Godzilla Minus One sequel?! - Takashi Yamazaki [New Godzilla Film] confirmed

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LegendZilla wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:27 pm When you come to think of it, If they held off on Hedorah and saved him for a third film, he'd be perfect to be tied in with the 1956 Minamata disaster.
There is no advantage saving Hedorah for a third film if Yamazaki wants to use him now because a sequel can move up to anywhere they need it to be.
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miguelnuva wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 10:14 pm
LegendZilla wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:51 pm
shadowgigan wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:07 pm I don't really have a preference. Of course I'd love to see Hedorah. Ultimately it's going to come down to what Yamazaki's vision calls for. I hope the choice is story driven rather than choosing a kaiju and then writing a story around that choice.
Waiting until a hypothetical third film will give CGI time to develop and really do the character justice in my opinion.
Yamazaki said what ever he does in the minus one sequel he will wait until Chi is at a point he can tell his stroy. We don't know if Japan cgi is good enough for Heodrah or not but we do know Yamazaki said his movie will depend on the cgi and his vision.
And I don't mind that. I'm sure his story will proceed with all life that in mind. Im just saying that whatever kaiju he decides to use, i hope it's a natural outgrowth of the story rather than just shoe horning something in because "Ghidorah sells" or something like that. I think GMO'S success stemmed first and foremost from the quality of the film.

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Cookson wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 4:22 pm The next time I see Ghidorah, I want him to have his own solo film. Imagine a serious tone ala Minus One, with an invasion by Ghidorah. Can be a film that takes place over just a few hours.

I’m burnt out on Godzilla fighting Ghidorah.
Ive imagined this as well. I think it could be pretty interesting.

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I think they are going to go back to the evolving Godzilla well. Since he is evolving from a hunk of flesh we will see him grow over time.

That is where I am putting my money.

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GodzillaIsCool wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:02 am I think they are going to go back to the evolving Godzilla well. Since he is evolving from a hunk of flesh we will see him grow over time.

That is where I am putting my money.
He's regenerating, not "evolving".

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Ya you are right. Bad choice of words.

Multiple Godzilla forms as he regenerates I should have said.

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While of course it could always be done, minus Mothra, I don’t really think a bulk of Toho monsters really have both the “star power” and plot behind them to really warrant their own films in the modern era.

Ghidorah, out of all the possible monsters, really actually has nothing going for it. Ghidorah is the epitome of “random space monster” showing up, and only works as a foil to other more heroic monsters. The two times they’ve actually tried to flesh out Ghidorah’s backstory (91’ and GMK) people generally have had a strong negative reaction. Not saying it can’t be done, but yeah.

Another thing is that while Mothra and Rodan solo films in the past, it’s really only Mothra having a real shot at such a thing. Rodan (1956) is great, but it’s more so a product of its time, rather than revolving specifically about Rodan or what makes Rodan cool to us.
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LSD Jellyfish wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:16 pmGhidorah, out of all the possible monsters, really actually has nothing going for it. Ghidorah is the epitome of “random space monster” showing up, and only works as a foil to other more heroic monsters. The two times they’ve actually tried to flesh out Ghidorah’s backstory (91’ and GMK) people generally have had a strong negative reaction. Not saying it can’t be done, but yeah.
As an addition, after GKOTM and Planet Eater's releases, a lot of people I spoke with felt Ghidorah was suffering from overexposure and no longer an interesting character, so I would discourage Toho from revisiting him in the near future unless demand were to suddenly spike. He's become kind of irrelevant to the franchise outside of the '60s films where he had multiple iconic appearances. In contrast, Mechagodzilla has been somewhat more prevalent over the last thirty years and I've not seen anyone complain about him getting overused.

I do think Rodan could carry a solo storyline with the right creative team, but I have my doubts such a team could exist in a practical sense, and Mothra's solo storylines seemed mostly poor based on what I've heard.
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We will be getting more information shortly, apparently.
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What does any of that mean?

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An explanation on exactly what that was would have been very helpful, LSD. Lol

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Legion1979 wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:40 am An explanation on exactly what that was would have been very helpful, LSD. Lol
For real lol

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"Godzilla New Movies

Director, Script, VFX / Takashi Yamazaki

Production Decision

Stay tuned for more information"

(What one of the youtube comments claims)

There seems to be debate about the translation of the word "movies" and if the proper plural use is used here. So don't look into the "Movies" comment too much until someone who is fluent in Japanese can clarify.

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It doesn't say movies in Japanese. This is the same announcement as before. They appear to have simply uploaded the video again as far as I can tell. Maybe an indication of developments, maybe not.
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Jomei wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:05 am It doesn't say movies in Japanese. This is the same announcement as before. They appear to have simply uploaded the video again as far as I can tell. Maybe an indication of developments, maybe not.
Just this, yeah.

It does mean we’ll probably get breadcrumbs of info soon though, can’t really think why they’d just upload a brief “nothing teaser” randomly 3 months later.

To also quickly reinforce your point about not “movies”, Japanese lacks plurals in the same way English does. That’s the kind of thing you get when you quickly throw something into a translator (you know this, others might not).
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LSD Jellyfish wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 5:16 pm While of course it could always be done, minus Mothra, I don’t really think a bulk of Toho monsters really have both the “star power” and plot behind them to really warrant their own films in the modern era.

Ghidorah, out of all the possible monsters, really actually has nothing going for it. Ghidorah is the epitome of “random space monster” showing up, and only works as a foil to other more heroic monsters. The two times they’ve actually tried to flesh out Ghidorah’s backstory (91’ and GMK) people generally have had a strong negative reaction. Not saying it can’t be done, but yeah.

Another thing is that while Mothra and Rodan solo films in the past, it’s really only Mothra having a real shot at such a thing. Rodan (1956) is great, but it’s more so a product of its time, rather than revolving specifically about Rodan or what makes Rodan cool to us.
I agree about Ghidorah. I was just meaning that’s how I would like to see him next, because I’m simply put… just done with him! I’d rather Toho use other unused Kaiju. That’s why I’m all for Hedorah being in it. Something like Anguirus and Hedorah would be a nice… fresh combo.

Anyway, hopefully some little tidbits soon! I’m going to assume this will get a November 2026 release.
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Hmm I'll admit that I wasn't expecting anything from Toho this soon I figured they wait until November.

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I don’t know why but an Anguirus/Hedorah combo is whah I’ve been wanting as well.

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DynomikeGojira wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:49 am Hmm I'll admit that I wasn't expecting anything from Toho this soon I figured they wait until November.
Same. And even then, I wasn't sure that we would even get anything this November specifically.
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^How about an Anguirus/Rodan combo?

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Here's freaky idea for what could happen to Noriko in the sequel : After getting her DNA mixed with Godzilla, she assexually gives birth to a mutant human/Godzilla-hybrid. Said hybrid will gradually grow to kaiju-size.

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Well I mean Rodan and Anguirus have always been the popular choices before Hedorah piped people's interests for a bit.

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