{"id":584494,"date":"2026-04-14T22:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584494\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T22:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:36:09","slug":"the-new-movie-from-takashi-yamazaki-could-be-the-new-pacific-rim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/584494\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Movie From Takashi Yamazaki Could Be the New ‘Pacific Rim’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If Takashi Yamazaki<\/a> never made another movie, he\u2019d already be a film legend. After making a name for himself in Japan over the past several decades, he broke out internationally in 2023 with the release of Godzilla Minus One<\/a>, for which he became the first director since Stanley Kubrick to win an Oscar for visual effects.<\/a><\/p>\n

That success opened a lot of doors for him. We know he expressed interest in doing something<\/a> Star Wars-related,\u00a0and, later this year, we\u2019ll see his follow-up to Minus One, Godzilla Minus Zero.<\/a><\/p>\n

But after that, things get even more exciting. Next up for Yamazaki is his first English-language film, which Sony Pictures is distributing, and it gave CinemaCon 2026 a sneak peek. The film, called Grandgear, is being produced by J.J. Abrams and will hit theaters on February 18, 2028. So it\u2019s almost two years away. However, a brief teaser screened at the event revealed that the movie is about giant freaking robots.<\/p>\n

The footage showed a sleek, almost Gundam-type robot in the middle of the street posing and facing off with something. Across from it, there\u2019s another robot, this one still made of metal but with a more alien look. (Its head was shaped like a semi-obscure Star Wars alien called an \u201cAmani.\u201d<\/a>) The two robots run at each other and crash, with one of them smashing a huge gun out of the hand of the other. The gun flips backward in slow motion, crashing on the street, destroying a car.<\/p>\n

And that was it. Is this final footage? Proof of concept? Who is in this movie, and what\u2019s it about? We have zero clue. But the Oscar-winning Takashi Yamazaki writing and directing a giant robot movie for Sony, with J.J. Abrams as a producer, is really all we need to know. Plus that title. \u201cGrandgear.\u201d That\u2019s cool as hell, too.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Takashi Yamazaki never made another movie, he\u2019d already be a film legend. After making a name for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[232746,88,255909,206,232747],"class_list":{"0":"post-584494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cinemacon","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-grandgear","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-takashi-yamazaki"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}