The past few years have not only given us truly great sci-fi films like Dune, Everywhere All at Once, Project Hail Mary, as well as great Kaiju films. Be it the MonsterVerse’s Godzilla x Kong franchise or Takashi Yamazaki’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One, which took the world by storm and fueled a new love for the monsters. The fans are winning on all sides.
Later this year, fans are gearing up for Dune: Part Three, which will be the last installment of Denis Villeneuve’s magnum opus. The giant will clash with the MCU’s own sci-fi entry Avengers: Doomsday, which will unravel the multiverse. But before those, there is a bigger giant that’ll have the fans’ attention: Godzilla Minus Zero, the highly anticipated sequel to Yamazaki’s Oscar-winning feature.
The film is a direct sequel set two years after the events of Godzilla Minus One, as we follow the Shikishima family in a recovering Japan, as a fully regenerated, larger, and more ferocious Godzilla returns. After dropping the first teaser for the film earlier this year, Toho followed it up with a breathtaking first trailer to hype the fans, and this time around the scope is massive given the bigger budget, and it’s even made for IMAX. Godzilla Minus One was a surprise hit, as the word-of-mouth praise made the movie highly intriguing for fans, who were taken by an incredibly humane story with brilliant spectacle.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🏜️Paul Atreides
🖖Capt. Kirk
✊Princess Leia
🔦Ellen Ripley
🔥Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
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What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
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How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
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You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
06
What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
Godzilla Minus Zero Is the Second-Longest Movie in the Franchise
Starring Ryûnosuke Kamiki as Kōichi Shikishima and Minami Hamabe as Noriko Ôishi, Godzilla Minus One made $116 million worldwide on a $10 million budget and earned a 99 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating. So, the bar is in heaven for Yamazaki and team to triumph their previous work. However, one element of the film is certainly garnering the attention of fans: its runtime, Godzilla Minus Zero is 2 hours and 15 minutes long, making it the second-longest movie in the 70-year-old franchise. In contrast, Godzilla Minus One was 2 hours and 5 minutes long, while the longest movie is Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla,released in 1998, starring Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, and more. Its runtime exceeds Minus One by a small margin, standing at 2 hours and 19 minutes. This officially makes Godzilla Minus Zero the longest Japanese-produced film in the entire franchise.
Godzilla Minus Zero roars into theaters starting November 6 in the US. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.