The First Trailer for 'Godzilla Minus Zero' Takes Terror Stateside

Godzilla might have sunk to the depths of the ocean defeated at the end of Godzilla Minus One, but you can’t keep a good monster down for long—especially when Minus One went on to make kaiju history as a worldwide and award-winning success. Now, three years later, we’re ready for writer-director Takashi Yamazaki to take us back to Godzilla’s world… and it’s definitely a much bigger world this time around. After screening to audiences earlier today at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, Toho and GKids have now officially released the first teaser trailer for Godzilla Minus Zero, a direct sequel to the 2023 instant classic. Set in 1949, two years after the events of Minus One, Godzilla Minus Zero sees the return of Ryunosuke Kamiki and Minami Hamabe as the protagonists of the film, reprising their roles as Koichi Shikishima and Noriko Oishi as they still navigate the traumas left behind from their unlikely survivals of Godzilla’s first attack on Tokyo. So neither of them is likely too pleased that Godzilla’s back again to cause havoc and stronger than ever. Even from the brief glimpses of the carnage we see here in the trailer, it’s clear Minus Zero is going even grander in its action scale (the