Gamera Forever is a 2026 monster movie. The fourth American Gamera film and 17th overall it is the sequel to Gamera Invasion(2025), Gamera Returns (2024) and Gamera (2023 film). The film stars Tom Hiddleston (who also directs the film), Ken Watanabe, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Hiroyuki Sanada, Tilda Swinton (all returning from previous movies) and Jonah Hill. In the film Earth and Gamera fight a final battle against the Thorians. The film was released on January 5th 2026 to critical and commercial success. The film grossed 1 billion dollars on a 810 million dollar budget.
Plot[]
A year after the Thorian Invasion passes and Earth returns to normal. On Thoria the new commander and supreme leader Terran leads several UFOs with nuclear warheads to Earth threatening to drop them. Gamera arrives destroying them all except for the American UFO which he knocks into the Atlantic Ocean. A squid monster Viras arrives and he battles Gamera in Washington. Aki Kobayashi and James Howard attack Terran's ship with Dragonhead II but is attacked by Queen Bee a radiated bee. Raymond Reddick, Fina, Hank Lowery and Shinichi Yuasa fight a dragon Anon who blows up the wing of their ship Atlas and helps fight Gamera knocking him into the ocean before leaving. Several clones of previous monsters such as Barugon, Super Gyaos and Evascythe. Terran deploys Anon on Area 51 who destroys both Area 51 and Dragonhead II. A giant octopus is found dead having been killed by Gamera. Gamera then emerges on Hong Kong and fights the Barugon clone killing it. Reddick finds out that Gamera became more aggressive. Gamera fights and kills Super Gyaos in Beijing and Evascythe who hasn't been fully prepared in Sydney. Howard and Fina invade Terran's ship only for it to be revealed as a decoy. Anon attacks it but is distracted by Dragonhead III. Howard reveals that the ship has actually all of Terran's codes. They use a code which uses a faceswap. They disguise themselves as guards and attack the ship from inside with the Dragonhead III crew attacking outside. Fina uses a code which summons all the monsters to London. Fina uses another code which disables a mind control device causing all of Terran's monsters to attack each other with Anon killing Viras. Terran reveals two surviving clones of Zedus and Guiron and the dragon Rogue. Gamera arrives battling all the monster killing them except for Clone Zedus and Rogue. Terran uses a laser beam cannon against the Dragonhead III crew and Gamera but Hank uses a reflective shield which redirects the beam at the ship destroying it just as Thoria explodes. Hank pushes Kobayashi out of the way of falling debris and is killed. Gamera uses a plasma fireball to kill Clone Zedus when suddenly Rogue then shapeshifts to having the legs of Barugon, the wings of Gyaos and Queen Bee, tentacles of Viras, giant octopus and Evascythe, tail of Anon, the knifehead of Guiron, the legs of Jiger and Zigra, the tongue of Zedus and the head of Rogue. Gamera is nearly killed by the Rogue hybrid who then rampages destroying Big Ben and Tower Bridge. The Dragonhead III is self destructed in order to heal Gamera but Rogue destroys it killing Reddick. Gamera then has his life flash over him where he miraculously gets up and fights Rogue. Gamera tries to kill him only for him to constantly heal. Suddenly several other Thorian spaceships arrive and shoot lasers at Gamera. Gamera then grabs Rogue and flies into the UFOs self destructing killing him, Rogue and all the Thorian spaceships. In 2027 a Gamera museum is opened up and Howard and Yuasa plan their life ahead while Fina and Kobayashi find a Gamera egg.
Crew[]
- Directed by : Tom Hiddleston
- Written by : Tom Hiddleston
- Produced by: Guillermo del Toro
- Music by Bear McCreary
- Edited by Bob Duscay and Michael Kahn
- Production Company: Universal Studios
- Distributed by Universal ( worldwide) and Kadokawa (Japan)
Cast[]
- Tom Hiddleston as James Howard
- Ken Watanabe as Shinichi Yuasa
- Dwayne Johnson as Raymond Reddick
- Jack Black as Hank Lowery
- Hiroyuki Sanada as Aki Kobayashi
- Tilda Swinton as Fina
- Jonah Hill as Terran
- CGI was used to portray the monsters
Production[]
Due to the success of Gamera Invasion a sequel was immediately greenlighted. One draft of a film was to have Gamera battle a giant warmonger from Thoria and another involved Gamera's origins. Hiddleston said that he bingewatched the entire Gamera series while writing the script. Shooting began on September and wrapped up on December.
Release[]
The film was released on January 5th 2026 on Los Angeles.
Reception[]
Box Office[]
Gamera Forever grossed 1 billion dollars on a 810 million dollar budget becoming the 3rd highest grossing film of 2026 and highest grossing Gamera movie.
Reception[]
Gamera Forever received positive reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes the film received a score of 89% based on 288 reviews with the rating being 8/10. The consensus reads "Gamera Forever provides more of a satisfying ending than Gamera Super Monster". On Metacritic it gained the score of 80 out of 100 indicating generally favourite reviews.
Trivia[]
- Terran's name is a reference to Terra the home planet of Guiron.
- Hiddleston's 2nd draft features a several Gamera origins. They are more specified in the novelisation. According to the novelisation Gamera will reincarnate in an egg which can only be found by the worthy and loyal.
- Rogue was originally going to be a 25m bat who was the pet of the warmonger Akichin.
- The rights to Gamera reverted to Kadokawa shortly after. A manga adaptation of all the 4 movies were released.