While I'm not so sure about Kong, I honestly feel that Godzilla needs a son in this series. We have had three films where Godzilla's arc is: bad monster awakens, Godzilla almost dies, kills bad monster and goes to sleep. He needs new stakes because at this point he is pretty much invincible. The perfect stakes are giving Godzilla something he cares about that can be taken away. Kong already has attachment to ground his character and make the audience sympathize with him. Godzilla doesn't have this, and I feel like having baby Godzilla would allow for that.Vakanai wrote: ↑Sat May 01, 2021 7:07 am
I'm not saying it wouldn't be popular to way too many people. I'm saying, it wouldn't work for making a good movie. Sure, maybe a ton of merch would get sold and maybe social media would become even more annoying than it already is because some people love the cuteness. But personally, I don't care about merch and social media, just film quality. And it's hard to see that happening with a Son of Kong movie.
Besides, Groot/Yoda/Sonic have more cartoony wiggle room to up the adorable factor. Whereas a baby Kong is, will, a smaller Kong. Basically resembling closely a baby gorilla. There's not as much wiggle room in the design. Plus, you know, it's still a kaiju baby, so unlike those other examples it won't be tiny, which is part of the appeal. So we can't really say it'd receive the same success.
So, people might love the character, doesn't mean it'd help the film. And it's just a story I can't see being any good. I mean, the MV writers recently have kind of proven that they can't write a good script right now anyways, do we need to give them the worst route on top of that?
And is there really an announcement on a Baby Groot film or is this a guess?
As for cutesy factor? I dunno, if you told me that a baby Yoda would be the cutest thing in fiction before The Mandalorian came out, I wouldn't have believed you. Hollywood creatives can do incredible things.
So anyway, I feel like Son of Godzilla is the best route for his character. Kong? I feel like he has plenty of directions to go.
And I Am Groot, a series of animated shortfilms starring Baby Groot, was announced earlier this year. So not exactly a movie, but still.