New Godzilla Minus One Trailer Shows Just How Unprepared Japan Is For The Kaiju King

Ahead of its US release on December 1, a new trailer has gone live for Godzilla Minus One. Like the previous trailer, this new teaser of the monster movie only offers a handful of new Godzilla footage, but when the king of the monsters appears, he brings untold devastation with him.

Set in post-World War II Japan, Godzilla Minus One follows several characters as they witness the arrival of Godzilla in a country that is still reeling from its defeat in the global conflict. With its army a shell of its former self, its navy in the process of being dismantled, and the US refusing to step in and assist Japan in case it provokes the Soviet Union into a new war, Japan is on its own and unprepared for Godzilla.

That doesn't mean that Japan isn't ready to fight back against Godzilla, but when you're facing a bipedal engine of mass destruction, there's only so much that conventional weaponry can do against the rampaging kaiju.

One neat thing that the trailer hints at is Godzilla's signature atomic breath attack, which in this incarnation, has a countdown indicated by his dorsal fins charging up and popping further out of his skin in an ominous fashion. If you'd like to catch the film earlier, you'll need to be in Japan, as it has just opened in cinemas there, 69 years to the day after the first film, Gojira, debuted in 1954.

Monsterverse fans have plenty to look forward to in the future, as Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is a new series coming to Apple TV and focuses on the organization that keeps tabs on all the Titans. Starring Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, Anna Sawai, Kiersey Clemons, and Ren Watabe, it'll be out in 2024. On the big screen, Godzilla X Kong will reunite the Big G with the ape wonder of the world as a new monster emerges to threaten the planet.