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Godzilla vs. Kong is a 2021 American monster film directed by Adam Wingard.Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a sequel to Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and is the fourth film in the Monsterverse.
Throughout the MonsterVerse timeline, this Kong specimen is named Kong (コング, Kongu) onscreen and in the promotional materials of the films he starred in. In 2019, during the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Monarch refers to Kong as Titanus Kong, but the cryptozoological classification for his species in the MonsterVerse is dubbed as "Apus Giganticus".
Writer Max Borenstein stated that the Monsterverse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla.Borenstein credits Legendary Entertainment's founder and then CEO Thomas Tull as the one responsible for the Monsterverse, having acquired the rights to Godzilla and negotiated the complicated rights to King Kong.
King Kong vs. Godzilla had its roots in an earlier concept for a new King Kong feature developed by Willis O'Brien, animator of the original stop-motion Kong. Around 1960, [ 14 ] O'Brien came up with a proposed treatment, King Kong Meets Frankenstein , [ 15 ] where Kong would fight against a giant Frankenstein's monster in San Francisco . [ 16 ]
Kaylee Hottle (born 2007 or 2008) is a deaf American actress who stars in the 2021 film Godzilla vs. Kong and its 2024 sequel film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.For the latter, she was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor.
Godzilla (/ ɡ ɒ d ˈ z ɪ l ə / ɡod-ZIL-ə) [a] is a fictional monster, or kaiju, based on Toho Co., Ltd.'s character of the same name, and one of the protagonists in Legendary Pictures' Monsterverse franchise.
Toho theatrically released King Kong Escapes on July 22, 1967, in Japan but failed to match the box office success of King Kong vs. Godzilla. [38] Universal Pictures released an English dubbed version in the United States the following year; similar to what they had done with King Kong vs. Godzilla, Universal made a deal to retain the copyright ...
In September 2015, Legendary's Kong: Skull Island was moved from Universal to Warner Bros., which sparked media speculation that Godzilla and King Kong would appear in a film together. [212] [213] In October 2015, Legendary confirmed that they would unite Godzilla and King Kong in Godzilla vs. Kong. They planned to create a shared cinematic ...