The news was announced on the famous character’s official Twitter account during the 2022 “Godzilla Day” celebrations.
Godzilla is a huge, destructive, fictional sea monster, or kaiju, empowered by nuclear radiation, that first appeared in the 1954 film Godzilla.
After the first movie, Godzilla became a global pop culture icon, and the beast has since appeared in 32 Toho films and four American remakes, as well as various video games, television shows and comic books.
This will be the 30th live action Godzilla film in the Toho franchise, as three of the 32 total films were animated.
Godzilla is often referred to as “King of the Monsters,” after the phrase was first used in the American version of the original film, titled Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, in 1956.
Toho’s most recent Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla, was released back in 2016 and marked the return of the Toho film series after a 12-year absence.
Prior to Shin Godzilla, the last Toho Godzilla movie was 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars.
Following the exciting announcement, Newsweek has everything you need to know about the new Godzilla movie.
Godzilla Movie Release Date
The release date for new Godzilla movie was revealed as the film was announced.
In a tweet posted to the 113.7k fans who follows the Twitter account @Godzilla_Toho it was confirmed that the film will be released on November 3, 2023.
November 3 is very special day for Godzilla fans and is known as “Godzilla Day” as it marks the anniversary of the original Godzilla film’s November 3, 1954, nationwide release in Japan.
Who Is the Director of the New Godzilla Movie?
In a separate tweet it was confirmed that Takashi Yamazaki will be directing the new movie.
Yamazaki is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and visual effects director who was the executive creative director for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, which eventually took place in 2021 due to the COVID pandemic.
Yamazaki, 58, is perhaps best known for his film Always: Sunset on Third Street, for which he won the best director and best screenplay prizes at the Japanese Academy Awards in 2006.
He is also a member of Shirogumi, the well known animation studio.
Next year will also see Apple TV+ premiere Legendary Entertainment’s Godzilla and the Titans (working title), which was filming in Canada over the summer.
The first two episodes of the series will be directed by WandaVision director Matt Shankman, who also serves as an executive producer across the series.
The last Americanized Godzilla film to be released was Godzilla vs. Kong, which opened in the United States in March 2021 and starred Alexander Skarsgård, Stranger Things’ Millie Bobby Brown and Rebecca Hall.
