Godzilla is a 1998 science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 monster

Monster movie

Monster movie is a name commonly given to movies, which centre on the struggle between human beings and one or more monsters...

 disaster film

Disaster film

A disaster film is a film genre that has an impending or ongoing disaster as its subject...

 film co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich

Roland Emmerich is a German film director, screenwriter, and producer.His films, most of which are Hollywood productions filmed in English, have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide, more than those of any other European director...

. It is a loose remake of the 1954 giant monster classic Godzilla

Godzilla (1954 film)

is a 1954 Japanese science fiction film directed by Ishirō Honda and produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka. The film stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kōchi, Akihiko Hirata and Takashi Shimura. The film tells the story of Godzilla, a giant monster mutated by nuclear radiation, who ravages Japan, bringing back the...

. The storyline was conceived from a screenplay written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin

Dean Devlin

Dean Devlin is an American screenwriter, producer, television director and former actor. He is the founder of the production company Electric Entertainment.-Personal life:...

. The film relates a tale of a nuclear incident in the South Pacific which causes an abnormal mutation to occur in a reptile. The beast migrates to North America and wreaks havoc on a densley populated city.