Godzilla Minus Zero has set its 2026 release date in North America for the highly anticipated sequel from director Takashi Yamazaki.
During the most recent San Diego Comic-Con in July, it was revealed that filming on the sequel is set to begin on August 30 under the working title Super Blockbuster Monster Movie. The follow-up has also been confirmed as another period piece.
The film will be released in North America via GKids on November 6, 2025, just a few days after the film premieres in Japan on November 3 (which is Godzilla Day in Japan).
Godzilla Minus One was a sleeper hit in 2023, grossing $115 million from an extremely modest budget of only $15 million. The film also took home an Academy Award for best visual effects, a first in the franchise's storied history.
Minus One ended its North American theatrical run as the 3rd highest-grossing foreign-language film of all-time after Life is Beautiful and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Other than Yamazaki's return there are no other confirmed details about the sequel at this time, although several of the original cast are expected to return as well.
It's also thought (but unconfirmed at this time) that Yamazaki will introduce a kaiju adversary for Godzilla to face in Minus Zero, potentially Mecha Godzilla. That expectation is based on comments he made in a recent interview with Empire Magazine.
"I don’t know if anyone has achieved a more serious tone of kaiju vs kaiju with human drama, that challenge, is something I would like to explore," he told the magazine.
"When you have movies that feature [kaiju battles], I think it's very easy to put the spotlight and the camera on this massive spectacle, and it detaches itself from the human drama component."
"In the final days of World War II, a small group of Japanese soldiers encounter a dinosaur-like creature on a remote island and are massacred—leaving only two survivors. Two years later, the creature, now many times its original size and capable of shooting thermonuclear breath, appears and begins attacking ships off the coast of Japan—moving ever closer to the still-devastated, post-war Japanese mainland."