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The Post-Millennium era is a placeholder term currently used to refer to any Godzilla films produced by Toho Company Ltd. after 2004. The Post-Millennium era overlaps with Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse time-wise, but is considered to be a separate series due to being produced by a separate studio and not sharing continuity with the MonsterVerse.
Worth noting is that "Post-Millennium" is only an unofficial placeholder term, as Toho has not designated any of its recent Godzilla films as comprising a distinct "era," such as the Showa, Heisei or Millennium series, and will be replaced if Toho chooses to name a new era. The term "Post-Millennium" is used because all of these films were released after the close of the Millennium series in 2004, and are not themselves considered part of the Millennium series. The films classified as "Post-Millennium" also do not all share continuity, as Godzilla Resurgence and the upcoming trilogy of anime Godzilla films are set in different continuities.
Films
Godzilla Resurgence
In 2004, Toho announced that Godzilla: Final Wars, the sixth and final entry in the Millennium series, would be the last Godzilla film for a period of at least ten years. In 2014, the American studio Legendary Pictures produced Godzilla, which would kick off the studio's MonsterVerse series of films. Following the American film's financial success, Toho was convinced to finally begin production on its next Godzilla film, and hired Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi to write and direct the film. Godzilla Resurgence was released in 2016, and was a considerable critical and financial success. Whether or not a sequel to Godzilla Resurgence or another live-action Toho Godzilla film will be released in the near future remains to be seen.
- Godzilla Resurgence (2016)
GODZILLA Anime Trilogy
Following the release of Godzilla Resurgence, Toho Animation announced that it would be partnering with animation studio Polygon Pictures to produce the first-ever animated Godzilla film, tentatively scheduled for a 2017 theatrical release in Japan. In March 2017, Toho revealed the film's title, GODZILLA: Monster Planet, and that it would be the first entry in a trilogy of anime Godzilla films. GODZILLA: Monster Planet will be released to Japanese theaters in November 2017, and worldwide via Netflix sometime afterward. Titles and release dates for the second and third anime films have not yet been revealed.
- GODZILLA: Monster Planet (2017)
- GODZILLA: Chapter 2 (20??)
- GODZILLA: Chapter 3 (20??)
Trivia
- The Post-Millennium series will be the first series of Godzilla films to include a fully-animated Godzilla film.
- The existence of the Post-Millennium series and MonsterVerse marks the first-ever instance of two separate series of Godzilla films running concurrently.
- Such a scenario could have occurred in the early 2000's, when Toho was producing the Millennium series films while TriStar Pictures considered various Godzilla-related projects of its own, had TriStar not elected to simply let its rights revert back to Toho.
