Godzilla followers have purpose to roar with pleasure, as Toho has greenlit a brand new film from Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki.
Godzilla Minus One took a singular method to the normal big lizard story that created considered one of 2023’s finest movies: A prequel to the Godzilla franchise set within the quick aftermath of World Struggle II, the film depicts a Japan struggling to get again on its ft as seen by way of the eyes of Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), a younger man paralyzed by grief and trauma following the struggle (and an adjoining Godzilla assault).
Godzilla Minus One notably received the Oscar for Finest Visible Results on the 96th Academy Awards: Earlier than turning into a director, Yamazaki received his begin working as a VFX supervisor, expertise which was undoubtedly important to retaining the primary movie’s finances below $15 million whereas wanting pretty much as good as any $200 million blockbuster.
The brand new Toho film will very seemingly not have any connection to Legendary Leisure and Warner Bros.’ personal universe of kaiju tasks, together with this yr’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and the Apple TV+ sequence Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, and Shōgun star Anna Sawai, which is at present in manufacturing for Season 2.
Yamazaki will as soon as once more be overseeing the visible results for the brand new movie, about which there are few different particulars. Whereas there’s no affirmation that this follow-up can be a direct sequel, Minus One did finish on a tentative notice, with the final word destiny of a key character left ambiguous… whereas, after all, the specter of Godzilla nonetheless lurks beneath the waves.
There isn’t a anticipated launch date for Yamazaki’s new movie. However it will probably’t come too quickly.
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