Godzilla Prequel

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In addition to being directed by Adam Wingard, the film is produced by Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Eric McLeod, and Brian Rogers, with the screenplay written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, based on a story by Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields. The film is currently in production. King of the Monsters was written by Borenstein, Dougherty, and Shields as well. Godzilla vs. Kong is set five years after the events of King of the Monsters, and it follows Godzilla and Kong as they engage in a massive fight in the aftermath of Ghidorah's wrath.

There will be a sequel to the film.

In 2024, five years after Godzilla defeated and killed his alien foe Ghidorah in 2019, he and Kong are the only Titans on Earth. Skull Island's climate has become unstable as a result of a storm generated by Ghidorah combining with the storm cell that surrounds the island perpetually, forcing Monarch to confine Kong inside a dome-shaped facility that replicated the island's environment, with the assistance of an orphaned young Iwi girl named Jia, who is deaf and can communicate with Kong via sign language.

When Jia pays a visit to Kong and offers him a toy, the Titan, knowing that he is stuck within the biodome, discovers this and instantly tosses a tree at him.

Meanwhile, Bernie Hayes, an Apex Cybernetics employee and presenter of the Titan Truth Podcast, exfiltrates material indicating dark operations at a Pensacola Apex facility, but just as he finishes downloading the data, Godzilla appears and strikes. Among the debris of the facility, Bernie discovers a curious piece of technology that looks like a huge robotic eye during Godzilla's assault.

Apex founder and CEO Walter Simmons teams up with former Monarch scientist turned Hollow Earth theorist Nathan Lind as they search for a powerful energy source. As Nathan's brother tried to investigate the Hollow Earth, he was murdered by a tremendous anti-gravity field inside the tube. Apex has constructed Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, which are modified ships that can endure the gravity field's pressure, according to Walter.

To assist them in navigating to the Hollow Earth, Nathan travels to Skull Island and meets with his colleague, Monarch anthropological linguist and Jia's adoptive mother Ilene Andrews, with the idea of using Kong as their navigator to guide them to the energy source, as Skull Island is no longer able to contain him and allow him to survive (due to Kong's size). Though Ilene first refuses, explaining that Godzilla would come for Kong immediately upon his removal from Skull Island, she eventually agrees when Nathan convinces her that they must undertake this expedition in order to put an end to Godzilla's rampage and also find a new home for Kong.

Their struggle is broken up, however, when Godzilla is distracted by depth charges, allowing Kong to surface for air.

As there is nothing else to do, Nathan decides that the group should shut down all the ships' power to make Godzilla think that he destroyed them and Kong was defeated, which works out. Godzilla looks at the destroyed fleet with interest. He thinks he's won, so he swims away. Reactivating the ships would allow Godzilla to return, so the group changed their plans and instead flew Kong to Antarctica, where Ghidorah was first frozen, so Godzilla wouldn't come back. Jia tells Kong that his home is through the entrance, but he is too scared to go.

During this time, Madison and Josh come into Bernie, who recognizes Madison as Mark's daughter and decides to assist them with their inquiry since they suspect Apex was involved in Godzilla's shift in behavior. With Bernie's help, they infiltrate the devastated Apex facility, only to discover that the "eye" Bernie had mentioned before is no longer there. As they investigate a mysterious facility deep down, the gang is mistakenly imprisoned inside and carried via an underground conduit to Hong Kong in an antigravity transport vehicle transporting Skullcrawler eggs.

They come face to face with Apex's ultimate weapon, "Mechagodzilla" a mechanical Godzilla controlled by Ren Serizawa, the late Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's son. Once the mecha is powered up, Walter sends in a massive adult Skullcrawler known as "Number 10" to put Mechagodzilla's Titan-fighting powers to the test. Mechagodzilla grips and restrains the Skullcrawler as it approaches Madison, Josh, and Bernie, before cleaving it in half with a massive red energy beam. The mecha quickly shuts down due to the power supply's limitations.

Godzilla makes his way into the heart of the city and, upon detecting Kong's presence in the Hollow Earth, uses his atomic breath to dig a hole through the environment, causing the temple to collapse. When a flock of Hellhawks attacks, Kong and Nathan's team rush to the rescue, only for Kong to grab their HEAV on their way out, crushing it in his hand despite Maia's attempts to shoot him in order to escape. After peeking inside to make sure Jia, Ilene, and Nathan aren't in there, Kong immediately crushes the aircraft in his hand, killing Maia and her team on board.

Kong accepts Godzilla's challenge and sets off with his axe towards Hong Kong, followed by Ilene, Nathan, and Jia in their HEAV, a hole created by Godzilla's atomic breath. When Kong meets Godzilla in Hong Kong again, he gains the upper hand and shoves his axe down Godzilla's throat, preventing him from firing his atomic breath. Kong injures Godzilla in the thigh with his axe, but Godzilla removes and discards the axe. Kong reclaims his axe and wields it against Godzilla, generating an explosion that sends both Titans fleeing, giving Nathan the idea that Kong had won the second round of the Godzilla fight.

