Toho International is invading San Diego Comic-Con! The company behind the King of the Monsters just announced that they’re going to be hosting a panel to celebrate everybody’s favorite kaiju at this year’s convention, which begins next week in California, featuring some of the people that help bringing Godzilla to life across not only our screens, but our favorite products and comic books as well.
Godzilla at 70: Seven Decades of the King of the Monsters, which takes place on Friday, July 25 at 4:15 p.m. PT in Room 6DE of the San Diego Convention Center, will spotlight nearly a century of Godzilla stories, across film, comics, television, and collectibles. Moderated by The Wrap’s Drew Taylor, the panel features Shin Godzilla co-director Shinji Higuchi, Super7 founder Brian Flynn, Mondo’s Hector Arce and Peter Santa, and Bandai’s Jeff Gordon, as well as comics writers Brian Buccellato, Tim Seeley, and Gerry Duggan, and editor Jake Williams.
This panel is just the latest celebration of the monster's seventieth birthday. He’s looking good for an old man, as Toho recently released a video to celebrate his anniversary that features him showing off a special new green atomic breath, a colorful upgrade of one of his most iconic powers. He’s also got several theme park rides in the works, including one from Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki.
If you can’t make it to Comic-Con this year though — as plenty of people can’t — there’s definitely still a lot of content to look forward to in the near future. He’s got almost as much lined up as Marvel’s greatest heroes, with not only a sequel to Godzilla Minus One currently in the works, but the MonsterVerse sequel Godzilla x Kong: Supernova hitting theaters in 2027, starring Sam Neill, Dan Stevens, Kaitlin Dever, and Matthew Modine, and a second season of Kurt and Wyatt Russell’s Monarch: Legacy of Monsters coming to Apple TV+ soon. And to boot, Shin Godzilla is also making a return to theaters this August.
Toho’s Godzilla panel takes place on Friday, July 25. For more information on the panel and other news, you can check out the King of the Monster’s official website.
