Takashi Yamazaki, the Japanese Oscar-winning director of Godzilla Minus One and the upcoming Godzilla Minus Zero, will make his English-language debut on Grandgear for Sony Pictures. J.J. Abrams’ Robot is producing.
Sam Nivola and Nico Parker have joined the production, and Paul Giamatti, who stars in A24’s awards hopeful The Debut, is understood to be in talks to join the cast. Yamazaki wrote the original screenplay however plot details remain under the proverbial wraps. Glen Zipper is producing alongside Abrams.
Yamazaki became the first director since Stanley Kubrick to win a visual effects Oscar with Godzilla Minus One in 2024. That film grossed $113m worldwide and Yamazaki’s follow-up, Godzilla Minus Zero, is scheduled to open in the US on November 6 through GKids.
Nivola earned an Actor Award nomination for The White Lotus and has starred in White Noise and Maestro. He stars in Hulu’s mystery series Phony that just premiered in the US.
UK actress Nico won the 2024 Sundance US Dramatic special jury award for breakthrough performance award for Searchlight’s Suncoast, and was nominated for a 2024 supporting actress Bafta for HBO series The Last Of Us. She also played the female lead in DreamWorks Animation’s live-action How To Train Your Dragon.
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