Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) - Part 1

[Loden Greatstorm]

I'd imagine it's not going to be a remake of the original Godzilla vs Kong, there's likely a third creature they'll need to team up to overcome.

Most definitely.

 

[Kane52630]

Double Toasted posted a hilarious review for the trailer on youtube.

 

[The Big G]

I finally subscribed to DOuble Toasted

I love Corey and Martin

 

[jmc]

I must say the number of non-Godzilla fans I've seen excited for this now really shows how good that trailer was.

 

[Consona]

Gamera is still in maximum security for the attempted murder of one of his co-stars. You think that was in the script? That other guy was sleeping with Gamera's wife!

This thing is gonna need a Kaiju sized runtime with all these elements.

I'd imagine it's not going to be a remake of the original Godzilla vs Kong, there's likely a third creature they'll need to team up to overcome.

You really want those BvS Mothra memes to come true.

 

[Arachnerd]

I think Destoroyah would work best as an endgame villain. If GvK ends up being the last of the Monsterverse movies, I could see him being included in there somehow.

Then again, they might intentionally want to make the film smaller in scale and just focus on the Godzilla and Kong fight with no team-up or other kaiju featured. We'll see how it goes.

 

[Drizzle]

You really want those BvS Mothra memes to come true.

 

[Arachnerd]

Mothra's probably gonna die in KOTM anyway.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I must say the number of non-Godzilla fans I've seen excited for this now really shows how good that trailer was.

It really was a spectacular trailer. I'm a Godzilla fan but I showed it to a friend who hates out there movies and he was intrigued.

Ghidrah gave me chills.

 

[Abudefduf]

Um, has anyone else seen this alleged plot leak from 4chan? When I first read it I dismissed it as fake, but now that I've seen the trailer... it seems like it was accurate.

Don't read it if you don't want to spoil the whole movie for yourself.

EDIT: Okay, I took down the link because there were some curse words in the document. You can find it on the MonsterVerse subreddit, if you want.

EDIT 2: Or... I can copy-paste the whole thing here. Again, huge SPOILERS! Huger than Godzilla's ass!

Spoiler

Eco terrorists want to unleash the monsters that are being held in Monarch bases. They let a newly born Mothra escape while getting a machine that the monsters, called Titans in the movie, respond to. They awaken King Ghidorah (referred to as Monster Zero at this point), who was frozen and being studied at a base in Antarctica. Godzilla shows up but gets his ass kicked.

Eco-terrorists go to Mexico to unleash another Titan. It's Rodan, who's fire based now for some reason. Both Godzilla and Ghidorah show up. Godzilla and Rodan fight for a bit, but before Godzilla can kill him, Ghidorah starts attacking Godzilla. Godzilla manages to bite off one of his heads. The military shoots an experimental weapon called an Oxygen Destroyer at them. Godzilla seemingly dies, but Ghidorah not only survives but reveals that he can completely regenerate his head. Ghidorah screams and causes all the Titans on Earth to go on a rampage, Rodan becomes his *****.

Monarch finds out Godzilla is still alive because Mothra sends signals at him (their ancestors worked together all the time) and so Monarch plans to revive him with nukes. Due to ********, the only way to do it is to manually detonate it at his face. Asian guy (Ken Watanabe) from the first movie does it, dies in the process. Godzilla is now supercharged, which is what the op (the newly released photo of Godzilla from KOTM) is depicting. The Titans are drawn to Boston where the final battle takes place.

Mothra, Godzilla, and the military all work together to stop Ghidorah. Mothra brutally wounds Rodan with a stinger it's revealed to have. Ghidorah kills Mothra. Godzilla uses atomic aura blasts to melt away most of Ghidorah and then eats him alive. Ghidorah's is trying come out from his mouth, but Godzilla uses atomic breath, killing him for good. The other Titans show up be and see Godzilla as the alpha Titan and literally bow to him.

