Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters

Godzilla: Monster Planet ＧＯＤＺＩＬＬＡ怪獣惑星 (Gojira Kaijū Wakusei) is an upcoming Japanese animated produced by Toho Company Ltd. and Polygon Pictures. It is the 30th film in the Godzilla series and the first animated film in the franchise. It will be released to Japanese theaters in November of 2017.

Development
On August 18, 2016, Toho announced that an animated Godzilla film is currently in the works for a 2017 theatrical premiere, with Gen Urobuchi as the writer, and Kobun Shizuno and Hiroyuki Seshita as the directors.

On January 19, 2017, six members of the film's main voice cast were revealed, alongside a piece of concept art with what appears to be a duo of unknown mechs and human soldiers walking through a forest. Alongside this announcement was that of the film's scheduled stage event at AnimeJapan 2017 on March 26, 2017.

On February 24, 2017, more concept art for the film was revealed via the film's twitter, showing a vehicle that looks oddly like the Super X from the Heisei era of Godzilla movies.

March 6 yielded more fruit when another concept image was posted on the Godzilla anime's official Twitter once more. This time, the piece depicts two people in heavy duty suits walking through a foggy forest full of spiny trees.

On March 13, it was announced that the film will release on Netflix later in the year, following a theatrical release in Japan.

More concept art for the film was revealed on the 16th and 22nd, respectively.

On the 22nd, a promotional flyer was given out to the buyers of the Shin Godzilla Blu-Ray release in Japan, which revealed the film's full name of Godzilla: Monster Planet.

On the 24th, an official description for the anime was revealed via the film's official site, shown below. Alongside this was news of the film's release date, which has been slated for November, 2017.

On the 31st, a featurette for the film was revealed. It possessed interviews with voice actors, some previews into the development of the film, including the creation and rendering of models within the film. It was filmed and subtitled entirely in Japanese.



Plot
"The last summer of the 20th Century. That day, the human beings learn that they are not the only ruler of the planet Earth. The appearance of the giant living creatures “Kaiju's” and the ultimate existence that destroys all monsters: Godzilla. Through the battle against kaiju’s that lasted for half a century, human beings has experienced continuous defeat, and finally plans to escape from the Earth. And in 2048, only those who were selected by the A.I. managed under the central government boarded the inter-sidereal emigrant spaceship “Aratrum” to head for “Tau Cetus e”, the planet beyond the distance of 11.9 light-year. However, the environmental condition differences between that of the Earth and Tau e, which they finally arrived after 20 years were far beyond the predicted numbers, and was not an environment considered to be habitable by human beings. The young man on the emigrant ship: Haruo, who saw his parents killed by Godzilla in front of his eyes when he was 4 years old, had only one thing in his mind for 20 years: to return to the Earth and defeat Godzilla. Shut out from the possibility of emigration, as the living environment in the ship deteriorates, the group of “Earth Returnists” led by Haruo became the majority, and determines to head back to Earth through a dangerous long-distance hyperspace navigation. However, the Earth they have returned has already passed the time of 20,000 years, and has become an unknown world with the ecosystem reigned by Godzilla. At the end, will human beings win back the Earth? And what will Haruo see beyond his fate…?"

- Story introduction

Monsters

 * Godzilla (2017 design)
 * Anguirus
 * Rodan
 * Orga
 * Kamacuras
 * Dagahra
 * Dogora

Future
On March 25, at the Animation Film Godzilla Special Stage event at AnimeJapan 2017, it was announced that Monster Planet is the first in a planned trilogy of animated Godzilla films.

Trivia

 * This will be the first Godzilla film to not be a live-action film.
 * This is the second Godzilla movie to have 2 directors.
 * The subtitle of this film is based on a 1994 Godzilla simulator title, Monster Planet of Godzilla, which screened only at a Tokyo theme park called Sanrio Puroland.