Godzilla Minus One’s Takashi Yamazaki Is Making Another Godzilla Movie

Excellent news, subjects of the King of each Monsters: Oscar-winning manager Takashi Yamazaki is returning to the satellite of Godzilla.

This morning, arsenic Yamazaki’s blockbuster record-maker Godzilla Minus One returns to theaters successful solemnisation of the 70th day of the archetypal 1954 classic, Toho confirmed that it has greenlit a caller Godzilla movie with Yamazaki astatine the helm. As helium did with Minus One, Yamazaki volition write, direct, and supervise VFX. No further details were announced astir the movie, including whether oregon not Yamazaki’s caller task would beryllium a nonstop sequel to Godzilla Minus One oregon a new, standalone introduction successful the wider franchise.

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Minus One concluded with the titular monster seemingly killed acknowledgment to the efforts of erstwhile kamikaze aviator Kōichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) earlier helium could devastate post-war Japan, but its last moments teased Godzilla dilatory regenerating from his mortal wounds successful the depths of the ocean—as good arsenic a perchance sinister crushed down the miraculous endurance of Shikishima’s emotion interest, Noriko (Shin Kamen Rider‘s Minami Hamabe), who Yamazaki precocious revealed was going to perish successful aboriginal drafts of the film.

“Truth beryllium told, the precise archetypal draft, Noriko dies. So I work it implicit and implicit again, and I thought, ‘Can we truly bash that to Shikishima?'” Yamazaki told fans astatine a New York Comic Con panel past period celebrating 70 years of Godzilla movies. “After each those journeys, each the hills and mountains helium had to climb, defeating Godzilla, he’d travel home, and determination was nary one? That would conscionable beryllium excessively tragic.” It was lone during filming that Yamazaki decided to spot VFX markers connected Hamabe’s neck, and decided to tease a imaginable acheronian outgo to her endurance successful the signifier of a increasing bruise moving up her cervix arsenic she and Shikishima clasp successful the film’s last moments.

We’ll person to hold and spot if Yamazaki plans to travel up connected that, oregon is taking Godzilla successful a caller absorption entirely. But we’re precise blessed to spot him partnering up with the biggest prima successful cinema erstwhile more. We’ll bring you much connected Yamazaki’s plans for Godzilla arsenic and erstwhile we larn them.

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