TOHO Announces New Godzilla Writer & Director!

It looks like they’ve announced Shinji Higuchi is directing a new Godzilla movie, who’ll also be in charge of special effects, supervised by Hideaki Anno (the creator of the Evangelion series), who’s writing the script. Article reports filming in starting this Autumn and it’s scheduled to be in cinemas Summer 2016.

http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0072052

It looks like that this is legit and not a April Fools joke. I'm very surprise to hear this news.

so no word yet on if godzilla will be by himself or be fighting someone?

I would imagine that they would use a original new monster if Legendary is using the classic monsters for the sequels.

So, the end of the movie will just be cheap hand puppets, then?

if this is a joke i swear to god

A reminder that Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno gave us THIS. (First link I could find.) Making a Godzilla movie is pretty much Anno's dream so this is pretty exciting.

Not excited about Anno on it at all.

If any of you think this is at all a bad thing, go and Google his "Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo" short and reflect on your comment.

Having Anno on a Godzilla film is nowhere near a bad thing.

Anno made a pretty long post explaining why he took the offer to work on the new Godzilla movie.

https://www.facebook.com/Tamashii.US...62590133760152

Anno is a big Toku fan. He loves Ultraman and it's cool to see that he still watches Sentai regularly. It would be cool if Anno ever directed a Ultraman, Sentai or Rider show in the near future.

I'm sorry, but all I think of is Evangelion. I know he has done other works, but I just picture the next movie featuring the main character masturbating over the main female while whining about his father and Godzilla shows up 2 hours into the movie for a 45 second fight sequence. It will then end with a clip show of what happened at the start of the movie.

Now please, do not take that post literally.