For two years – and two San Diego Comic-Cons – the director has been teasing his reboot of Godzilla to much fanboy/fangirl glee. But it was starting to feel like the monster of all monsters would never actually come.

 

But now, there’s an official trailer (above). Godzilla is finally on the way (it hits theaters May 16 of next year). Unfortunately, there’s not much of the magnificent beast to see in this first teaser – just a few seconds of him letting out a terrifying roar – but the mood an vision of this first trailer is pretty chilling. The trailer starts with a white-knucklingly long air-drop of soldiers (led David Strathairn) onto Godzilla’s attack in what looks like San Francisco (kaiju must love that town, that’s where they went first in Pacific Rim). The clip then cuts back and forth between shots of Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston hurriedly running somewhere and everyone else just generally looking freaked out. It’s a moody, freaky piece – and even though it’s light on monster action at least it’s got some monster action, so we’ll take it.