Kong trailer, despite not having lived that long in comparison to other Titans in the MonsterVerse. The giant ape was depicted as an adolescent in Kong: Skull Island , a movie set in the early s.
Because his parents and the rest of his species were apparently wiped out by the Skullcrawlers , the young ape was left as the last of his kind and the King of Skull Island.
In the film, the arrival of humans led to the reemergence of more Skullcrawlers, which Kong had to fight hard to repel. Several decades after crossing paths with Monarch for the first time and protecting the island from danger, Kong is back for another MonsterVerse battle, this time with Godzilla. In just 50 years, the foot-tall ape has grown to Godzilla-size. Fans think King Kong looks older in the trailer for upcoming Godzilla vs. How old are Godzilla and Kong in ? In Godzilla, the reboot of the franchise, the colossal apex predator awakens from a 60 year slumber, causing a tsunami in Honolulu.
However, between then and the movie, he grows over 10 metres. His weight, too, changes between the films. In , he apparently weighed 90, tons the Statue of Liberty, including the base, weighs under 25, tons. Kong: King Kong has protective instincts, but admittedly they're not as wide-ranging as Godzilla. For most of his life, the ape has been limited to one island in the South Pacific, protecting both it and its human inhabitants from the Skullcrawlers.
Now that Kong has been relocated to the Hollow Earth world, his responsibilities have grown tenfold. There's so much more for him to oversee now, which means he may be facing greater challenges than just the Skullcrawlers. Based on what's been established about Mothra, it appears she shares a much more meaningful connection to the Earth's humans than Godzilla does. Apparently, she is connected with an ancient cult responsible for waking her up with music the MonsterVerse's take on the Twin Fairies.
Mothra, who was worshiped as a guardian deity by those people, dedicated her entire existence to ensure the planet's safety. She'll be sure to continue along this path when she gets reborn again. Behemoth: one of the four monsters who joined Rodan in bowing down to Godzilla at the end of King of the Monsters. As mentioned in the movie's credits, Behemoth eventually settled in the Amazon rainforest, where the radiation from his body replenished the region and brought beauty back to the area.
The Godzilla vs. Kong novelization expanded on this by saying that the humans there came to appreciate its presence. That's because Behemoth, unlike some Titans, is a peaceful creature who has proven to have a positive impact on the environment. This fact has seemingly been recognized by Godzilla, who came to his aid when he was attacked by Amhuluk in the Godzilla vs. Kong graphic novel prequel, Dominion. The trailer features a scene resembling one from the Godzilla movie, with Godzilla making a beeline towards a battleship.
Unlike in the movie, where Godzilla dove under it at the last moment, the trailer shows him ripping it to shreds with his dorsal plates. This will be the second film featuring Godzilla to have Lance Reddick, though he only appears in one scene for less than a minute.
Reddick previously appeared in Godzilla , which isn't connected to this one. There's also a couple of references to Godzilla vs. Not only is this MechaGodzilla literally King Ghidorah, he also does exactly that as he's charging at Godzilla.
MechaGodzilla also emerges from a black mountain tall enough to be above the clouds, which was the omen of his arrival in the prophecy predicting him.
The location of a Hollow Earth ecosystem populated by giant prehistoric monsters was never a new concept for Godzilla. The unmade film, Bride of Godzilla, used this exact idea. Kong eating fish is reference to the critically panned Tristar Godzilla film, as Zilla's appetite is sated by "a lot of fish.
When they first go into Hollow Earth and cross the gravity barrier, it's an easter egg to A Space Odyssey. And prior to Mechagodzilla bursting out of the arena, there's an Easter egg shot with the sun rising over the Apex headquarters with the moon above it.
That's very reminiscent of the monolith shot from In King Kong vs. Godzilla , Godzilla is portrayed as a big bully, clapping gleefully when he gets to put the hurt on Kong.
Here, Godzilla instigates both fights against Kong, simply because he can't abide the presence of a potential rival and must bring Kong to heel or kill him. The initial fight in the Tasman Sea is Godzilla at the most villainous he's ever been portrayed in the Legendary Series, utterly brutal and merciless as he drags Kong underwater and tries to drown him.
