The wait is over. At Godzilla Fest 2025 in Tokyo, Toho Studios dropped the title for the follow-up to its surprise 2023 hit: Godzilla Minus Zero.Director and VFX supervisor Takashi Yamazaki returns in both roles for this one, and Shirogumi, his company responsible for the first film's Oscar-winning visual effects, is back to handle the big boy's VFX work again. Toho Co., Ltd. will produce and distribute.Godzilla Minus One was a surprising reset in the franchise, a return to form that centered on post-war trauma and devastation in Japan while delivering stunning visuals on a shoestring budget.Made for around $15 million, the film earned over $116 million worldwide and became the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film to debut domestically in 2023. It also made history as the third-highest-grossing non-English-language film in the U.S. market.Then it went on to win the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects (the first Asian production to do so), beating out Hollywood tentpoles with budgets 10 times its own.The title announcement came with a hand-drawn logo by Yamazaki himself.Check out the teaser below: — (@) The Meaning of Godzilla Minus Zero Godzilla Minus One indicated Japan's state of being at "zero" (the worst possible point) after World War II, with Godzilla then plunging the nation to "minus one."The meaning of "Minus Zero" is still unclear. It could be a prequel to the story of Godzilla Minus One (before things were that dire), or a continuation of that timeline in which conditions have improved, or a thematic reset....
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