See the combined forces of Kong and Godzilla like never before in the ultimate titan team-up, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Kongās journey to find his family leads to an undiscovered layer of Hollow Earth, and with it, the most dangerous threat to mankind yet.
Given the success of the previous film, the epic monster mash Godzilla vs. Kong, director, story writer and executive producer Adam Wingard decided to go another route for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. āI remember even as we were completing the last movie, that was the thing in the back of my mind. āWhere do you go from here?ā,ā he says. āThe charactersānow that theyāve fought together, theyāve been in movies togetherāitās pretty hard to imagine doing another movie without them. Once you put Godzilla and Kong together you canāt take them apart, but theyāre never gonna get along really all that well. They both have too big of egos, and so whatās fun about them is that even when they do team-up, thereās always gonna be this sort of uneasy truce to it all,ā he explains further, talking about what kind of relationship audiences will expect between the Titans.
As their relationship changes, audiences can look forward to Godzilla and Kong going through their own evolution as well. āIn Godzilla vs. Kong, it was really important to me to make sure that there was continuity between the other moviesāthat Godzilla felt like the Godzilla that we had established in the Monsterverse, and Kong also felt like the same character. But for me, I was looking forward to having my opportunity to update the character, to give him a new look, and I didnāt want it to just be something that was just a random thing,ā Wingard says, explaining his vision for the Titansā updated look. āI wanted it to be driven by the story, and so I knew even at the early development phases, that I wanted to give Godzilla a new look, but I wanted to make sure that it was also motivated by something going on in the movie and that we would actually see the evolution happen within the film.ā
The reason for the legendary team-up between the two Titans? A mysterious, powerful new villain: Skar King. āWhen you have a movie called Godzilla x Kong, you canāt just have another run-of-the-mill kind of situation for them to be in. You have to come up with something that is going to require a team to take it down,ā says Wingard about how Skar King is going to shake things up for the duo. āBecause of the humanity within Kongās character, we were able to come up with a villain like the Skar Kingāit opened the door where we could tell that same āevil side of humanityā story, but from the monster perspective, and that means creating an even bigger threat that the Skar King is in control of. In the way that humans have armies and weapons of mass destruction, the Skar Kingās got his version of that, and itās gonna take all the hero monsters in the world to band together to be able to stop him.ā
Finally, Wingard talks about what people can expect inĀ Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,Ā being inspired by the monster movies of old. ā[Because] ultimately, I wanted to make not just another Monsterverse film, but a thrill ride like youāve never seen before. I wanted it to be a mic drop moment for monster movies. Whatever kind of movies I make in the future, as far as monsters go, I want this to say everything, and I want to be able to walk away knowing that we did everythingā¦ and the kitchen sink!ā
About āGodzilla x Kong: The New Empireā
The epic battle continues! Legendary Picturesā cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of āGodzilla vs. Kongā with an all-new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existenceāand our own. āGodzilla x Kong: The New Empireā delves further into the histories of these Titans and their origins, as well as the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever.
Once again at the helm is director Adam Wingard. The screenplay is by Terry Rossio (āGodzilla vs. Kongā the āPirates of the Caribbeanā series) and Simon Barrett (āYouāre Nextā) and Jeremy Slater (āMoon Knightā), from a story by Rossio & Wingard & Barrett, based on the character āGodzillaā owned and created by TOHO Co., Ltd. The film is produced by Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Eric Mcleod, Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni and Brian Rogers. The executive producers are Wingard, Jen Conroy, Jay Ashenfelter, Yoshimitsu Banno, Kenji Okuhira.
The film stars Rebecca Hall (āGodzilla vs. Kong,ā The Night Houseā), Brian Tyree Henry (āGodzilla vs. Kong,ā āBullet Trainā), Dan Stevens (āGaslit,ā āLegion,ā āBeauty and the Beastā), Kaylee Hottle (āGodzilla vs. Kongā), Alex Ferns (āThe Batman,ā āWrath of Man,ā āChernobylā) and Fala Chen (āIrma Vep,ā āShang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Ringsā).
In cinemas March 30, āGodzilla x Kong: The New Empireā is distributed in the Philippines by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Discovery company.
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