‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Toys Teasing Monsters Seen in the Film
By George Robbins
There were many films that people have been looking forward to this year that no one will really have a chance to see due to the pandemic. Most movie theaters are still shut down and are only going to start seeing reopenings within the next month or so. This doesn’t help people because it means that they will not get to see the movies that they were hoping for. Beyond just theaters being closed, there is also the issue of studios pushing back the release dates of their films because it would be too much of a risk to release them any time soon. Thus many movies from the beginning half of the year that couldn’t be shown due to the pandemic will now be releasing some time later in the year and even this may not end up happening.
Unfortunately, it seems as though the pandemic issue will be ongoing for quite some time and in the United States it has become the worst. With a second wave of the virus hitting, states such as California have had to start shutting things down again. This is a risk that many movie studios are not willing to take and it means that even if theaters reopen and studios want to show their films, what happened at the start of the pandemic could happen again. This means that they would rather wait things out and see if anything gets better before they try and put their movies out to the public. Hence, many studios that had films releasing later this year have pushed their film releases into next year.
One of the bigger releases that was meant to come out later this year was ‘Godzilla vs. Kong.’ The upcoming giant monster, or kaiju, film was supposed to feature a massive fight between the titular monsters and possibly give us a new “King of the Monsters.” Originally the film was supposed to release in November of this year, but after the second wave of the coronavirus hit, its release date was pushed to May of 2021. This entry in Legendary’s MonsterVerse was a film that many people were looking forward to seeing. Even though people will have to wait longer to see the movie, there is still plenty going on with the film to warrant attention. People will be the most excited when the trailer for the film drops, so it was a good thing they held off on the trailer’s release.
Even if the studio held off on giving more details about the movie until we reach a date that is closer to the movie’s actual release, information still ended up being potentially leaked. The toy lines for movies often go hand-in-hand with the movies by releasing figures of characters from the films. Most of the time, the figures released represent characters that could play a potentially large role in the film and this is what people are currently latching onto. The newest figures to be put up are the returning Skullcrawlers from the ‘Kong: Skull Island‘ movie and a new monster that is going by the name of Warbat. Alongside the reveals by the toy lines of a new Titan named Nozuki and the return of a classic from the Toho series, Mechagodzilla, these new reveals show us that there is a lot in store for audiences when the film premieres next year.