For his part, it seems Kong would be perfectly content for Godzilla to just leave him alone. In both cases, a kaiju is taken from its tropical island and attacked by Godzilla midway through its voyage, and reluctantly set loose by the humans and then fights Godzilla in a rather one-sided battle where at one point they leap off a boat to avoid being hit by his atomic breath.
At one point, Mechagodzilla's proton scream briefly sparks with blue and yellow energy. This results in a very similar aesthetic to the space beams of the first Mechagodzilla. In the opening title sequence, when Godzilla and Kong's stats are being compared, the only Titans defeated by Kong that gets a 3D-image profile highlighted to the audience are the Skullcrawlers and mire squid whereas both Femuto and Ghidorah who were defeated by Godzilla respectively get their 3D profiles highlighted.
Two of those Big Bads make a surprise return in the film: the Skullcrawlers when Team Godzilla unexpectedly happen across Skullcrawler eggs in Apex Cybernetics' possession and later encounter a Ramarak-sized adult, and Ghidorah when whatever's left of its mind in its skull awakens and takes over MechaGodzilla's programming, essentially making Ghidorah the main threat again.
It also points out that Godzilla has had more experience defeating other Titans in the previous films, and one of them was a rival Alpha Titan whereas Kong has never fought another Alpha before now; foreshadowing that Godzilla has more extensive combat experience and that he's the ultimate winner of the title conflict once he gets serious.
In August , Adam Wingard spoke about his approach for the monsters, stating: "I really want you to take those characters seriously.
It's a massive monster brawl movie. There's lots of monsters going crazy on each other, but at the end of the day I want there to be an emotional drive to it. I want you to be emotionally invested in them. I think that's what's going to make it really cool. Unused concept art showed the Warbat with a shocking new ability that was not seen in the film. The art was posted on Kaiju News Outlet's Twitter account and showcases the Titan with an electric tail.
Artist Matt Millard posted some of his early designs for the creature on Twitter in mid-April. That illustration also appears to feature a Warbat with an electric tail. Adam Wingard learned just how popular Millie Bobby Brown was when she arrived for her first day of filming the crowd scene alongside Kyle Chandler and two hundred extras grew quiet as they watched in awe. Adam Wingard credits his history of delivering movies on time and on budget for his being hired to direct this film. Adam Wingard took three months of sign language lessons but was incapable of grasping it.
He ended up using an interpreter alongside Kaylee Hottle so as to avoid embarrassing himself. The original plan was to have Kong kill Mecha-Godzilla by clamping his mouth shut so his nuclear breath cooks his own head.
In the novelization, A prologue scene shows how and when Kong saved Jia's life during Skull Island's destruction. Costume designer Ann Foley revealed that Jia's necklace is made of Skullcrawlers teeth that she had gathered on the island. Skullcrawlers giant two-legged reptiles had killed her family and that's why she's an orphan. To her that necklace was a talisman that gave her this protection from the dangers of her past and empowered her.
Costume Designer Ann Foley revealed her experience with working with Millie Bobby Brown, "Our first fitting was like a whirlwind, but she was fun. She commented that she felt like Angelina Jolie and "Tomb Raider. Godzilla only backs down for good when Kong drops his battle axe in other words he buries the hatchet ending a few to their species centuries long feud.
Hollow Earth radiant energy activating and lighting up symbols is a reference to Atlantis the Lost Empire Instead it announced plans to release the film on HBO Max and theaters simultaneously. Like it did with Wonder woman allegedly Legendary was furious about this initial decision but the details were worked out behind the scenes and everyone seemed to be on the same page. Peter Jackson special effects company Weta Digital that co-founded and does the effects work for most of his films including King Kong was also behind the VFX for this movie.
Nathan talks about how Kong's ancestors reached Skull Island through the tunnels that connected to the Hollow Earth, in Kong: Skull Island the bones of Kongs Parents are shown that they were killed by the skull crawlers. The temple in the hollow earth was likely built by the ancestors of the Iwi.
