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Wingard's effort expands Godzilla's usual stomping grounds from overcast, constant-night cities overlooking oceans to the more mystical terrain of the Hidden World. (When you think about it, the victor isn't at all surprising.) The plot merely connects rounds 1, 2 and 3 of Godzilla and Kong's head-to-head, and you might be pleased to note that director Adam Wingard gives you a definitive winner. Kong is a little more colorful than its predecessors.Įverything plays out exactly as already predicted in the trailer's YouTube comments. His subject? Evil Tech Company Apex Cybernetics, linked with stirring the of-late peaceful Godzilla into a blue-eyed frenzy. That includes Millie Bobby Brown, who played daughter-of-scientists Maddison Russell in the previous flick Julian Dennison of Deadpool and Hunt for the Wilderpeople fame and indisputable comedic standout Brian Tyree Henry as a podcast-running whistleblower. Tagging along is deaf orphan Jia, played by a ridiculously adorable Kaylee Hottle, who can communicate with the giant gorilla.īogging down events is Team Godzilla. The fabled Hidden World is the answer, bringing scientists played by Alexander Skarsgard and Rebecca Hall together to escort Kong to the not-so-mythical realm's entrance. Wisely shedding a few characters from 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the latest monster bash-up focuses on a seemingly straightforward mission: Find Kong a new home, because there can't be two apex titans living on Earth's surface. Like all current Warner Bros blockbusters, the film was available for a 1-month release on streaming service HBO Max, and will return to the HBO streaming service for no extra fee at some point in the future.
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Kong offers a crowd-pleasing entry that definitely brings home the spectacle. Deliberately less gritty than previous entries in the franchise known as the MonsterVerse, which began with 2014's Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Kong is now available to rent or buy on digital platforms, with the 4K and Blu-ray disc home release following on June 15. Dazzling action, colorful Tron-like neon lights, a pulsating electronic score and at least one standout performance from a human character set this surprise hit sequel above earlier films in the monster-mashing series. Maybe Legendary and Toho can hammer out the terms of a new deal, or maybe, by then, Toho will have blown everyone's minds with its own shared Kaiju-verse.Keen to see legendary monsters Godzilla and King Kong fight it out until at least one major city lies in ruins? You're in luck. Godzilla already has one solo film more than Kong does in the MonsterVerse, so if nothing else, "Son of Kong" would allow Kong to catch up and be on even footing with Godzilla again, if and when they do reunite for Legendary.
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Screenwriter Max Borenstein has been involved with the story and/or script of every MonsterVerse movie to date, and he's said that he would like to see a "Godzilla vs.
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This would seem to position it as more of a Kong-centric project like "Kong: Skull Island." That film already set a precedent for a MonsterVerse movie by confining itself mostly to one location, so with Kong down in the Hollow Earth now, it might make sense for Legendary to use this proposed sequel to explore that terrain and more of Kong's family tree along with other new monsters. "Son of Kong" is the direction that Legendary is said to be going with its "Godzilla vs.
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Kong," they've retired to their separate corners of the tentpole boxing ring, but is there a chance we'll see them tearing up cities again in a rematch? The answer to that is somewhat complicated, and that's why we're here. Then, after a release date shuffle pushed their crossover back a year, Godzilla and Kong finally got a chance to meet and duke it out onscreen, leveling much of Hong Kong in the process. "Kong: Skull Island" introduced King Kong into the MonsterVerse in 2017, while "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" introduced such classic kaiju as King Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan in 2019. It also served as the culmination of the four-film Monsterverse that Legendary Entertainment had been building since it released its first "Godzilla" film, directed by Gareth Evans, back in 2014. The long-delayed blockbuster reaped the benefits of two marquee monsters and pent-up demand for moviegoing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kong" stomped its way into theaters in March 2021, it scored the best box office haul for a movie on opening weekend since "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" in December 2019.
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