Godzilla Minus One May be Getting a Sequel, Compete With Legendary’s Monsterverse
Godzilla Minus One is the recent installment in the Godzilla franchise which is one of the oldest and most entertaining media franchises in the world. With the first movie having been released in 1954, the franchise is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the ‘longest continuously running film franchise’ despite multiple hiatuses of various lengths.
Godzilla Minus One is one of the 33 Japanese films about Godzilla that have been produced and distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. The movie has been doing great both critically as well as commercially ever since its international release. Recently, the director of the movie Takashi Yamazaki has expressed his interest in making a sequel to the movie.
Godzilla Minus One Might Get A Sequel
People’s obsession with Earthly as well as extraterrestrial monsters has been as old as their obsession with superheroes. Godzilla movies are not released every year so, it does not come as much of a surprise that every time a new one is released, people make sure to watch it. Not to mention that the quality of these movies is maintained which might have to do something with the fact that they get ample time to do it well.
Godzilla Minus One, the 37th film in the franchise, was the closing film at the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival. The film is set in post-World War II Japan and sees the inhabitants fight with yet another crisis in the form of a gigantic monster.
Domestically released on November 3, the movie has grossed $41 million against a $15 million budget. Owing to this success, the director Takashi Yamazaki claimed that he would like to make a sequel (via Sanspo), saying: “I wonder if they’ll let me make just one more.”
Judging from the response the movie has been getting lately, it only seems fair that it gets a sequel. Yamazaki wrote the script for this movie over a period of three years and took inspiration from the 1954 Godzilla movie, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, and also the work of Hayao Miyazaki.
Godzilla Minus One Director is Ecstatic about the Movie’s Success
With a certified fresh rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes (97% with critics and 98% with audience), Godzilla: Minus One had a record-breaking opening in North America for a foreign movie.
According to a statement released by Toho (via Deadline), director Takashi Yamazaki, who also served as the director of VFX, is quite happy with the outcome as he said:
“I am happy that Godzilla, of all characters, has eclipsed a record that had not been broken for a long time. Looking back, I think that the cast and crew were all working on the film with the same goal in mind: to make something entertaining! That is what led to such a wonderful result. I will always remember this.”
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The movie, released on the 70th anniversary of the 1954 movie Godzilla, has done quite well. Hopefully, Yamazaki will get the chance to make a sequel as it would be nice to see his visionary moving forward. However, this would also mean that it would give competition to Legendary’s Monsterverse.