Theres also giant statues of Kong inside the hollow earth temple, which suggested that they live their thousands of years ago. In Godzilla: King of the Monsters we get a glimpse of one of these civilizations that predate the Egyptians and Romans, another clue that humans lived in harmony with both Godzilla and Kong's species in the past.
Plot details have started to come out regarding the first version, elements of which are preserved in the novelization. Even him going out of his way to attack Kong at sea was engineered by Maia and 'playing dead' also caused it to shut off.
The film's ending, in which we see Kong thriving happily in Hollow Earth, was originally intended to be The Stinger, but Wingard later decided to play the scene before the credits in order to give the film a stronger conclusion.
He also notes that including a post-credits scene, which usually serves to tease future installments, would've been too risky due to the questionable future of the MonsterVerse. Adam Wingard stated: "I think the MonsterVerse is at a crossroads where audiences need to vote if they want to see another one of these films before they continue. It makes sense that we don't have a post-credits scene.
The human mind. Artificial intelligence. Its one of the best Godzilla films ever made. The pinkish purple beams were a big inspiration on my approach to Godzilla's atomic breath in my film. The Hollow Earth sequence quietly revealed the death of one of Godzilla's ancestors.
It's known from the movie that he and others like him were involved in a Titan War with Kong's kind thousands of years ago. The two sharing some sort of ancient rivalry was teased by cave paintings in Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Not much is known about the history of Godzilla's species, but it has become clear that just like Kong, Godzilla is the last of his kind. At least one of his ancestors, and possibly more, was killed by some of his oldest enemies, the MUTOs.
A skeleton of one of his ancestors, named in the credits as "Adam," was shown at the beginning of the film. All that's left of his species at this point in the MonsterVerse is Godzilla himself, who has been preserving the balance of nature alone for several millennia.
Based on the backstory given to Godzilla and Kong in the MonsterVerse, it's implied that some members of his species died at the hands of Kong. How one, in particular, lost their life was revealed in the scene where Kong obtained his axe: the ape was seen pulling it out of a Titan skull. The identity of this skeleton has been debated by fans, with some thinking that it belongs to a Skullcrawler or some other kind of giant monster.
Many feel that it can't be Godzilla because of the shape of the skull, but given that it does look a bit like the skeleton from the movie, the connection doesn't appear to be impossible.
Furthermore, the official Godzilla vs. Kong novelization proves the Godzilla theory to be correct by confirming the resemblance. In the book, Rebecca Hall's Ilene Andrews identified it based on images she had seen from the Godzilla skeleton found in the Philippines. As for what happened to it, it would seem that an ancient Kong killed it by plunging the axe into its skull. What's interesting about that is that the skull is much bigger than Godzilla's, indicating that Godzilla either isn't at his maximum height yet or some of his ancestors were somehow bigger than him.
If this ancient Godzilla was even larger than the MonsterVerse's version, it's possible that it took multiple Kongs to bring it down. Or, just one Kong prevailed by landing a fatal blow to the head, something that the MonsterVerse's Kong wasn't able to do in the movie perhaps indicating the Kongs of ancient times were also bigger.
It's hard to say how many of Godzilla's species died during the war, or how many even participated. Regardless, there's a good chance that the dead one found in the Hollow Earth temple wasn't the only casualty its side suffered.
After all, the axe used to kill it is unlikely to have made been from a living Godzilla. It's possible that Godzilla's kind was decimated by the war, especially if Kong had them outnumbered. If so, that surely would have fueled his hatred for the giant ape.
The film follows the manga adaptation even more closely than this, where, just like here, the Ghidorah component of MechaGodzilla overrides its programming and brutally savages Godzilla, and Godzilla is only saved by the assistance of another kaiju Fire Rodan there, Kong here. Millie Bobby Brown described the film as a coming of age story for her character, noting that the character has "grown up" and become more "independent" since the events of the previous film, stating, "Her storyline has definitely evolved greatly in the way she deals with things, her attitude towards life, how much more stronger of a person".
