It’s a bad time to be a puny human, whether you’re cowering in fear as a massive kaiju lays waste to your country, or stuck in a post-apocalyptic nightmare where apes are at the top of the food chain.

In Godzilla Minus One, Japan is in a state of utter chaos in this film, set some time after World War II, as a gargantuan beast plows through a city leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. This iteration of Godzilla is “an unknown organism” to the terrified citizens.

Godzilla Minus One is Toho’s 33rd Godzilla film, and the 37th Godzilla film ever made, and is meant to celebrate the 69th anniversary of the studio’s first Godzilla movie, released on November 3rd, 1954. The movie’s Japanese release coincides with this date, while the US release date is slated for November 29th.

Godzilla Minus One is written and directed by CG animator and VFX artist Takashi Yamazaki and stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando and Kuranosuke Sasaki.

The film is Yamazaki’s third onscreen depiction of Godzilla, who depicted the monster lizard with CG imagery in Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 (2007) and Seibu-en’s Godzilla the Ride (2021).

It’s no picnic for people in the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, either, thanks to some damn dirty apes.

The movie, directed Wes Ball (Maze Runner trilogy), “breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike,” according to the official description.

Set several year’s after 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes, which saw the heroic Caesar (Andy Serkis) die at the end, the fourth entry in the modern Planet of the Apes saga will be set several generations later in a world where apes are now the dominant species and humanity can only hide – or run.

The original Planet of the Apes series consisted of six films, which were released between 1968 and 2001. The first of several reboot films, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, was released in 2011. It was then followed by Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in 2014 and War for the Planet of the Apes in 2017.

Disney acquired 20th Century Fox in April 2019 and announced more films in the franchise would go into production.

Owen Teague, Kevin Durand, Freya Allen, William H. Macy and Peter Macon star in the film, which was written by Josh Friedman, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Patrick Aison. Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping are the executive producers.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is due in theaters on May 24th, 2004.