Hicks, Paula Smith, and Susan Hattori are dead because Godzilla accidentally killed them with his atomic fire breath during Godzilla's evolution stage. In the other two sequels; Godzilla vs. Gigan Attacks San Diego and Godzilla Megaguirus and Gamera: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack; Teresa Cleveland starts to have romantic interest in Kevin Parker and fell in love each other and got married during the course of the sequels. Also Mothra and Mechagodzilla will appear in the sequels as well.

After 2014, The sequels were cancelled due to a lack of interest of producing these films. Godzilla, Mothra, Knifehead: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack is the next Godzilla fan film, but the storyline is very very different to this current film and cancelled sequels. That film became a sequel to Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster now as "Godzilla: Los Angeles SOS"; but it barely got off the ground and until it cancelled, due to a lack of interest.

Reception
There will be critics and reviews of the fan film by Godzilla fans on YouTube, and social websites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and etc.) after the premiere date.

Disclaimer
Godzilla is property of Toho Company Ltd. and Cloverfield Monster is property of Paramount Pictures and Viacom. This is a non-profit fan film. Made solely for entertainment purposes only.