New Godzilla Minus One Trailer Shows Just How Unprepared Japan Is For The Kaiju King

Ahead of its US launch on December 1, a brand new trailer has gone reside for Godzilla Minus One. Like the earlier trailer, this new teaser of the monster film solely affords a handful of recent Godzilla footage, however when the king of the monsters seems, he brings untold devastation with him.

Set in post-World War II Japan, Godzilla Minus One follows a number of characters as they witness the arrival of Godzilla in a rustic that’s nonetheless reeling from its defeat within the international battle. With its military a shell of its former self, its navy within the strategy of being dismantled, and the US refusing to step in and help Japan in case it provokes the Soviet Union into a brand new battle, Japan is by itself and unprepared for Godzilla.

That doesn’t suggest that Japan is not able to struggle again in opposition to Godzilla, however once you’re dealing with a bipedal engine of mass destruction, there’s solely a lot that typical weaponry can do in opposition to the rampaging kaiju.

One neat factor that the trailer hints at is Godzilla’s signature atomic breath assault, which on this incarnation, has a countdown indicated by his dorsal fins charging up and popping additional out of his pores and skin in an ominous trend. If you’d wish to catch the movie earlier, you will have to be in Japan, because it has simply opened in cinemas there, 69 years to the day after the primary movie, Gojira, debuted in 1954.

Monsterverse followers have loads to sit up for sooner or later, as Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a brand new sequence coming to Apple TV and focuses on the group that retains tabs on all of the Titans. Starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, and Ren Watabe, it’s going to be out in 2024. On the large display screen, Godzilla X Kong will reunite the Big G with the ape surprise of the world as a brand new monster emerges to threaten the planet.