Godzilla vs. Kong is the culmination of Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures, i.e. Godzilla (2014), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Godzilla II: King of the Monsters . These productions are the canon of the present kaiju universe, but some elements of the presented world may change over time. An example would be the upcoming movie about the conflict between these beasts. According to information gathered by comicbook.com during a visit to the set in 2019, Godzilla vs. Kong will take place about four years after the King of Monsters and more than 40 years after the events of Skull Island.. That is why the giant gorilla will be even bigger than before.
You can see that Kong has grown up after watching the first trailer, when he faces a huge lizard and is about one height. It turns out that over the last 40 years it has grown by about 15-18 meters and is as big as Godzilla (about 122 meters tall). In addition to this, he has also acquired new abilities that are associated with new scars. This means that King Kong has become an even more formidable opponent than before, and this will be shown during the events of the upcoming movie. Alex Garcia, one of the producers, explains these changes:
Kong is bigger now, which has to do with one issue in “Skull Island” where it is said that he is still growing up. After these 40 years, it’s bigger, but it’s still the same Kong. He has a few tricks up his sleeve thanks to his contact with the modern world, and that is a tactical advantage over Godzilla. But it can’t breathe fire or anything like that. Godzilla is still a significant opponent and fate seems to be against Kong.
At the same time, director Adam Wingard assures that he stuck to the already established mythology. The previous MonsterVerse installations continue to serve as information on what has happened so far and what may result from it. Wingard has expressed a desire to keep one tone, so that Godzilla vs Kong is a sequel not only in name. As he put it:
Kong is a little different, but only because he has grown up. (…) Each of the previous directors, Gareth Edwards, Mike Dougherty, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, each of them left something behind in these films, each of the productions seems to be made by a specific director and this is what attracted me to this series: I wanted to do more than just Godzilla and Kong as conceived by Adam Wingard. I wanted it to be Godzilla, to which the last films and Kong from “Skull Island” have got us used to, in such a way that their fight would be a fight of these two characters.
And you, dear readers, what do you think about such a difference in time between Skull Island and Godzilla vs. Kong ? Did it help Kong increase his chances of defeating Godzilla, or is the result a foregone conclusion? Write in the comments what you think about it!
