
TriStar had planned to produce a trilogy of Hollywood Godzilla films and began development on a sequel shortly after the first film's release alongside an animated series continuation. Following a lengthy development period which began in 1992, GODZILLA was released in 1998 to sizeable financial returns but a strongly negative response from critics and fans.

Now while the military fights Godzilla in the urban landscape, Nick and the French Secret Service venture below the city streets to find Godzilla's nest before it is too late.

Niko Tatopoulos worries that the monster, dubbed Godzilla, has reproduced asexually and that its offspring could overrun the city. The creature makes its way across Panama and swims to New York City, where the American military finds itself in an urban conflict theater as it tries to destroy the monster. The French government concludes this to be the work of a huge monster spawned by their nuclear testing in French Polynesia 30 years prior. The first attempt to adapt the Godzilla series by a Hollywood studio, GODZILLA begins with the fishing trawler Kobayashi Maru being pulled beneath the waves by an unknown force. The film was released to American theaters by TriStar on May 19, 1998, and to Japanese theaters by Toho on July 11, 1998. It stars Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Kevin Dunn, and Michael Lerner. Produced by TriStar Pictures and Centropolis Entertainment, it is the first American Godzilla film.

GODZILLA ( GOD ( ゴ ) ZILLA ( ジラ ), Gojira) is a 1998 American giant monster film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Dean Devlin with Emmerich, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio, with special effects by Volker Engel.
