Editing Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (section)

===Conception===
Although the previously filmed ''[[Godzilla vs. Biollante]]'' had been the most expensive ''Godzilla'' film produced at the time, its low audience attendance and loss of revenue convinced executive producer and ''Godzilla'' series creator [[Tomoyuki Tanaka]] to revitalize the series by bringing back iconic monsters from pre-1984 ''Godzilla'' movies, specifically Godzilla's archenemy [[King Ghidorah]].<ref name="Ryfle"/>

''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' director and writer [[Kazuki Ōmori]] had initially hoped to start a standalone series centered on [[Mothra]], and was in the process of rewriting a 1990 script for the unrealized film ''Mothra vs. Bagan''. The film was ultimately scrapped by Toho, under the assumption that, unlike Godzilla, Mothra would have been a difficult character to market overseas. The planning stages for a sequel to ''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' were initially hampered by Tanaka's deteriorating health, thus prompting the takeover of [[Shōgo Tomiyama]] as producer. The new producer felt that the financial failure of ''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' was due to the plot being too sophisticated for child audiences, and thus intended to return some of the fantasy elements of the pre-1984 ''Godzilla'' films to the series. Ōmori himself blamed the lackluster performance of ''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' on competition with ''[[Back to the Future Part II]]'', and thus concluded that audiences wanted plots involving time travel.<ref name="Kalat"/> His approach to the film also differed from ''Godzilla vs. Biollante'' in his greater emphasis on developing the personalities of the monsters rather than the human characters.<ref name="Wong">{{cite book|last1=Wong|first1=Kin Yuen|title=World Weavers: Globalization, Science Fiction, and the Cybernetic Revolution|date=2005|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|location=Hong Kong|isbn=9789622097216|page=182|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWnqAQAAQBAJ&q=godzilla+ghidorah&pg=PA182|access-date=29 November 2015}}</ref>

[[Akira Ifukube]] agreed to compose the film's score on the insistence of his daughter, although he had been dissatisfied with the way his compositions had been treated in ''Godzilla vs. Biollante''.{{sfn|Ryfle|1998|p=315}}