Rodan, the Fire Demon

Rodan, the Fire Demon (火の悪魔ラドン Hi no akuma Radon) is an upcoming American science-fiction monster film directed by Alexandre Aja. It is intended to be the second film in Raydon Studios' Kaiju Universe. The film is also the second in the Rodan franchise and the first solo film featuring the character since 1956's Rodan. The film stars an ensemble cast.

The project was announced in October 2019 when Raydon Studios announced plans for a shared cinematic universe based on Godzilla, and unrelated to Legendary's MonsterVerse. The studio revealed an initial slate of Mothra! (2020), Rodan (2021), Ghidorah: Planet Destroyer (2021) and Godzilla (2022) with Rodan scheduled to release May 21, 2021. Principal photography was scheduled to begin in June 2020 in Mexico but was pushed to November 2020. Principal photography wrapped in March 2021. The film was titled Rodan, the Fire Demon in March 2021, the same time it was pushed from November 2020 until May 2021. The film was pushed again to its current date of November 4, 2022 and will release exclusively on Paramount+.

Synopsis
"A mining operation in Chile unknowingly disturbs a colony of Meganulon who swarm the miners and trap them underground. They're eventually rescued by a recently hatched Rodan who begins to feed on the Meganulon and grows in stature. It escapes the mine and wreaks havoc before coming face-to-face with the colony's queen: Megaguirus."

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While no sequel to Rodan is currently in development, a number of monster films set in the same continuity as Rodan are in various forms of development. Monster Zero will be released on May 20, 2022, followed by Rise of Godzilla on November 4, 2022 with future projects also including a King Kong reboot and a film staring Baragon from the Godzilla franchise, as well as two direct sequels to Rise of Godzilla.