For a long time it seemed like Godzilla would never be scary again. While the most famous of giant movie screen monsters to stomp around a metropolis began as a sober, menacing metaphor for the dangers of nuclear weapons in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 masterpiece that started it all, the Big G soon became a creature of adoration and even humor for generations of children.

The way that Shinji Higuchi tells it when he steps into our studio at San Diego Comic-Con, the filmmaker was even asked constantly by friends and colleagues who Godzilla was going to fight next after Higuchi earned the chance to co-direct the first Japanese Godzilla movie in over a decade.

“Whether it’s King Ghidorah or Mechagodzilla, there is going to be some kind of antagonist for Godzilla,” Higuchi says of the convention

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