Godzilla Minus One director is back for a sequel

Godzilla Minus One? More like Godzilla Minus Two. Or maybe Godzilla Zero? There are many numerical possibilities, but the fact is: we’re getting another Godzilla movie from the team that brought us one of the great films — kaiju or not — of last year.

Toho International announced on Friday, timed to the 70th anniversary of the Godzilla property, that writer-director Takashi Yamazaki will ride the success of Godzilla Minus One to another film. The untitled follow-up has been officially greenlit by Toho, which the company announced in the best video that could have possibly revealed the news.

The announcement comes as Godzilla Minus One returns to theaters for the ultimate victory lap. Last year, the movie earned $115.8 million box office, making it Toho’s biggest entry of the franchise to date — including over $56 million alone in the U.S., a huge haul for an international film. The seismic impact carried Minus One all the way to the Oscars, where it picked up a win for Best VFX. Reinvesting in Yamazaki’s vision is a no-brainer; between Toho’s ambition for the franchise, currently harkening back to the horrors of the 1956 original, and Legendary’s evolving “MonsterVerse,” Godzilla might be our most malleable movie star, so why not more?

Anyone wanting to follow this news should proceed directly to their nearest multiplex, as Godzilla Minus One and the black-and-white version, Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color, are both playing around the States this weekend.