—

Main character is an ex-Monarch scientist whose son died in the San Francisco battle in the first movie. He had falling out with his wife, who's also a Monarch scientist, because she's still sympathetic to the Titans despite what happened. He left the organization and her to raise their daughter on her own.

Movie opens with the ex-wife and her kid at the base that's studying the egg of Mothra. Mothra awakens and starts freaking out. The ex-wife uses the opportunity to use a machine she's been working called the Orca that sends out frequencies the Titans respond to. She successfully uses it to calm baby Mothra. Then the eco-terrorists show up, kidnap the ex-wife and kid along with their machine. Mothra escapes in the confusion and goes a into a cocoon in a waterfall.

Monarch reaches out to the main character, since he helped his ex-wife build Orca and can track the frequencies they use. He doesn't get along with the Monarch characters since they all have boners for the Titans. He's able tell that the eco-terrorists are headed to Antarctica. The eco-terrorists are lead by an ex-British special forces guy (played by Charles Dance) who grew to resent humanity after all the wars he's been in. A team is sent to take out the terrorists and rescue the ex-wife and the kid. The main guy sneaks into the base himself. He finds his family, but they don't wanna go. The ex-wife activates Orca and awakens Ghidorah. Both human groups barely escape while Ghidorah goes on a rampage. Back at Monarch, everyone is confused as to why the ex-wife freed Ghidorah. They get a broadcast from the ***** herself and she explains that she was working for the terrorists the whole time. She explains that they want to free the Titans so they can stop humanity from ****ing the planet and let nature control itself again. Main guy and the ***** argue for a bit and she reveals that she raised the kid to believe the same nonsense.

Main guy is understandably upset. The terrorists head to Mexico to unleash Rodan. The kid is having second thoughts after seeing what Ghidorah can do. The ***** assures her that everything is under control. They awaken Rodan and lots of people die. The kid is now super not on board.

The main guy starts to warm up to Godzilla and helps the other guys come up with a way to revive him so he can stop Ghidorah. They track Godzilla to an ancient city deep within the ocean. It's a place where people once worshipped Godzilla and it's full of radiation that he feeds off from. They take a sub take so they can use a nuke to jump start him. The thing that fires the missiles is not working. The only way the plan would work is for someone to physically take the nuke to Godzilla and detonate it, but it would be suicide because of the high radiation. Ken Watanabe volunteers himself and says goodbye to his comrades. He sets up the nuke in front of Godzilla. He puts his hand on Godzilla and tells him "Goodbye, old friend" in Japanese.

The plan worked and Godzilla is ready to throw down. With all the Titans running around, major cities are being evacuated, including Boston where the terrorists are hiding. The ***** realizes that Ghidorah is basically evil and will **** up everything harder than humans ever could. She urges the British guy to let her hook up the Orca to the speaker system in Fenway Park to lure all the titans there so hopefully one of them can take out Ghidorah. British guy doesn't really care, but the kid overhears the conversation and sneaks out with the Orca to do her mom's plan.

The kid successfully lures the Titans to Boston but is attacked by Ghidorah. The mom realizes what happened and goes out to save the kid, the eco-terrorists don't help her and they **** off for the rest of the movie. The final battle happens, Ghidorah and Godzilla are the only ones left, but Godzilla is losing. The family is reunited but see Godzilla having trouble. The mom decides to redeem herself and uses the Orca to distract Ghidorah long enough for Godzilla to get his **** together. The mom dies and Godzilla kills Ghidorah. In the after credits, the British guy buys what I think is supposed to be a newly born Destroyah from some fishermen, it's hard to tell since the cgi isn't finished.

*

Anguirus makes a cameo, a lot of new ORIGINAL monsters are shown as well in the scene of Earth's monsters rampaging.

 

[Schlosser85]

Some of that sounds kind of lame.

 

[Deck Rickard]

You really want those BvS Mothra memes to come true.

LOL.

But yeah, I could see Godzilla and Kong teaming up because this universe has established them both as the "good guys."

