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Potential ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Sequel Officially Confirmed

Nairavoice · Nov 5, 2026 · 5 min read

Hannah covers horror, sci-fi, and games at Collider, where she writes news and features, reviews new releases, and interviews the people who make them. She’s helping build out Collider‘s gaming coverage, with Pokémon as one of her specialties. If she isn’t writing about a monster, she’s probably watching one on a tape from her VHS collection.

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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What Could a Third Godzilla Movie Explore After ‘Minus Zero’?

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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.