
Godzilla Minus One isn't a "direct response" to Oppenheimer, says director Takashi Yamazaki – but he'd love to make a film that is one day.
In a new interview with MovieMaker, the filmmaker noted that it was "definitely a coincidence" that the Christopher Nolan-helmed biopic and his Japanese-language creature feature came out in 2023. Though he went on to theorize as to why that might be, claiming: "I think the threat of nuclear warfare is almost at its highest now, than in any other year that most of us have been alive.