With Godzilla Minus One — excuse us, the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One — writer/director/VFX artist Takashi Yamazaki brought terror to Tokyo, pitting the atomic might of Gojira against the heroic spirit and heart of kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki) in a creature feature for the ages. Now, three years later, we’re about to get monsters in Manhattan as Yamazaki brings cinema’s favourite septuagenarian lizard — bigger, badder, and frankly more terrifying looking than ever before — to New York in hotly anticipated sequel Godzilla Minus Zero. And you can check out a freshly dropped teaser trailer for the incoming kaiju chaos below;
Okay, okay — now we see why this is about to make history as the first Japanese movie ever shot specifically for IMAX. Sure, this Godzilla Minus Zero teaser may be short, but forty seconds is plenty to tee up our boy Big G getting set to exact revenge on the nation whose nuclear tests mutated him into… well… this Godzilla. As Yamazaki revealed at CinemaCon, Godzilla Minus Zero is a direct sequel to Godzilla Minus One, set two years after the events of the first movie. And, what’s more, the official synopsis for the film confirms that we’ll be reunited with the first movie’s Shikishima family here, too.
The synopsis for Yamazaki’s movie reads: “Godzilla Minus Zero picks up in 1949, two years after the tumultuous events of Godzilla Minus One, and continues the story of the Shikishima family as they face an all-new calamity. Additionally confirmed out of CinemaCon, Ryunosuke Kamiki, the hero who faced Godzilla’s terror in Godzilla Minus One, returns as Koichi Shikishima, and is joined by Minami Hamabe as Noriko Oishi, who miraculously survived Godzilla’s first attack on Tokyo.”
Now, whether Kamiki, Hamabe, and Mr. Godzilla will be joined by any other kaiju-sized co-stars in Godzilla Minus Zero is yet to be confirmed — though we would note that the gravity manipulation glimpsed in the trailer may point towards a certain three-headed dragon making an appearance *cough* King Ghidorah *cough*. (After all, Yamazaki did tell Empire not so long ago that perhaps Godzilla Minus One was really “the calm before the storm” for our human heroes.) Ghidorah or no Ghidorah though, we’ll see exactly what Godzilla’s latest rampage has in store for us when Godzilla Minus Zero arrives in cinemas stateside on 6 November — and hopefully here in the UK soon after. Watch this space!
