Warner Bros. and Legendary have scheduled the next installment in their “Godzilla” franchise for a June 8, 2018 release.

Gareth Edwards, who is also developing one of the “Star Wars” stand-alone pics, returns as director of the monster movie sequel. At Comic-Con in July, Legendary revealed that Godzilla will be joined by a number of other iconic beasts from the long-running franchise — Mothra, Rodan and Ghidorah — in the next movie.

The last film grossed nearly $500 million dollars, making a follow-up something of an inevitability. Legendary financed 75% of “Godzilla’s” $160 million budget, with Warner providing the rest and the companies splitting marketing costs.

Legendary recently announced a “King Kong” prequel, “Skull Island,” which will bow November 2016.

Warner Bros. just did a big shakeup of its schedule that might be a bit of a bummer for all you Godzilla fans out there. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla 2 - which will allegedly include monsters like Mothra and Rodan - has been moved back from June 8, 2018 to March 22, 2019. That’s nine months, the amount of time it takes to create a human life. Reading between the lines, it seem making the film will take one more human sacrifice than early estimates claimed.

On the other hand, we finally have a release date for Godzilla vs. King Kong, which will come out May 29, 2020 - assuming the number of human sacrifices required has been accurately sussed out.

So when it comes to Warner’s Kaijuniverse, we have Kong: Skull Island coming March 10, 2017, Godzilla 2 two years later, and Godzilla vs. King Kong a little over a year after that.

EXCLUSIVE: Gareth Edwards has exited Godzilla 2. I’m told the exit was an amicable one for Legendary, Warner Bros and Edwards, who helmed the first film and promptly signed on to direct Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which looks from the trailer like it will be a strong next step for that franchise. Edwards has his own gestating projects he wanted to pursue, and they are smaller in scale than the back to back tent pole size pictures he is directing with the Godzilla launch and then the Star Wars spinoff. Max Borenstein wrote the current version of Godzilla 2, which was dated this week for release March 22, 2019. Edwards and Legendary had agreed to him stepping out before the picture’s date was set. Legendary and Warner Bros are looking for a director to replace him as they also work on Godzilla Vs Kong, which has also been set for May 20, 2020 release. Latter film was made possible when Kong: Skull Island was brought back from Universal to Warner Bros, where Legendary made Godzilla. Legendary acquired rights to additional classic characters from Toho’s Godzilla universe, including Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. All this paves the way for developing a franchise centered around Monarch and anchored by Godzilla, King Kong, and other famous creatures.