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[TheEvilDog]

With the release of Kong: Skull Island, Legendary's own shared universe has become a reality.

Taking a page from the MCU (as well as three of its stars), Kong (no spoilers) has set up the next film in the franchise via a post credit scene. But more importantly, we have background for the series, as well as some key information.

The next film will be 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which will be directed by Michael Dougherty (who directed Trick 'r Treat and Krampus, as well as a writer of X2, X-Men Apocalypse and Superman Returns), followed by Godzilla Vs Kong in 2020.

So anyone else excited?

[TheEvilDog]

Okay, a couple of months ago, Legendary announced the "writer's room" they had put together to develop the Monsterverse and to help put together a script for Godzilla vs Kong. The team is headed up by;
Terry Rossio (who wrote an unused script for Tristar's '98 Godzilla). Don't hold that against him, Terry Rossio is one of the most successful scriptwriters of the last 25 years, as his credits include Disney's Aladdin, PotC: Curse of the Black Pearl and Shrek.
J. Michael Straczynski, most famous for creating Babylon 5, Sense8 and the 2011 Thor film.
T.S. Nowlin, who has written the screenplay for Pacific Rim: Uprising.
Patrick McKay, writer for Star Trek Beyond and the upcoming Star Trek sequel.
J.D. Payne, worked with Patrick McKay on the Star Trek films.
Lindsey Beer, something of a wildcard, but she has been announced as the writer for several upcoming projects, including M.A.S.K. (Yes, the 80s Cartoon/toyline), Dungeons and Dragons and the remake of Short Circuit (Johnny 5 is alive?)
Cat Vasko - Who wrote Grrl Scouts
Jack Paglen, writer of Transcendence (2010) and Alien: Covenant

So its a pretty good looking mix of writers, looks like they really want to make sure the shared universe gets off to the right start, especially with J. Micheal Straczynski on the team, his experience with tying together a universe.

Still waiting on that remake of the Beast from 20,000 Fathoms...

[TheEvilDog]

Dusting the cobwebs off this thread because, well, its relevant again.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters has been released and has currently made around $300 million at the box office. There are some concerns however that given the film's budget ($170m) and marketing costs, KotM might barely break even.

That said, Michael Dougherty has confirmed that a fan favourite kaiju was in the film. Just not how you expected them.

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During the scene in Godzilla's underwater lair, there is a skeleton of a Titan. Michael Dougherty has suggested that its the remains of the Monsterverse's version of Anguirus. So bang goes the theory that Methuselah was going to be Anguirus.

[LeeC]

I am watching "WatchMojo" covering easter eggs from the movie we may not have noticed and one of them made me so happy.

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In the credits whwere they are showing newspapers hyping up Kong v Godzilla, one of the newspapers shows another Mothra egg has been found. This made me so happy.  Granted its par for the course in that Mothra dies a lot in the old movies, it was quite cool to know she'll be back.

[TheEvilDog]

Yeah, there are several little easter eggs and links that a lot of people miss.

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- Like Mothra's legs being quite similar to the MUTOs from the first Legendary film, indicating that her species might be related to theirs.
- The female MUTO's severed head was being kept in the Antarctica facility, because its the only place cold enough and large enough for MONARCH to study it.
- Michael Dougherty has confirmed that Ghidorah's left head was nicknamed "Kevin". And it was also the most easily distracted. And its the surviving part of Ghidorah. So yeah, if they decide to bring in Mecha-Ghidorah, Kevin could be the one in charge...
- The Oxygen Destroyer has completed ruined Isla Del Mara's fishing based economy, hence why the fishermen were forced to sell Kevin to Jonah.
- Behemoth was only added because Michael Dougherty wanted a mammalian titan counterpart to Kong after realising that every titan that had been designed was reptilian or insectoid.

[LeeC]

I wonder if Jonah is going to be swallowed up by a titanic whale. The Titan "Moby Dick" may suffice here.   

[TheEvilDog]

Hell, I'd settle for him getting killed like Samuel L Jackson did in Skull Island.

[TheEvilDog]

Also, there is only one scene I want to see in Godzilla vs King Kong next year.

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[LeeC]

Not sure if I shared this here before (the forum that is) but here is a Warhammer 40k Tyranid army modeled to look like Godzilla characters. Its Hive Fleet Gojira!
https://imgur.com/gallery/pJtGTVm

[Blue Kitty]

I finally watched Godzilla: King of the Monsters and I didn't know I was gonna get as emotional during the fight scenes as I did. Not full on crying, but some tears streaming down my face during the climactic fight

[LeeC]

[Blue Kitty]