The Godzilla Minus One' director's first Hollywood movie sounds very exciting

Apparently, this was already known, but it passed me by: Takashi Yamazaki, director of the 2023 smash Godzilla Minus One, is making a live-action, English-language giant robot movie called Grandgear. Grandgear has been in development for a while, but at its CinemaCon presentation on Monday, Sony Pictures announced that it had picked the film up for release on Feb. 18, 2028. J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot is also on board. Yamazaki will write and direct. The movie hasn't begun shooting yet and, according to some reports, won't until next year. Nor has any casting been announced. But Sony showed the CinemaCon audience some test footage of a kaiju-style fight between two huge mecha that The Playlist said "looked fun and slicker than, say, the Pacific Rim universe." Yamazaki became an instant hot property when the Japanese-language Godzilla Minus One made an unexpected $113 million at the global box office on a modest $15 million budget. It's the third-biggest foreign-language movie of all time at the US box office, after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Life is Beautiful. It also won a triumphant Best Visual Effects Oscar at the 2024 Academy Awards, beating much bigger pr