I just worry GvK will end feeling underwhelming after this. I really liked Skull Island, but I'll be honest, I've never found Kong to be a very interesting Kaiju. I guess because I've seen a ton of gorillas in my life. Not giant ones of course, but visually, I guess he's not as interesting as Godzilla or Ghidorah or Rodan. Even Mothra I find more interesting visually, because even though I've seen plenty of moths in real life, giant bugs are just cool.

So they might need some other Kaiju monsters to appear so that it lives up to this G:KOTM. Honestly, some of the most interesting visuals in Skull Island were ones that didn't feature Kong (giant spiders, those underground skull creatures, etc.).

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

LOL.

But yeah, I could see Godzilla and Kong teaming up because this universe has established them both as the "good guys."

I just worry GvK will end feeling underwhelming after this. I really liked Skull Island, but I'll be honest, I've never found Kong to be a very interesting Kaiju. I guess because I've seen a ton of gorillas in my life. Not giant ones of course, but visually, I guess he's not as interesting as Godzilla or Ghidorah or Rodan. Even Mothra I find more interesting visually, because even though I've seen plenty of moths in real life, giant bugs are just cool.

So they might need some other Kaiju monsters to appear so that it lives up to this G:KOTM. Honestly, some of the most interesting visuals in Skull Island were ones that didn't feature Kong (giant spiders, those underground skull creatures, etc.).

Come on man.

Godzilla fights a 3 headed dragon who's wings can cause catastrophic thunderstorms just by flapping alone? But I'm supposed to believe he's having trouble fighting a giant gorilla after that? They should've did GvK next year and save this movie for 2020.

I wanna see Godzilla vs the Cloverfield Monster though.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Come on man.

Godzilla fights a 3 headed dragon who's wings can cause catastrophic thunderstorms just by flapping alone? But I'm supposed to believe he's having trouble fighting a giant gorilla after that? They should've did GvK next year and save this movie for 2020.

I wanna see Godzilla vs the Cloverfield Monster though.

Yeah, that's my point. Ghidorah feels like a "final boss". Kong feels like middle management.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Yeah, that's my point. Ghidorah feels like a "final boss". Kong feels like middle management.

Maybe they'll give Kong a Gorilla Grodd armor/power up so he can stand a chance lol.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah, Kong needs to have some sort of power to be able to stand a chance against Godzilla, doesn't he? I mean, Godz has atomic breath, KG has lighting powers, Rodan is like a flying volcano and Mothra has some sort of powers too, right? Kong is just super strong.

 

[legendkillin]

Yeah, Kong needs to have some sort of power to be able to stand a chance against Godzilla, doesn't he? I mean, Godz has atomic breath, KG has lighting powers, Rodan is like a flying volcano and Mothra has some sort of powers too, right? Kong is just super strong.

Wasn't Kong basically a baby in Skull Island. I only watched it once but I thought they showed skeletons of bigger apes/possible parents. He should get bigger to oppose Godzilla. Strength, durability, and being smart.

 

[legendkillin]

I'd imagine it's not going to be a remake of the original Godzilla vs Kong, there's likely a third creature they'll need to team up to overcome.

Yeah, can't do a straight up fight to end the movie. They don't want to upset a fan base by having a winner/loser.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Wasn't Kong basically a baby in Skull Island. I only watched it once but I thought they showed skeletons of bigger apes/possible parents. He should get bigger to oppose Godzilla. Strength, durability, and being smart.

Yeah, they said he was still growing, which he'll need to to be able to face off against Godzilla. Because in KSI, I think he was about the same size as he was in previous Kong solo films, which would be way smaller than the Toho monsters. But I think he would also need some other type of power to really be able to battle Godzilla.

Anyway, this may have already been posted, but here's an interesting theory about Charles Dance's character possibly being an older James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston). It would line up pretty well; I could see Hiddleston aging into Dance after 40 years. Although since it's Charles Dance, one has to wonder if Conrad turned evil in his old age, lol.

