Reiwa era

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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 Shin Godzilla and the trilogy of anime Godzilla films are set in different continuities.

Films

Shin Godzilla

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. Toho in the meantime had begun pre-production on its next Godzilla film, and hired Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi to write and direct the film. Following the financial success of Legendary's film, Toho formally announced production of its new film. Shin Godzilla was released in 2016, and was a considerable critical and financial success. Whether or not a sequel to Shin Godzilla or another live-action Toho Godzilla film will be released in the near future remains to be seen. However, the terms of Toho's contract with Legendary dictate that they cannot produce another live-action Godzilla film until after Godzilla vs. Kong is released in 2020.

• Shin Godzilla (2016)

GODZILLA Anime Trilogy

Following the release of Shin Godzilla, 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: Planet of the Monsters, and that it would be the first entry in a trilogy of anime Godzilla films. Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters'' was released to Japanese theaters in November 2017, and will be released worldwide via Netflix on January 17, 2018. The second entry is set for release in May 2018, with the third tentatively scheduled for release later in 2018.

• Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
• Godzilla: Chapter 2 (2018)
• Godzilla: Chapter 3 (2018)

Other Media

Officially licensed tie-in media for the Post-Millennium Godzilla films has been released.

Books

• The Art of Shin Godzilla - Art book for Shin Godzilla
• Shin Godzilla Walker: The New Legend of the King of the Monsters - Encyclopedia covering the Godzilla franchise up to Shin Godzilla
• Godzilla: Monster Apocalypse - Prequel novel to Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters
• GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters - Manga adaptation of the film

Video Games

• Shin Godzilla VR Demo
• Shin Arima
• Grand Summoners - Features Godzilla as a guest character

Monsters Introduced

• Servum
• Godzilla Filius

Trivia

• The Post-Millennium series is 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.

References

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See Also

• Showa era
• Heisei era
• Millennium era
• MonsterVerse