Godzilla vs. Kong Trivia | 40 facts about the new MonsterVerse film

“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.

1. Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film
2. It is directed by Adam Wingard
3. A sequel to both Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Kong: Skull Island (2017)
4. It is the fourth film in Legendary’s MonsterVerse
5. It is also the 36th film in the Godzilla franchise
6. The 12th film in the King Kong franchise
7. The fourth Godzilla film to be completely produced by a Hollywood studio
8. 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
9. 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
10. The project was announced in October 2015
11. Then Legendary announced plans for a shared cinematic universe between Godzilla and King Kong
12. The film’s writers room was assembled in March 2017
13. Wingard was announced as the director in May 2017
14. Principal photography began in November 2018 in Hawaii, Australia and Hong Kong
15. It wrapped in April 2019
16. 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
17. In the United States it was released on March 31 in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously
18. The film received generally positive reviews from critics
19. With praise for the visual effects and action sequences, but criticism towards the human characters
20. It has grossed $145 million worldwide
21. Making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2021
22. As of April 1, 2021, Godzilla vs. Kong has grossed $16.3 million in the United States and Canada
23. And $129.2 million in other territories
24. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 76% of critics have given the film a positive review
25. With an average rating of 6.4/10
26. This is based on 281 reviews
27. 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”
28. According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 60 out of 100
29. Based on 53 critics
30. The film received “mixed or average reviews”
31. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A” on an A+ to F scale
32. This is the highest for the MonsterVerse
33. While PostTrak reported 86% of audience members gave it a positive score
34. With 74% saying they would definitely recommend it
35. Though Legendary Pictures hoped to continue making MonsterVerse films after Godzilla vs. Kong
36. 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
37. In February 2021, Wingard commented on the future of the MonsterVerse, “I know where we could go potentially with future films”
38. However, he noted that the MonsterVerse was created “to a certain degree” to lead towards Godzilla vs. Kong
39. He added that the MonsterVerse is at a “crossroads”
40. 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.”