Toho Announces a New Japanese GODZILLA Movie and Sets a Release Date
While Legendary Pictures produces Godzilla Vs. Kong 2 and a live-action Godzilla series for Apple TV+, the production company that originally launched the franchise, Toho, is producing its own new Japanese Godzilla movie! They also revealed that November 3rd is now Godzilla Day.
The studio has announced that the Godzilla movie will be released on November 3rd, 2023, which is before Godzilla Vs. Kong will be released in 2024. This marks the first live-action Toho Godzilla feature since the awesome 2016 film Shin Godzilla.
Toho released a teaser image that doesn’t reveal much. The stylized letter G is cool, as it was made to look like a silhouette of a giant kaiju.
CNBC is reporting that the new Godzilla film will be directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who worked on visual effects for Shin Godzilla. Lora Cohn, managing director of Toho International, the L.A.-based subsidiary of film, theater production and distribution company Toho said: “Godzilla’s long history has shaped the world of pop culture and monster fandom for nearly 70 years.”
Bill Tsutsui, a historian and academic known for his expertise in Godzilla went on to talk about the history of Godzilla saying: “For so many decades Japanese people weren’t terribly proud of creating this movie monster. It was not as big a deal in Japan as Godzilla was abroad. Recently though, the Japanese, including the Toho studio, have come to realize what a huge property Godzilla is, and they’ve done a much better job of leveraging and marketing Godzilla and growing that property. Japanese have a new found sense of pride in the monster, and that’s an important addition here.”
There’s no word on what story the new Godzilla movie will tell, but it may serve as a sequel to Shin Godzilla. However, there are also rumors that the film could be a World War II-era story set in the 1940s, which would be interesting!
Are you excited to hear that Toho is making a new Godzilla movie!?