 

[TheVileOne]

The ape skulls in Kong Skull Island were not much bigger at all.

 

[Consona]

Ghidorah feels like a "final boss". Kong feels like middle management.

I think they'll have to be really creative to make in more awesome. Kong in an intelligent ape, they should make him do some crazy strategic stuff and s**t. I don't know. Epic scale-wise of course you cannot top Godzi+Mothra+Rodan+army vs Ghidorah. (Makes me literally drool just typing that. )

I think fights in both G2014 and Skull Island were very good, but I liked Edwards Godzi way more than KSI. It overall felt more mythic and cryptic and atmospheric to me. I'm really curious about the tone of GKotM and KvG. I liked the human element in G2014, and it seems this film will have a lof of it too, but I really can't wait for the story of KvG. Can't imagine what it will be about. Somehow shaping the characters of those two big guys, coming up with some good reason for them to fight, etc. But the more we see these monsters the more it becomes just a destruction derby, because they are here and we know about them, rather than some mythical story about enigmatic creatures, which is something I like probably the most.

 

[Consona]

They made Godzi way too cute. Look at that expression, all you want to say is "Who's a good boy?". t:

 

[BrollySupersj]

Um, has anyone else seen this alleged plot leak from 4chan? When I first read it I dismissed it as fake, but now that I've seen the trailer... it seems like it was accurate.

Don't read it if you don't want to spoil the whole movie for yourself.

EDIT: Okay, I took down the link because there were some curse words in the document. You can find it on the MonsterVerse subreddit, if you want.

EDIT 2: Or... I can copy-paste the whole thing here. Again, huge SPOILERS! Huger than Godzilla's ass!

Spoiler

Eco terrorists want to unleash the monsters that are being held in Monarch bases. They let a newly born Mothra escape while getting a machine that the monsters, called Titans in the movie, respond to. They awaken King Ghidorah (referred to as Monster Zero at this point), who was frozen and being studied at a base in Antarctica. Godzilla shows up but gets his ass kicked.

Eco-terrorists go to Mexico to unleash another Titan. It's Rodan, who's fire based now for some reason. Both Godzilla and Ghidorah show up. Godzilla and Rodan fight for a bit, but before Godzilla can kill him, Ghidorah starts attacking Godzilla. Godzilla manages to bite off one of his heads. The military shoots an experimental weapon called an Oxygen Destroyer at them. Godzilla seemingly dies, but Ghidorah not only survives but reveals that he can completely regenerate his head. Ghidorah screams and causes all the Titans on Earth to go on a rampage, Rodan becomes his *****.

Monarch finds out Godzilla is still alive because Mothra sends signals at him (their ancestors worked together all the time) and so Monarch plans to revive him with nukes. Due to ********, the only way to do it is to manually detonate it at his face. Asian guy (Ken Watanabe) from the first movie does it, dies in the process. Godzilla is now supercharged, which is what the op (the newly released photo of Godzilla from KOTM) is depicting. The Titans are drawn to Boston where the final battle takes place.

Mothra, Godzilla, and the military all work together to stop Ghidorah. Mothra brutally wounds Rodan with a stinger it's revealed to have. Ghidorah kills Mothra. Godzilla uses atomic aura blasts to melt away most of Ghidorah and then eats him alive. Ghidorah's is trying come out from his mouth, but Godzilla uses atomic breath, killing him for good. The other Titans show up be and see Godzilla as the alpha Titan and literally bow to him.

—

Main character is an ex-Monarch scientist whose son died in the San Francisco battle in the first movie. He had falling out with his wife, who's also a Monarch scientist, because she's still sympathetic to the Titans despite what happened. He left the organization and her to raise their daughter on her own.

