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Toho has announced that there will be a new Godzilla movie coming our way from writer/director Takashi Yamazaki, the maker of Godzilla Minus One.

Last year, Toho released the latest Godzilla film, titled Godzilla Minus One, in Japan on November 3rd, which also happens to be Godzilla Day, the anniversary of the 1954 release of the original Godzilla movie. That Marking the 69th anniversary of the original movie.

So this year marks the 70th anniversary of the original film.

This week, it was announced the greenlight has been given to a new Godzilla movie that will be written and directed by Godzilla Minus One mastermind Takashi Yamazaki, who will also be handling the visual effects.

Godzilla Minus One saw an already devastated postwar Japan facing a new threat in the form of Godzilla. Toho’s Koji Ueda provided the synopsis: “Set in a post-war Japan, Godzilla Minus One will once again show us a Godzilla that is a terrifying and overwhelming force, which you already get a sense of from the teaser trailer and poster. The concept is that Japan, which had already been devastated by the war, faces a new threat with Godzilla, bringing the country into the ‘minus.’“ The film stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, and Kuranosuke Sasaki, with music by Naoki Sato. Interestingly, one of Yamazaki’s previous credits is the 2007 film Always: Sunset on Third Street 2, which features a Godzilla cameo in a fantasy sequence. 

Godzilla Minus One comes to Vue Cinema

Details on Yamazaki’s follow-up have not been revealed, but Yamazaki has always been open about the fact that he was hoping to get the chance to make a sequel. He has said, “I would certainly like to see what the sequel would look like. I know that Shikishima’s war seems over, and we’ve reached this state of peace and calm, but perhaps it’s the calm before the storm, and the characters have not yet been forgiven for what has been imposed upon them. …I don’t know that anyone has pulled off a more serious tone of kaiju-versus-kaiju with human drama, and that challenge is something that I’d like to explore. When you have movies that feature kaiju battles, I think it’s very easy to put the spotlight and the camera on this massive spectacle, and it detaches itself from the human drama component.” He went on to say that he would have to “make sure that the human drama and whatever’s happening between the kaiju both have meaning, and both are able to affect one another in terms of plot development.“