After beforehand expressing curiosity in engaged on a Star Wars film, Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki has lately screened his critically-acclaimed kaiju movie on Lucasfilm’s lot, doubtlessly indicating the potential for a future collaboration.
August Ragone, a longtime fan of Godzilla and Star Wars alike, the host of the first-ever American anime and tokusatsu conference in 1979, and the creator of a biography of Godzilla and Ultraman co-creator Eiji Tsuburaya, lately attended a screening of Godzilla Minus One attended by the director himself. The occasion was put collectively by Lucasfilm’s personal Chief Creative Officer and Executive Vice President Dave Filoni and Senior Pipeline Technical Director Kenneth Ibrahim. You can learn Ragone’s put up in regards to the screening beneath:
Great #GodzillaMinusOne screening tonite @ #Lucasfilm. Was launched to director Yamazaki after the Q&A. He was additionally gracious sufficient to signal my copy of the Jpn theater program. A Godzillian due to Ken Ibrahim & #DaveFiloni! More tomorrow! #Godzilla #Kaiju #ILMVFX pic.twitter.com/WkK9gGx1OQ
— August Ragone (@RagoneAugust) January 10, 2024
As it stands, this might imply a large number of issues for the way forward for Star Wars – Lucasfilm reps might be very impressed with the movie and push for him to develop his personal mission within the long-running franchise, or this can be a one-off screening that doesn’t essentially lead to a brand new Star Wars story instructed by a Japanese filmmaker. Still, it additionally wouldn’t be the primary time that Lucasfilm sought out Japanese expertise – Lucasfilm CEO Kathleen Kennedy and Filoni beforehand trekked to Japan to satisfy with Star Wars Visions: The Ninth Jedi animators Production I.G for unspecified causes, however more likely to speak about future prospects for Visions or different tasks set within the galaxy far, far-off. Aside from his curiosity in Star Wars, Takashi Yamazaki has famous that he’s occupied with the potential for making a direct sequel to Godzilla Minus One, which the film’s reception will surely invite as a risk.
In the quick aftermath World War II, mere weeks after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the firebombings of cities like Tokyo, the nation was left in ruins was put at a state of zero because it surrendered to the Allies – and he arrival of Godzilla takes the nation to a state of minus one. Godzilla Minus One is ready over the course of two years, as a failed kamikaze pilot returns to what’s left of his dwelling after an encounter with a large monster he noticed on a distant island. Amidst the devastation of Tokyo, he finds a brand new life with a girl he met on an opportunity encounter and an orphaned woman who they appear after. As he grew to become a minesweeper to atone for his guilt over the struggle and to supply for his household, the person discovers that the monster he encountered is alive and extra harmful than ever, being empowered by nuclear checks within the Bikini Atoll. With each the United States and the Soviet Union locked in a chilly struggle, outdoors help is not possible – and the person and his allies need to act quick to cease Godzilla from bringing untold devastation to a individuals who have already suffered significantly.
On high of receiving widespread crucial acclaim, Godzilla Minus One proved to be a kaiju-sized sleeper hit on the home field workplace; it’s set to clear $50M within the American and Canadian markets this weekend, collectively making them the most important income than its spectacular $35M+ haul in Japan. With a funds of below $15M, the movie is ready to be one of the crucial worthwhile in the complete franchise, and one of many highest-grossing Japanese-language movies outdoors of its native market. Takashi Yamazaki undoubtedly proved his stripes with a film that made its human drama as compelling because the monster motion was awe-inspiring to look at, and it might be fantastic to see Lucasfilm give him a chance to work on a bigger stage – particularly given how a lot of the Star Wars franchise’s DNA is indebted to Japanese tradition and cinema.
Godzilla Minus One remains to be taking part in in choose theaters.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for so long as he can bear in mind, having seen each film on the massive display. When he’s not arduous at work along with his school research, he retains himself busy by reporting on every kind of Star Wars information for SWNN and basic film information on the sister website, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
