Godzilla: The First 70 Years (2025)

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Godzilla: The First 70 Years
Godzilla: The First 70 Years
Author(s)
Publisher Abrams Books
Publish date July 15, 2025
Pages 432[1]
Genre Nonfiction, informational,
film production
ISBN ISBN-10: 1419762117
ISBN-13: 978-1419762116
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This article concerns an upcoming subject, and will be updated with new information as it arises.

Godzilla: The First 70 Years, subtitled The Official Illustrated History, 1954–2024, is an upcoming American informational book on the Godzilla franchise by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski. It includes a foreword by famed film director John Carpenter and Miki Saegusa actress Megumi Odaka, as well as an afterword by Heisei- and Millennium-era Godzilla producer Shogo Tomiyama. It is set to be published by Abrams Books on July 15, 2025.[1]

Description

Godzilla: The First 70 Years is a narrative and visual history of the King of the Monsters, chronicling the triumphs, challenges, and meaning of seven decades of city-trashing, kaiju-smashing mayhem. It is also a tribute to Godzilla’s creators and costars—the filmmakers, special-effects wizards, cast members, even the stuntmen inside the monster suit—and an appreciation of the behind-the-scenes artistry involved in bringing Godzilla to cinematic life, then and now.

Exclusive behind-the-scenes photography, production materials, posters, lobby cards, and collectibles will illustrate this overview of The Showa Era films (1954-1975); The Heisei Era films (1984-1998’s Godzilla film produced by TriStar); the Millenium Series (1999-2004); Legendary Films’s Monsterverse; and the Reiwa Era (2016-present), including the 2023 box office phenomenon
Godzilla Minus One. Extensive visuals detail the different evolutions of kaiju design, as well as profile the creative contribution and SFX developments across seven decades of filmmaking and innovation.[1]

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Trivia

  • Though frequent collaborators, this is the first Godzilla-specific book Ryfle and Godziszewski have written together.
  • The book's description erroneously groups TriStar Pictures' GODZILLA into the Heisei series. It is unknown whether the book will repeat this.

External links

References

This is a list of references for Godzilla: The First 70 Years. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Godzilla: The First 70 Years: The Official Illustrated History, 1954–2024". Amazon. Retrieved 23 September 2024.

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