effects director Teruyoshi Nakano had initially wanted to give Gigan the ability to fire a laser beam from its forehead in homage to Buddhist art depicting the Buddha sporting a halo around his head, but the idea was scrapped, as Nakano felt that the character was already powerful enough. The beam was nevertheless included in some promotional stills, along with various Godzilla video games.
In January 2019, director of the 2019 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Michael Dougherty expressed his interest in bringing back both Gigan and Biollante in future sequels of Legendary's MonsterVerse as he was quoted as saying "I wanted to do it, but if I had the opportunity to do it again, I would have Biollante. Oh, and Gigan!".

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Gigan, as a cyborg, possesses a circularFor the first time, the public has heard evidence in the case to impeach US President Donald Trump.

Mr Trump is accused of trying to press Ukraine into investigating his political rival, Joe Biden. Trump denies any wrongdoing.

William Taylor, the acting US ambassador to Ukraine, and George Kent, a top US diplomat, testified to Congress about what they say occurred between Ukraine's President, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Trump.

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