South Park creators team up with Pretty Woman screenwriter for giant lizard pic

I'm pretty sure it doesn't get much more awesome than that. From a recent Wired blog entry:

J.F. Lawton, the guy who wrote Pretty Woman, took a different tack when pitching his new movie. It obviously worked. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are going to collaborate with Lawton on Giant Monsters Attack Japan! which will eschew CGI for actors dressed in rubber suits.

To sell his vision of a retro sci fi comedy, Lawton defied plain vanilla screenplay format convention -- no pictures, ever - - and spiked up his screenplay with some of his favorite freaky lizard pics.

"I knew that I was dealing with a lot of imagery that is very familiar to any 14-year-old kid who's into anime and reading manga and all that, but might not be obvious to a studio executive," he told L.A. Times Scriptland.

I guess the puppets were too hard to pull off a second time -- they decided it was time to go for the suitmation instead. Either way, my butt will be there.