Producer Alex Garcia described Madison as the "advocate for Godzilla in this film" who tries to "vindicate" Godzilla and his reasons. During his second fight against Godzilla, Kong attempts to kill the King of the Monsters by breaking his jaw, much like how previous incarnations of Kong killed the Meat-Eater, Gorosaurus, the giant snake, and the Vastatosaurus rex, but is less-successful due to Godzilla's atomic breath making it extremely difficult for him to keep his hands near Godzilla's mouth for an extended period of time.
MechaGodzilla, on the other hand did this to Anguirus in his debut film and is far more successful in employing it against Godzilla. Had Kong not stepped in when he did, the mech would have combined it with his Breath Weapon and obliterated the King of Monsters.
Julian Dennison described his character as a "nerd" and Madison as his "only friend". Dennison called Josh the "realist in the duo", stating, "he kind of brings it, 'Oh, we shouldn't do that because we'll die. And they're a very good mix of just craziness". Ironically, despite her devotion to her father and their company's goals, Maia is never actually is seen interacting with him at any point in the film. Producer Alex Garcia said the character of Walter Simmons "has risen to a place in the seats of power, and is wanting to help to stem and stop the madness and the destruction.
Garcia stated that Walter isn't necessarily a villain or a Machiavellian character but is "a very complex character who believes he's doing the right thing. And he may be, but that's where the mystery at the core of the film comes into play. Considering his intelligence, he likely knew the purpose of the HEAVs as transport units and wanted to make sure Jia wasn't in it before he destroyed it. Mechagodzilla's second live-action appearance since Ready Player One , where it was shown as a video game avatar.
Funnily enough, the song's title sums up the rest of their story; they break into Apex Cybernetics' facility in Florida and go on a whistleblowing journey.
The entire first fight between Godzilla and Kong is a whole scene shout out to "Neon Genesis Evangelion", which did the same exact scene 26 years earlier. And later on, when Ren questions how the injection of the Hollow Earth energy into "the mecha" might negatively affect it, Simmons just tells him to "get in the goddamn chair".
This isn't the first time a young girl 'spoke' for a monster, as the Godzilla series is full of young women who serve as the voice for the monsters; usually though it is psychic powers, not sign langauge. Although Kong and Godzilla are similar in the fact that they're giant, destructive beasts that nonetheless possess a modicum of intelligence and both act as counterbalances to far worse threats, they are still quite different. Whilst Godzilla, although not actively destructive, doesn't really care about the well-being of humans, Kong is explicitly stated to be the defender of Skull Island's inhabitants and of having an instinct to protect human life.
Conversely, whilst Godzilla never intentionally kills any humans, Kong is very vicious with his destruction of the military envoy though it was justified. Although both Godzilla and Kong are described as being the last of their respective kind, Godzilla is a millions-of-years-old sea-beast with the personality of a Grumpy Old Man to match, meanwhile Kong is a teenager by his species' standards and has presumably been active ever since he was born. Finally, Godzilla is a reptile and Kong is a mammal.
Godzilla has 11 minutes of screentime, Kong has 26 minutes of screentime, Mechagodzilla has 5 minute's of screentime, Warbats have 1 minute, Hellhawks have 50 second's, Hollow Earth lizard has 3 seconds, Hollow Earth arachnid's have 12 second's, leafwings have 6 second's, King Ghidorah's skull has 1 min. Kong relocating his dislocated shoulder is a reference to Lethal Weapon 2 and it's two sequels where Riggs can dislocate and relocate his shoulder at will.
MechaGodzilla's rampaging sentience is actually a reference to the third generation of MechaGodzilla, nicknamed Kiryu. Unlike previous generations, which were purely mechanical, Kiryu is constructed out of metal plates, weapons, and cables, as well as the original Godzilla's skeleton.
And, for some reason, cybernetic necromancy lets the spirit of the original Godzilla temporarily control Kiryu and go on a rampage fueled by its hi-tech weapons. That's basically what happens in this film, but the movie implies that this time King Ghidorah is in the driver's seat.
The way the Hellhawks fly and attack are somewhat similar to the Terapusmordax in the King Kong film. Mechagodzilla's design being built around the organic components of deceased monsters was previously used in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla. Mechagodzilla's tail drill is both a reference to the Showa Mechagodzilla's unisot tail blade and Kiryu's drill hand from Godzilla: Tokyo S.
