Why was Godzila Minus One so Cheap to Make?

The Oscar winning team behind Godzilla Minus One made the film on a shockingly low budget. Here’s how they did it!
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[@cwega2463]

it’s a mix of things. cheaper labour in japan; longer working hours; more unpaid overtime. and a generous schedule.
cheaper resources in general as hollywood as expedited everything, including cost, and no unnecessary money was wasted.
the production process was streamlined with the director being hands on with everything, so there was no need for secondary and tertiary lines of producers that have to approve everything.
and the director is a master at using small budgets. he is great with getting the most out of small sets or locations, and making them feel large, especially when utilising CGI.
and biggest of all, no greedy CEO’s, overpaid actors, or tax fraud business expenses wrote as being apart of the films budget.
it’s also probably the first genuinely fantastic looking CGI heavy japanese film. at least on this scale. being honest, they usually look pretty shit. even Shin Godzilla from a few years ago, while a fine film, looked really weird sometimes.

[@BadAtPickingUsernames]

Also, VFX teams in Japan are probably also paid a lot less than in Hollywood.

[@WayStedYou]

And they only hired 50 people instead of 500 for dune or 2500 for endgame etc.

[@jebroz4810]

I think it also comes from japan ethical work. They are not kind of people who tend to be cash grabber like western studios. They love what they do.

[@BadAtPickingUsernames]

@@jebroz4810 You should look up the difference between work ethic and ethical work.

[@cwega2463]

if any hollywood production on this scale wanted to have the same level of finesse, management, and proficiency that this film does, it would probably still cost them $80-120 million.

[@Aaronthebald]

First!

[@tradingwizard562]

In Africa it would have been made for $10 😂 .

[@mortalvolt85]

It was cheap because they didn't have to pay actor's 100 million each for sub par acting and the director did a ton of the work on his own and on his time wasn't under a time crunch where they forced a ton of people getting paid too much for trash

[@destroyerzilla7634]

Minus One is an exception, the average Japanese film is cheap CGI and cheap acting

[@Art.chemist_]

This movie was such a hard watch for me because of all the animal violence, had to step out of the theater a few times😢

[@kingvega666]

Wtf are you on about?