 When picking the monsters for the film, Kitamura originally had  Gorosaurus from _Kingukongu no gyakushu (1967)_ (qv) and Kiriyu  (Mekagojira) from _Gojira tai Mekagojira (2002)_ (qv) to appear in  _Gojira: Fainaru uôzu (2004)_ (qv).