Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire NON-SPOILER THREAD

[Mac Daddy MM]

Dude, what's happening is bigger than DC.

So what exactly is going on because I'm far from following it. Looks as if they just cancelled before a final cut was made due to them wanting to focus on big budget DC films and inch away from simultaneous/direct to streaming releases for their films.

The short version is that the new head of Warners wants to prioritize theatrical releases, like you said. Its not a specific agenda against DC though.

Oh, yeah. I'm not worried at all.

[Legion1979]

To be honest, this is something I wish Disney would do. All their Disney+ original shit is really diluting their brand. It's the direct to video garbage all over again.

[BurningCoolMan]

Dude, what's happening is bigger than DC.

So what exactly is going on because I'm far from following it. Looks as if they just cancelled before a final cut was made due to them wanting to focus on big budget DC films and inch away from simultaneous/direct to streaming releases for their films.

The short version is that the new head of Warners wants to prioritize theatrical releases, like you said. Its not a specific agenda against DC though.

He's also infamously known to want movies made cheap and on a strict deadline. But at worst is that WB will no longer distribute movies for legendary and legendary would go somewhere like universal or 20th-century pictures

[miguelnuva]

Discovery is canceling these movies as tax write offs to civet some if the best for buying WB according to trades now.

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To be honest, this is something I wish Disney would do. All their Disney+ original poop is really diluting their brand. It's the direct to video garbage all over again.

Disney is not being diluted because Disney caters directly to consumers that are going to watch all of their stuff. Star Wars right now is proof of that and Marvel can't do wrong to its fans.

[Mac Daddy MM]

I still wouldn't worry too much about them trying to cancel it. Remember, WB/Legendary doesn't own Godzilla. And I have more than enough faith in how stingy, greedy and downright shady Toho can be when it comes to their biggest license. Even if its filmed and done, and WB/Discovery try the same move, I wouldn't be surprised to see Toho throwing its own weight around with something to the extant of them having a say. They have money wrapped up in this too.

Be one hell of an event though, to say the least.

[Garzon]

The new head of Warner Bros is a complete cheapskate, but WB are not the main ones financing the MonsterVerse movies, Legendary is.

[Godzillaninja2019]

What are the chances of legendary leaving WB due what ever going on with them and team up with another studio to distribute the 5 monsterverse film and if there are more films down the road. If that ever happen who should legendary team up with distribute the film.

[DynomikeGojira]

WB dated both this film and Dune 2 they're not going anywhere and besides Alan Horn is back with WB.

[Titanus_Rodan]

Sounds like we know what character Dan Stevens will be playing!

https://mobile.twitter.com/KDM_Monsters ... 2940101633

And yes he later clarifies that he meant grandson not son

[GojiSquid]

My first thought was "that's goofy as hell and I love it", but the more I've thought abt it, it makes a lot of sense. A throughline with Monarch, however well executed, has always been families and lineages. We get Eiji, Ishiro, and Ren Serizawa, the Russel parents and Madison Russel, the Chen generations, and the new tv show is apparently going to focus on a family discovering their Monarch lineage. So yeah, it makes a lot of sense that we get another Monarch alumni lineage.

[CyberZilla]

Sounds like we know what character Dan Stevens will be playing!

https://mobile.twitter.com/KDM_Monsters ... 2940101633

And yes he later clarifies that he meant grandson not son

Hey, that’s a fun connection. Like GojiSquid said, the familial ties that keep popping up with Monarch is interesting.

[Mac Daddy MM]

Sounds like we know what character Dan Stevens will be playing!

https://mobile.twitter.com/KDM_Monsters ... 2940101633

And yes he later clarifies that he meant grandson not son

Hey, that’s a fun connection. Like GojiSquid said, the familial ties that keep popping up with Monarch is interesting.

In before he has like 5 lines and pilots Mechani-Kong.

[LSD Jellyfish]

Some of the familal connections feel like a way to make the films seem more connected than they actually are, and keep more of a continual thread afloat. It also seems like a way to distract against how every film has a different set of main leads (with the exception being Maddison), which isn't a problem for me, but might be considered a problem by producers and other executives. To be clear, not aq deal breaker and won't affect my overall vision, but it's itneresting nontheless.

Could do some neat parallels to Skull Island with the exploration of the Hollow Earth in that regard.

[BurningCoolMan]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KDM_Monsters ... 5220348928

"The fifth film the MonsterVerse franchise will see Kong defend the Earth from the unusual and dangerous creatures that threaten his new home. But something is happening „above“ too..."

[Fermix]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KDM_Monsters ... 5220348928

"The fifth film the MonsterVerse franchise will see Kong defend the Earth from the unusual and dangerous creatures that threaten his new home. But something is happening „above“ too..."

Here is the source, though it omits that second sentence: https://www.arts.gov.au/departmental-ne ... queensland

[BurningCoolMan]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KDM_Monsters ... 5220348928

"The fifth film the MonsterVerse franchise will see Kong defend the Earth from the unusual and dangerous creatures that threaten his new home. But something is happening „above“ too..."

Here is the source, though it omits that second sentence: https://www.arts.gov.au/departmental-ne ... queensland

He seems to have a lot of inside information for the current shooting of this and the godzilla show, so I think he added that part to hint that godzilla will also be involved

[UltramanGoji]

Sounds like another split narrative like GVK, which I'm not too keen on.

[GojiSquid]

https://mobile.twitter.com/KDM_Monsters ... 5220348928

"The fifth film the MonsterVerse franchise will see Kong defend the Earth from the unusual and dangerous creatures that threaten his new home. But something is happening „above“ too..."

Here is the source, though it omits that second sentence: https://www.arts.gov.au/departmental-ne ... queensland

He seems to have a lot of inside information for the current shooting of this and the godzilla show, so I think he added that part to hint that godzilla will also be involved

Yeah, he probably added that to account for the filming that has been done for a Brazil scene. If this is a bi-plot narrative movie, I hope that the aboveground narrative is either a) the same characters from Team Godzilla, to avoid to many character introductions, or b) just Godzilla getting all the screentime (there's no reason not to this time, unlike in GvK).

[darthzilla99]

I know this is early in the filmmaking process, but this may not be a bi-narrative film. Most of the film could be taking place with Kong while the surface part might be the after credits cliffhanger for the proceeding film.

[Sammy19]

I wonder if they're bringing back Camazotz.