The hollow earth lizard can also be a reference to Anguirus, a godzilla classic kaiju. It's roars follow a screeching sound which are similar to Anguirus' roar. It may also be possible that the lizard isn't fully grown. Mechagodzilla's "proton scream" is generated by a particle accelerator which is only shown for a few shots. Director Adam Wingard revealed why the Serizawa tie was dropped from the film. Felt interesting leaving it mysterious.
I hear the novelization expands on that. I need to check it out," Wingard answered before adding a bit more about the novelizations. Should be cool to see that take, also I hope it expands on the monster's inner thoughts. Adam Wingard recorded this commentary in early February, , so he's discussing it without knowing how the film would be received. Kong's casual morning wasn't the original opening and was instead something they thought up deep into production.
It took them a while to feel confident enough that the monsters are characters in their own right. Adam Wingard was resistant at first to the big orchestral score as he instead favored a more synth-oriented score, but he relented after meeting Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL and hearing what he had in mind. Adam Wingard comments on Kong's look saying he's older, scruffier, and worn down.
Legendary gave Adam Wingard wiggle room to play around with Godzilla's look, but he decided to keep it in line with Godzilla: King of Monsters seeing as this is a direct sequel. At 10 mins. The film's opening thirty minutes went through multiple iterations before ending here. The footage of Godzilla's attack on Pensacola was originally part of an assault on a Monarch base. At 12 mins. The blurry footage on a TV screen is actually an unfinished visual fx shot from an early opening sequence.
One of the vfx guys used his cell phone to shakily film it off a monitor. The first meeting between Nathan Lind and Walter Simmons was part of the reshoots, and they were stuck with a bearded Skarsgard as he was working on The Stand and couldn't shave it.
Elvis Presley's 'Loving Arms' was added because "I'm the biggest Elvis fan of all time," stated Adam Wingard, adding that he's actually been working on an Elvis movie. The aircraft carrier scenes were filmed on an airport tarmac where they also shot the boat scenes from Kong: Skull Island. They tweaked the lighting in several scenes to ensure the monsters were plenty visible, most notably the rainy sequence on the carrier.
Pre-production originally had a lot more dark and rainy stuff planned as it always looks cool, but they trimmed it back to just this one sequence. At 35 mins. Adam Wingard has long been on the fence about the shot of Kong smiling because he worried "is this cheap? At 36 mins. The shot of Lind looking at the photo of his brother was originally him looking at a rubber band on his finger. A scene in the original opening showed him proposing to his fiance and offering a rubber band as he didn't have a ring.
Adam Wingard recalls telling Alexander Skarsgard during reshoots "your character is still the same except for all the things why your character is the way he is. At 39 mins. The shot of Godzilla's tail causing havoc is among Wingard's favorites, "that kind of Cthulhu-looking tail shot.
Kong puking up some water originally featured some fish flopping about, but they stripped them out as it's meant to be a dramatic beat. Adam Wingard showed Michael Dougherty some early Antarctica art and was worried that he upset the King of the Monsters director as Dougherty believes that each installment should go someplace new with the monsters, but "at the end of the day I can't imagine the opening to Hollow Earth being anywhere but Antarctica.
One of Adam Wingard's early thoughts after taking the gig was "I just hope we don't have a silly scene where Kong is being lifted by balloons like in the original movie. Kong's big ax was an idea of Adam Wingard's that started as just a visual concept meant to look cool, but it grew to become a major thread in the narrative. Mecha-Godzilla was originally going to remain piloted, but they changed that in the exploration of the dangers of AI by having him become sentient.
Godzilla is metres long and weighs over 90, tonnes. Kong stands metres tall and weighs over 50, tonnes. According to Warner Brothers, in Kong was feet tall. They provided his height for this height chart to Conan's Studio for an unaired Skit, and it should be noted Conan's team made an error and counted Godzilla's dorsal fins towards his height of feet, making him seem shorter than he actually is.
