Godzilla 2000 (1999)

Godzilla 2000: Millennium Gojira Nisen: Mireniamu) is a 1999 Japanese kaiju film directed by Takao Okawara and written by Hiroshi Kashiwabara and Wataru Mimura. It was the twenty-third film released in the Godzilla series. It is the only film to feature Orga. The film was released on December 11, 1999. Sony Pictures Entertainment's TriStar division released the film in the United States in 2000 as Godzilla 2000, the last in the Godzilla series to make a North American theatrical run. This film effectively begins and sets the tone for the Millennium series: It ignores continuity established by any previous films, instead preserving only the original Godzilla and working other appearances into the intervening years. Despite that it's the first movie in the Millennium series, Godzilla 2000 and the rest of the Millennium Godzilla movies where filmed in the Heisei Era.