Downtown CDMX paralyzed by Godzilla — the movie

There were immoderate perfectly terrifying scenes successful the bosom of Mexico City implicit the play — radical successful a panic dodging stalled cars arsenic they ran similar huffy down 1 of the capital’s biggest streets.

But it was lone a movie.

Scenes were being changeable successful the Mexican superior for the caller Godzilla film, “Godzilla x Kong: Supernova,” which is expected to deed theaters successful March 2027.

The sixth Godzilla movie to beryllium afloat produced by a Hollywood workplace — and the 39th Godzilla movie overall, dating backmost to the 1954 Japanese archetypal — is simply a sequel to the 2024 blockbuster “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.”

Mexico City isn’t the lone shooting location. Scenes volition besides beryllium changeable successful London, Utah and respective Australian cities.

But the closure of a information of the large thoroughfare Paseo de la Reforma connected Saturday led to the images of pandemonium.

Afterward, videos flooded TikTok and X and different societal media, showing crowds of extras moving and screaming, racing distant from an unseen menace arsenic if they were successful fearfulness for their lives.

Though immoderate bystanders were astatine archetypal unsure if they were witnessing an existent catastrophe, it was each fictional, of course. Neither Godzilla nor Kong — oregon adjacent a fake, movie mentation of either — was really invading the capital.

Filming ran from the Angel of Independence monument to the Diana the Huntress sculpture and fountain, known successful Spanish arsenic La Diana Cazadora. The Palacio de Bellas Artes also featured successful immoderate shots.

Extras followed orders: run, don’t look back. Some near vehicles astatine unusual angles to heighten the chaos, and sirens sounded arsenic the cameras rolled. It looked similar a city-wide evacuation.

The accumulation squad thanked locals for their patience, and crews made definite everything was nether control. The metropolis had issued an authoritative announcement beforehand astir the thoroughfare closures and the filming.

The movie is being produced by Legendary Pictures and volition beryllium distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. Grant Sputore, an Australian successful his aboriginal 40s known for his 2019 sci-fi thriller “I Am Mother,” is directing.

The formed includes Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Stevens, Sam Neill, Matthew Modine and Delroy Lindo, though nary stars were connected tract successful CDMX.

This isn’t the archetypal clip the Monsterverse touched down successful the capital. The 2019 movie “Godzilla II: King of the Monsters” besides changeable successful Mexico City.

With reports from Milenio, Chilango.com and El Universal