Movie opens with the ex-wife and her kid at the base that's studying the egg of Mothra. Mothra awakens and starts freaking out. The ex-wife uses the opportunity to use a machine she's been working called the Orca that sends out frequencies the Titans respond to. She successfully uses it to calm baby Mothra. Then the eco-terrorists show up, kidnap the ex-wife and kid along with their machine. Mothra escapes in the confusion and goes a into a cocoon in a waterfall.

Monarch reaches out to the main character, since he helped his ex-wife build Orca and can track the frequencies they use. He doesn't get along with the Monarch characters since they all have boners for the Titans. He's able tell that the eco-terrorists are headed to Antarctica. The eco-terrorists are lead by an ex-British special forces guy (played by Charles Dance) who grew to resent humanity after all the wars he's been in. A team is sent to take out the terrorists and rescue the ex-wife and the kid. The main guy sneaks into the base himself. He finds his family, but they don't wanna go. The ex-wife activates Orca and awakens Ghidorah. Both human groups barely escape while Ghidorah goes on a rampage. Back at Monarch, everyone is confused as to why the ex-wife freed Ghidorah. They get a broadcast from the ***** herself and she explains that she was working for the terrorists the whole time. She explains that they want to free the Titans so they can stop humanity from ****ing the planet and let nature control itself again. Main guy and the ***** argue for a bit and she reveals that she raised the kid to believe the same nonsense.

Main guy is understandably upset. The terrorists head to Mexico to unleash Rodan. The kid is having second thoughts after seeing what Ghidorah can do. The ***** assures her that everything is under control. They awaken Rodan and lots of people die. The kid is now super not on board.

The main guy starts to warm up to Godzilla and helps the other guys come up with a way to revive him so he can stop Ghidorah. They track Godzilla to an ancient city deep within the ocean. It's a place where people once worshipped Godzilla and it's full of radiation that he feeds off from. They take a sub take so they can use a nuke to jump start him. The thing that fires the missiles is not working. The only way the plan would work is for someone to physically take the nuke to Godzilla and detonate it, but it would be suicide because of the high radiation. Ken Watanabe volunteers himself and says goodbye to his comrades. He sets up the nuke in front of Godzilla. He puts his hand on Godzilla and tells him "Goodbye, old friend" in Japanese.

The plan worked and Godzilla is ready to throw down. With all the Titans running around, major cities are being evacuated, including Boston where the terrorists are hiding. The ***** realizes that Ghidorah is basically evil and will **** up everything harder than humans ever could. She urges the British guy to let her hook up the Orca to the speaker system in Fenway Park to lure all the titans there so hopefully one of them can take out Ghidorah. British guy doesn't really care, but the kid overhears the conversation and sneaks out with the Orca to do her mom's plan.

The kid successfully lures the Titans to Boston but is attacked by Ghidorah. The mom realizes what happened and goes out to save the kid, the eco-terrorists don't help her and they **** off for the rest of the movie. The final battle happens, Ghidorah and Godzilla are the only ones left, but Godzilla is losing. The family is reunited but see Godzilla having trouble. The mom decides to redeem herself and uses the Orca to distract Ghidorah long enough for Godzilla to get his **** together. The mom dies and Godzilla kills Ghidorah. In the after credits, the British guy buys what I think is supposed to be a newly born Destroyah from some fishermen, it's hard to tell since the cgi isn't finished.

*

Anguirus makes a cameo, a lot of new ORIGINAL monsters are shown as well in the scene of Earth's monsters rampaging.

The trailer definitely confirmed a lot of that. If that last bit is true then...

Spoiler

Godzilla vs King Kong is not strictly going to be about their fight. Destroyah is going to be final villain of the series.

 

[the last son]

Underestimating Kong. He's faster and smarter. Godz should win, but I'll be rooting for Kong.

 

[Enriquespy]

In the end of Godzilla Vs Kong:

[BLACKOUT]Godzilla will rise from the waters in a beach, holding Kong's decapitated head, unbeknown to Godzilla the head winks at the audience, cue music.[/BLACKOUT]


It's the only ending that could make sense.