Hollywood came calling after Godzilla Minus One won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects, and Takashi Yamazaki had to turn down projects he would have jumped at under different circumstances. This was a filmmaker who grew up going to see American science fiction in theaters. Now, some of the people who made those movies were watching his. He still wanted to make Godzilla Minus Zero first.
In a new interview, Yamazaki said that he had a story and a theme he wanted to explore in a second movie, and that was enough to set aside the Hollywood offers and spend another few years with Godzilla. With Minus Zero about to open in North America, the question is whether he feels that same pull toward a third movie. This time, he already knows what he wants to make next.
“I would say it’s about fifty-fifty at this point,” Yamazaki said when asked about making a third Godzilla movie. He explained that he’d be a little sad if Minus Zero turned out to be his last outing with Godzilla and that he’d love to return to this world at some point in his career. First up is Grandgear, an English-language mecha movie produced by J.J. Abrams, with other projects lined up after that.
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▦︎ The Matrix The Resistance, Zion You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You would survive The Matrix because you were never fully sold on the version of reality you were handed. You notice the seams. You ask the second question. In a world built to keep people comfortable and incurious, that instinct is the whole fight, and it is why Morpheus would have found you long before you found him. From the Collider file
The Wachowskis’ 1999 film won four Academy Awards, including Visual Effects and Film
Editing.
Bullet time was shot with a rig of roughly 120 still cameras firing in sequence around the
actors.
Keanu Reeves trained in martial arts for about four months before a frame was shot,
recovering from neck surgery the whole time.
It opened the same year as Fight Club and eXistenZ, in a run of films about not trusting the
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◈︎ Mad Max The Wasteland Oh, what a day. What a lovely day.
You would survive the Wasteland because you do not waste energy mourning the world that ended. You move, you improvise, and you are very good with whatever is bolted to the thing in front of you. Furiosa would let you drive. That is not a compliment anybody earns easily. From the Collider file
Mad Max: Fury Road won six Academy Awards in 2016, more than any other film that year.
George Miller storyboarded the entire film as roughly 3,500 panels before there was a
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The chase was shot almost entirely practical in the Namib Desert, with real vehicles and
real stunt performers.
Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth carried the prequel, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in 2024.
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◑︎ Blade Runner Los Angeles, 2049 All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
You would survive 2049 because you know how to be small in a very loud city. You keep your head down, you do the job, and you hold onto one private thing that belongs only to you. That quiet stubbornness is exactly what both Deckard and K run on, and it is what keeps either of them going when the case stops making sense. From the Collider file
Blade Runner 2049 won Roger Deakins his first Oscar for cinematography, on his fourteenth
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The film also took Best Visual Effects, 35 years after Ridley Scott’s 1982 original.
Villeneuve shot it on large-format film and kept the fog and rain practical on set wherever
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Three short films by Luke Scott and Shinichiro Watanabe bridge the 30-year gap between the
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▲︎ Dune Arrakis Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
You would survive Arrakis because you think in decades while everyone around you thinks in weeks. You read the room, you learn the customs, you wait. The desert does not reward speed. It rewards people who understand that patience is a weapon, which is the one lesson the Fremen never had to be taught. From the Collider file
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune won six Academy Awards in 2022, including Cinematography and
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Hans Zimmer turned down Christopher Nolan’s Tenet so he could score Dune instead.
Dune: Part Two arrived in 2024 and brought in Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and Christopher
Walken.
David Lynch’s 1984 version and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unmade one are both their
own legends by now.
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✦︎ Star Wars A Galaxy Far, Far Away Rebellions are built on hope.
You would survive the galaxy because you never try to survive it alone. You collect people. You end up in the middle of other folks’ problems and you stay anyway. Every version of this story, from the Falcon’s crew to the Ghost’s, runs on somebody exactly like that holding the group together. From the Collider file
The 1977 original won six Academy Awards plus a special achievement award for sound effects.
John Williams’ score was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and became the
best-selling symphonic film soundtrack ever.
Andor took the galaxy somewhere colder and earned Emmy nominations for drama series in both
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The saga now runs across eleven feature films and a growing shelf of series on Disney+.
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What Could a Third Godzilla Movie Explore After ‘Minus Zero’?
Godzilla walks by the Statue of Liberty.Image via Toho
Spoilers for Godzilla Minus Zero below.The sequel picks up in 1949, two years after the events of Minus One, and brings the Shikishima family into the path of King Ghidorah. For Yamazaki, the bigger challenge was keeping the people in the movie from becoming incidental once two enormous monsters were on screen. The Shikishimas have already had to rebuild their lives once, and bringing in Ghidorah means asking how much more they can lose. Yamazaki also used flashbacks to look beyond what the first movie showed, and said some of the sequel’s most frightening ideas came from imagining what other people might have experienced during the events of Minus One, giving a third movie an avenue beyond finding a monster bigger than Ghidorah. Yamazaki has already found another story by looking more closely at an attack audiences thought they knew, and there was plenty of carnage to explore from Minus Zero.
The question Yamazaki keeps coming back to is what happens to the Shikishimas. Yamazaki has also stated in previous interviews that the family had entered the realm of Godzilla and Ghidorah, whom he described as raging gods. Stories about people who cross that kind of line tend to end badly, and he’d like to spare them that fate. He’s also happy leaving the ending of Minus Zero for audiences to interpret. After watching this family survive two movies, there’s a case for letting them have some peace. There’s also a movie in finding out whether they know how to live with it.
And even if the Shikishimas finally get some peace, Minus Zero gives us a good reason to worry about what the Americans will do next. Professor Murakami (Min Tanaka) destroys the resonance wave device he invented because it can summon Godzilla, and he refuses to hand the Americans a weapon with that kind of power. So they kidnap him. Murakami did everything he could to keep anyone from using Godzilla that way again, and the Americans took his refusal as a reason to go after him. It’s nice to think that he could teach them the wisdom he has learned himself throughout Minus Zero, but it’s also equally as hard to imagine it would be that easy.
