In the early '80s an attempt to do an American studio version of Godzilla was made with Steve Miner as director, Fred Dekker writer, William Stout production designer and Rick Baker effects. Stout shared storyboards from this project at MondoCon! Read the full article on AICN Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. MondoCon is more than just a bunch of poster nerds gathering together vying for different limited edition prints.