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‘Shin Godzilla’ Sequel Cannot Be Made Until After 2020
Don’t expect a new Toho Godzilla film any time soon.
With Legendary knee deep in their “MonsterVerse” and Toho recently releasing Shin Godzilla, you may be wondering what’s going on with the rights to the Godzilla character.
As it turns out, Legendary inked a multi-year deal with Toho that will allow them to make upcoming films Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong… but that’s only one end of the deal.
Shin Godzilla co-director Shinji Higuchi made crystal clear sense of the deal during his Q&A at G-Fest XXIV over the weekend, bumming out the entire crowd when he revealed that the parntership with Legendary means that Toho can’t make another Godzilla film until AFTER 2020.
“A lot of people have questions. ‘When is the next Japanese Godzilla movie coming out?’ They cannot make it until after 2020,” Higuchi told the G-Fest audience.
In other words, Toho has to wait until Legendary finishes Godzilla vs. Kong (set for a 2020 release) before they can begin work on either a Shin Godzilla sequel or any film featuring Godzilla. At this time, we have no idea what plans will be post-2020, but Higuchi did note that he’d gladly direct another Godzilla movie if asked.
Meanwhile, Shin Godzilla is headed to Stateside home video on August 1st.
Jump forward to the 12:00 mark for the full story behind the deal, which led to Shin Godzilla being rushed into production so as not to clash with Legendary’s projects.
In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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