Japanese entertainment company, Toho Co. Ltd., has announced Godzilla Minus One‘s worldwide release dates. While the moviegoers are gearing up for a Barbenheimer weekend in July 2023, Toho has teased the MonsterVerse fans with the official teaser of its December release.
Godzilla Minus One Hits Theatres Winter 2023
While Nolan’s Oppenheimer will educate the audiences about the events that led to the invention of nuclear power, Toho’s upcoming project will serve fans the much-needed aftermath story. Robert Oppenheimer’s creation of nuclear weapons led to catastrophic events in Japan which is the origin story of the giant monster named Godzilla.
It is going to be a year for cinema lovers. When the testing of American nuclear weapons resulted in the creation of a ruthless monster, Japan seeks the help of a withdrawn scientist to put an end to it. There have been over 30 movies made about Godzilla so far. Godzilla Minus One will hit Japanese theatres on November 3, 2023, which will mark the 69th anniversary of the first-ever monster movie Gojira in 1954.
Since its release in 1954, Honda Ishiro’s Gojira has laid the foundation for the super-hit pop culture monster phenomenon. The franchise has since delivered multi-million dollars worth of collections in ticket sales, comics, books, TV shows, and merchandise. Toho Co. Ltd. has acquired the intellectual property rights and licenses of the franchise for over a decade.
Godzilla Minus One Plot
Godzilla.com describes the latest franchise as set in “an already devastated postwar Japan.”
“GODZILLA MINUS ONE is written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki and sees an already devastated postwar Japan facing a new threat in the form of Godzilla.”
It will be the first domestic Japanese Godzilla movie since 2016 to hit American theatres. Toho also released the first look at the redesign of the Godzilla toy.
The action figure has been supervised by the director Takashi Yamazaki to match Godzilla’s appearance in the films. The company site states-
“Based on the 3D data used in the film, Yuji Sakai sculpted, colored, and produced the figure. The figure was also directly supervised by director Takashi Yamazaki to reproduce Godzilla as he appeared in the film!”
The figure has been designed to let consumers experience a replica of the monster that appears in the films. It will be available for pre-orders from July 18, 2023. And the orders are expected to be ready to be shipped from November 2023. The toys will approximately be selling for $100 per item.
“A wide range of motion allows poses appropriate for Godzilla (2023). In addition, for the first time in the S.H.MonsterArts series, the toes are independently movable. This allows you to recreate an image closer to the impression of Godzilla in the movie.”
