There’s a Good Chance Godzilla Will Have Multiple Enemies in His Next Outing
By George Robbins
There are countless monster movie icons that exist in the world, but the giant monsters are the ones that have made the biggest resurgence over the last few years. Of those giant monsters, the ones that are known by most are Godzilla and King Kong due to Legendary’s MonsterVerse that they’ve concocted. The idea was to create a universe where the giant monsters from Toho’s original monster movies could find their way to the big screen in a more modern age. There were many types of shared universes that companies have tried creating over the past decade or so with many just not really going anywhere. Out of those universes came the MonsterVerse crafted by Legendary Pictures, and although they only have three films released as of now, it is very successful.
Although there are only a few movies to have released thus far, there have actually been a large number of monsters that have been introduced to the MonsterVerse. With the most recent ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ movie they introduced a very large number of monsters to the universe. For those who paid attention during the credits, there have also been a number of monsters that weren’t seen on screen that exist in that universe that were revealed. In the last film, it has become a fact that Gozilla has solidified his place among all of the monsters in the world as the alpha, but according to source material outside of the movie, Kong doesn’t listen and does whatever he wants. This creates the question as to whether Godzilla will remain the king when it comes time for the two of them to fight one another.
There have been a number of announcements over the last month or so in regards to the upcoming ‘Godzilla vs Kong’ such as the fact that the film has secured its PG-13 rating. On the not so bright side side of news in regards to the film, the studio decided that they were going to delay the film due to the rise in Covid-19 cases as of late. Instead of premiering the movie in November as intended, they changed the new release date to May of 2021. This isn’t all that surprising considering everything else that is happening, but it does mean that we will have to wait a while longer before we can watch the titanic show-down. The question is why the two titans would end up coming up against one another and if they are really the only two monsters in the film.
Although the title of the movie suggests that it is a fight for dominance between the titular monsters, there is a good chance we will be seeing other monsters involved somehow. It has already been spoiled by the toy lines that at least two other kaiju will appear in the movie alongside the titular titans. One of those monsters is another Toho original, Mechagodzilla, and a wholly original monster by the name of Nozuki. There is no explanation as to just what roles they will have in the movie, but it is clear that there will more than certainly be multiple combatants taking part in the fight for control. All we can do now is wait and see for sure when more information becomes available in regards to the movie.