Godzilla recovers and rises up as he hunts for Kong atop a skyscraper. Kong ambushes Godzilla from above and holds him in a chokehold, attempting to strangle him. Despite Kong's attempts to get Godzilla off of him by striking his damaged leg, Godzilla breaks free and unleashes his entire rage on Kong, dislocating his left arm, slicing him with his claws, and even stomping on his chest twice. Godzilla roars angrily at Kong, his vanquished opponent who is bound and held down.

When Walter returns to the Apex headquarters, he is overjoyed and orders Ren to dispatch Mechagodzilla to fight Godzilla. Though Ren cautions him against utilizing the new Hollow Earth energy source without first testing it, he dismisses Ren's warning and tells him to activate the mecha without hesitation. Bernie, Madison, and Josh are apprehended by security for invading Apex headquarters and are transferred to Walter's place of confinement. Despite the fact that Madison blames Walter of inciting Godzilla to war and caused everything to come to this, Walter boldly says that he took responsibility for providing humanity a chance to fight back against Godzilla and the Titans in the first place.

While Josh and Bernie fail to remotely disable the rampaging robot, and Madison calls for aid from Mark, Godzilla and Mechagodzilla fight, each firing their energy beams at each other, locking together, only for Mechagodzilla to win, knocking Godzilla down and burning him. The trio approach an unconscious Kong, where Jia notices his pulse decreasing. They can't produce a big enough charge to restart Kong's heart, but Nathan remembers Maia's earlier comment about the HEAVs producing enough power to power Las Vegas for a week, so he flies the remaining HEAV onto Kong's chest and sets it to self-destruct, detonating the craft and releasing a huge electrical charge that instantly revives Kong.

Following his reawakening, Kong observes the fight between Godzilla and Mechagodzilla before encountering Jia, who attempts to persuade Kong that Godzilla is not really his adversary. Though Kong first disbelieves her as he continues to watch Godzilla being annihilated by Mechagodzilla, Jia explains to him that the robot is the "real" adversary, not Godzilla. After a brief while, Kong relinquishes his vengeance and enters fight to assist Godzilla in repairing his dislocated limb.

As Mechagodzilla prepares to fire its red energy beam down Godzilla's throat, Kong leaps onto the robot and redirects the beam into the air, saving Godzilla's life in the process. Realizing that Kong saved his life and sensing an ally in him upon seeing that he is not an enemy, Godzilla helps Kong fight against Mechagodzilla.

Godzilla sees Kong holding his axe and supercharges it with his atomic breath, enabling Kong to dismember Mechagodzilla limb from limb and take its head off before holding up his prize and resting.

In the aftermath, Nathan, Ilene and Jia sit together among the debris while Madison reunites with Mark and introduces him to Josh and Bernie, who is delighted to see Mark and invites him onto his podcast to talk about the Monarch facility in Roswell. Suddenly, their moment is interrupted when Godzilla approaches Kong, prompting the Titan to grab his axe and prepares to resume the fight. However, Godzilla doesn't attack and merely stares Kong down. Understanding that their true enemy has been defeated, Kong lowers his axe, putting an end to the feud between his kind and Godzilla's. Now that they are no longer rivals, Godzilla and Kong regard each other as equals before Godzilla returns to the sea peacefully as Kong and all the gathered humans watch.

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Godzilla vs. Kong has received a mostly favorable reception. As of April 16, 2021, the film has 341 reviews on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, 254 of which are fresh, with a "Tomatometer" rating of 74% certified Fresh. According to the site's reviewers' consensus section, "Delivering squarely on its title, Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you'd expect from giant monsters slugging it out."

As of April 17, 2021, the total box office for Godzilla: King of the Monsters has been eclipsed by Godzilla: Godzilla vs. Kong.

This film commemorates the first time in 59 years that Godzilla and King Kong appeared in a film together since 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla.

Kyle Chandler has been in two King Kong films, the first of which was Peter Jackson's 2005 remake, and this is his second appearance in the franchise.

Chandler's appearances in King Kong, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong establish him as the only actor to appear in a King Kong picture, a Godzilla film, and a crossover feature between the two.

After been dislocated previously, Kong uses a similar technique to reposition his dislocated right shoulder against a structure. This may allude to Martin Riggs's notorious ability in the Lethal Weapon series.

Eva Unit-02, like Godzilla, also leaps from ship to ship to evade an angel in a sequence that is reminiscent of Kong's.

The location where Mechagodzilla is stationed, which is subterranean and topped by a pyramid, is reminiscent of the Central Dogma, which is also underground and topped by a pyramid.