In case you missed the memo, Godzilla Minus One was kind of a big deal. Bringing terror to Tokyo and pitting the atomic might of cinema’s ultimate scaly boi against the heroic spirit and heart of kamikaze pilot Koichi Shikishima (Ryunosuke Kamiki), Takashi Yamazaki’s movie reinvigorated the legendary kaiju on the big screen with a jaw-slackening creature feature that went on to win the Oscar for Best Visual Effects and spawn upcoming sequel Godzilla Minus Zero. And now, with one major Hollywood movie already heading our way from Yamazaki (more on that below), Tinseltown has already come calling for another slice of the Yamazaki moviemaking pie.
Per Deadline‘s reporting, 20th Century Studios has landed ‘an original epic’ from writer-director and VFX maven Yamazaki named Nue. Set to be produced by Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss under their Scott Free banner, with Godzilla Minus One shingles Robot Communications and Toho-Tombo also aboard to co-produce, Nue will mark Takashi Yamazaki’s second foray into major studio filmmaking on the other side of the Pacific. Yes, in case anyone had forgotten, we already have monster-versus-mech sci-fi spectacular Grandgear — made in collaboration with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot — to look forward to, an English-language effort currently slated for an 18 February, 2028 release. And, of course, we’ll be getting Godzilla Minus Zero in all its outsized IMAX glory this November, too.
As for Nue, everything about the movie is currently being kept under lock and kaiju-guarded key for now. We don’t know who’ll be in it, what it’s about, or when we can expect it to hit our screens. But surely it says something about the enormity of Yamazaki’s talent that with nothing more than a three-letter title, we already find ourselves excited by the prospect of another massive film from one of Japan’s finest contemporary filmmakers. We’ll keep you posted on what’s Nue just as soon as we find out for ourselves…