Shared onto Twitter by Krichevsky, the artwork shows Mechagodzilla with a more militaristic color scheme as opposed to its robotic look from the movie. Krichevsky gave an explanation as to why Mechagodzilla looks this way in a preceding tweet he stated "Desert Storm MechaG. Material option I played with while showing them other looks, this was a bit of a wild card idea, since I didn't know anything about the story, I wondered if he was being made by the military.
Concept artists Jared Krichevsky, who did creature designs for the film, posted on Instagram about the process of creating the look of the giant mechanical Mechagodzilla. He stated: "Being legacyeffects, theres lots of Ts about and so I studied what made them terrifying. So that became my main source of inspiration. The skeletal structure, the eerie but uncanny similarity of man with the cold steel of machine.
Mechagodzilla had to look different than any other previous versions So I knew RPO was off the table. He couldn't look like an exact machine version of Godzilla, which was my first attempt. According to Krichevsky, he made a conscious effort to make this version of the metallic behemoth the opposite of Godzilla, design-wise, while still looking like a credible threat to the combined might of King Kong and Godzilla.
I went to opposites, Godzilla has a thick body, so I went with a lean, fish-ike body and skeletal tail, Godzilla has stubby arms, so I gave him extra reach. The claw hands were something I pitched in the room, but I knew they needed to see it to understand it.
One note was that the hands needed to be unique. I decided the claws could have a range of flexibility and possibilities, So I based this off of something called mirror-hand syndrome. I wanted this Mecha to be fast and maneuverable has built like a tank. There was a rumor since debunked that there were two endings for the original King Kong vs.
Godzilla: a Japanese version where Godzilla won, and the American version where Kong won. There were Japanese and American cuts of the film with substantial differences, but the ending is the same in both.
Now with the new movie the inverse is true; Kong won in the original Japanese film, and Godzilla won in the American version. Given that Mechagodzilla is controlled by Ghidorah's brain, and specifically the brain of his left head, Kong's coup de grace on Mecha G is the third time Kevin suffers a brutal decapitation. It seems Mike Dougherty was telling the truth when he said decapitation happens to Kevin all the time.
The jokes between the disparity of Godzilla and Kong's abilities take a dark turn when Godzilla, once he actually plays serious, completely demolishes Kong, nearly killing him in an absolutely savage display due to Godzilla being on a whole different level of power scale, leaving Godzilla as the clear uncontested winner between the two.
Kong ONLY makes it out due to the MechaGodzilla proving to be the bigger threat and the willingness to walk away from the fight and make amends rather than keep going at it. In the film, there's absolutely no mention of Alan Jonah's fate nor how the skull of Ghidorah's surviving head that Jonah obtained has wound up in the possession of Apex Cybernetics.
The novelization features a prologue scene where a man who's all but stated to be Jonah meets with Walter Simmons after contacting him and sells him two of Ghidorah's skulls, although Jonah's reasons for doing so when Apex's agenda is diametrically opposed to his remain uncertain. T She stated "This costume was one of the first things I started working on with director Adam Wingard. Adam and I were committed to exploring a new idea that did not mimic the superhero costumes and space suits that have been seen before in other films.
The Monarch team is going into the unknown environment of Hollow Earth and so we wanted to imagine a suit that would offer them both protection from the potentially hostile environment and something that audiences might not expect. Adam and I also wanted to ensure that the fabric for the Monarch team suits had dynamic movement and a singular reflection of light.
By using 3D fabric printing I experimented with different techniques and inks until I landed on a red ink that was printed onto a fabric with a black base, and then layered a copper pattern on top of that.
The result is that when the suit moves, it changes color, depending on how the light hits it. It was an incredibly rewarding creative process that resulted in a fabric that is specific to the costume and not seen in any other film. To complete the Monarch team costumes I added a climbing harness over the suit that we modified for the film and a riggers belt with a variety of tools that might be needed in Hollow Earth.
We get to see the important progression Maddie has made starting as a remarkable young girl in Godzilla: King of the Monsters and evolving into an empowered young woman in Godzilla vs. There is a strength that I hoped to communicate through her clothing. I wanted to show that idea, specifically with Maddie's jacket.
