“Godzilla vs. Kong” is the new film taking place in the MonsterVerse franchise and pits the two famous monsters against each other.
Let’s dive into some trivia and facts about the new film.
- Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film
- It is directed by Adam Wingard
- A sequel to both Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Kong: Skull Island (2017)
- It is the fourth film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse
- It is also the 36th film in the Godzilla franchise
- The 12th film in the King Kong franchise
- The fourth Godzilla film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio
- The film stars Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Julian Dennison, Lance Reddick, Kyle Chandler, and Demián Bichir
- In the film, Kong clashes with Godzilla as humans lure the ape into the Hollow Earth to retrieve an energy source to stop Godzilla’s mysterious rampages
- The project was announced in October 2015
- Then Legendary announced plans for a shared cinematic universe between Godzilla and King Kong
- The film’s writers room was assembled in March 2017
- Wingard was announced as the director in May 2017
- Principal photography began in November 2018 in Hawaii, Australia and Hong Kong
- It wrapped in April 2019
- After being delayed from a November 2020 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Godzilla vs. Kong was theatrically released internationally on March 24, 2021
- In the United States it was released on March 31 in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously
- The film received generally positive reviews from critics
- With praise for the visual effects and action sequences, but criticism towards the human characters
- It has grossed $145 million worldwide
- Making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2021
- As of April 1, 2021, Godzilla vs. Kong has grossed $16.3 million in the United States and Canada
- And $129.2 million in other territories
- On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of critics have given the film a positive review
- With an average rating of 6.4/10
- This is based on 281 reviews
- The website’s critics consensus reads: “Delivering squarely on its title, Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you’d expect from giant monsters slugging it out”
- According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 60 out of 100
- Based on 53 critics
- The film received “mixed or average reviews”
- Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A” on an A+ to F scale
- This is the highest for the MonsterVerse
- While PostTrak reported 86% of audience members gave it a positive score
- With 74% saying they would definitely recommend it
- Though Legendary Pictures hoped to continue making MonsterVerse films after Godzilla vs. Kong
- Their contract with Toho was originally planned to expire in 2020 before the COVID-19 pandemic began and no additional films were immediately lined up
- In February 2021, Wingard commented on the future of the MonsterVerse, “I know where we could go potentially with future films”
- However, he noted that the MonsterVerse was created “to a certain degree” to lead towards Godzilla vs. Kong
- He added that the MonsterVerse is at a “crossroads”
- Stating, “It’s really at the point where audiences have to kind of step forward and vote for more of these things. If this movie is a success obviously they will continue forward.”
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