I had this idea that it came out of her mother's closet and that Maddie is continuing her mother's mission to save the Titans. It's a really wonderful character piece for her and I wanted it to be her mission outfit. Every single one of the characters is on a mission in this film -- Maddie is on a mission to save Godzilla and Jia is on a mission to save Kong. And then, of course, much of the rest of the cast is in their actual mission suits as they go down into Hollow Earth.
Costume designer Ann Foley spoke about how Alexander Skarsgard was "so much fun and we had such a great time because he brought some really fun ideas to the table. We started conceptualizing the character and Alex wanted to do something a little different; he wanted to have a little bit more fun.
He came up with the idea of having his character be this fan of '80s movies so we paid homage to "Lethal Weapon" and "Back to the Future. I bought the base and we modified it. We aged it down because I wanted it to feel like he had had it since the '80s.
Even with his sneakers, Adidas was kind enough to work with us on those high-top sneakers and track them down. For Jia's outfit, costume designer Ann Foley revealed "She is one of the most wonderful, interesting and incredible characters in the film. I wanted her costume to represent and celebrate her Iwi heritage. The last time we saw that was in the '70s in "Kong: Skull Island.
I gave her an Iwi wrap and it's a direct link to her heritage, with the Iwi writing. What's so great about the wrap is that it serves so many purposes. It can disguise her, protect her from the elements and she can use it as a blanket.
Adam Wingard credits the previous filmmakers in the monsterverse for making his life easier on the project. Including giving him a way to explain Kong's sudden growth spurt. Godzilla is based off the wrestler The Undertaker as stated by Adam Wingard. Although Kong is not based off a wrestler there is a wrestler with his namesake called King Kong Bundy.
Adam Wingard had previously been considered by Peter Jackson to direct a sequel to his version of King Kong that went unproduced.
Wingard was offered the project by Mary Parent, stating, "I jumped at it immediately. Doing both characters in one film, and being the filmmaker who gets to answer the age-old question of 'Who would win? Wingard prepared by watching every Godzilla and King Kong film. Before receiving a script, Wingard had already pictured the final battle taking place in a "synthwave-style futuristic city backdrop.
How can we get these two monsters fighting on a synthwave album cover? Second Alexander Skarsgard film with a gorilla, first time was when he played the title character in The Legend of Tarzan who was raised by gorillas. None of the characters in Kong: Skull Island appear in or are even mentioned in this movie. Nathan Lind is set up as the main protagonist for Kong's storyline, but he doesn't do that much.
If anything, the protagonist is Kong himself, who gets a good bit of Character Development and focus. Adam Wingard wanted James Rolfe to appear in the film as an extra, knowing that he is big fan of the Godzilla franchise. Wingard stated that he did not follow up on this possibility with Rolfe, as, due to the uncertainty of extras appearing in the final cut, he did not think it would be worth Rolfe's time. Rolfe himself has stated that the timing of the birth of his second daughter meant he could not have participated in filming.
When asked on Instagram about the Hollow Earth lizards actual name, Wingard commented he thought the consensus of the Hollow Earth monster was that he would be called "Titanus Doug". It's become a popular joke that's picked up a lot of steam online, and so far, "Doug" is continuing to stick.
Adding fuel was a joke by Wingard after being asked about what monster deserves his own MonsterVerse movie next. His choice was Doug.
Doug is obviously too small to be a real Titan like Godzilla or Kong, but that doesn't mean he can't be used later in some capacity. Kong, he will definitely bring back Doug, as the monster "has a lot more to give" [via Reddit].
With rumors about Son of Kong being in development with Wingard attached as director, that chance might be right around the corner. Given that Son of Kong would presumably be set in the Hollow Earth with the focus being on much smaller monsters, an appearance or cameo from Doug feels like a no-brainer. Many were skeptical if the movie would be a financial success, given the still-ongoing COVID Pandemic, the mediocre critical reception of its predecessor, the less-than-spectacular box office grosses of Tenet and its simultaneous release on HBO Max.
The movie has not only become the highest-grossing film since the pandemic started, but a major boon to HBO Max subscriptions as well.
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