The Kaiju/Monsterverse Thread (Kong & Godzilla)

[The Joker]

Was that something you did, BF93?

[BatmanFanatic93]

Yep

[The Dark Knight]

Looks like Godzilla is going to have alot of company for the sequel. 

Hopefully we see more action this time.

The Skull Island movie has more of my interest.

[The Joker]

Best description of the footage shown at SDCC I have found.

http://www.godzilla-movies.com/community/forums/topic/36887

Sounds pretty good from this guy's summary of what was shown. Was somewhat initially surprised that all three essential Kaiju's from the Godzilla franchise (Mothra, Rodan, Ghidorah) are going to be included in the sequel, but maybe not so much with Legendary additionally announcing a King Kong reboot. The likelihood of "King Kong vs. Godzilla Part Deaux" being the way to cap off a Edwards Godzilla trilogy seems very possible now. Especially considering the Universal partnership.

Also, with 4 Kaiju's appearing in Godzilla 2, carnage will definitely ensue. The inclusion of Ghidorah especially leads towards that outcome. Since that's pretty much his deal. Hopefully, they won't go all Michael Bay with it, and give us action upon action where it just becomes numbing and meaningless, but evidently it works (as far as receipts go) for modern day audiences who have grown accustomed, and expect that.

[BatmanFanatic93]

The likelihood of "King Kong vs. Godzilla Part Deaux" being the way to cap off a Edwards Godzilla trilogy seems very possible now. Especially considering the Universal partnership.

... but how would it work though?Considering the fact that godzilla is the good guy in legendary universe i don't see how they would make the two fight each other.

[The Joker]

... but how would it work though?Considering the fact that godzilla is the good guy in legendary universe i don't see how they would make the two fight each other.

Yeah, I've thought about that too. I guess they could slowly make Godzilla more antagonistic towards humans in the sequel. Especially since Mothra is typically considered the most friendly towards humans Kaiju in the Toho universe. Orrrrr .... Maybe they'll take the usual superhero vs. superhero route where there's a fight, or two, or three, but later team up against the "real" baddie/baddies of the film?

You could spin the scenario of pitting King Kong vs. Godzilla several different ways, but with Legendary throwing in the more popular Kaiju's into the Godzilla sequel, and Legendary rebooting, rather than remaking King Kong with "Skull Island", the logical, or obvious way to top a Godzilla 2 with Rodan/Mothra/Ghidorah, would be, "King Kong vs. Godzilla".

[BatmanFanatic93]

Yeah, I've thought about that too. I guess they could slowly make Godzilla more antagonistic towards humans in the sequel. Especially since Mothra is typically considered the most friendly towards humans Kaiju in the Toho universe. Orrrrr .... Maybe they'll take the usual superhero vs. superhero route where there's a fight, or two, or three, but later team up against the "real" baddie/baddies of the film?

You could spin the scenario of pitting King Kong vs. Godzilla several different ways, but with Legendary throwing in the more popular Kaiju's into the Godzilla sequel, and Legendary rebooting, rather than remaking King Kong with "Skull Island", the logical, or obvious way to top a Godzilla 2 with Rodan/Mothra/Ghidorah, would be, "King Kong vs. Godzilla".

See?This is why the 2014 film let me down alot cause when gareth said he was gonna back to the dark roots of the original 1954 godzilla film i assumed he also mean't godzilla was gonna be the bad guy again or at least an anti-hero like in the Heisei series which would've worked great in godzilla 2014 but nope they had to make him the good guy like in the later showa series & killing any chances of godzilla fighting his old foes aside from Ghidorah & other aliens/mutants like Gigan,Megalon,& Hedorah.

[The Joker]

See?This is why the 2014 film let me down alot cause when gareth said he was gonna back to the dark roots of the original 1954 godzilla film i assumed he also mean't godzilla was gonna be the bad guy again or at least an anti-hero like in the Heisei series which would've worked great in godzilla 2014 but nope they had to make him the good guy like in the later showa series & killing any chances of godzilla fighting his old foes aside from Ghidorah & other aliens/mutants like Gigan,Megalon,& Hedorah.

I've probably said it before, but G'14 was a film that acknowledged alot of the different eras of the Toho films. However, I never really got the vibe that Godzilla was portrayed as being the heroic Earth Defender as seen in the later Showa films until maybe perhaps the conclusion of the film where he's being heralded as such. Outside of that, the film consistently conveys Godzilla as a very real potential threat, especially with the opening credit sequence, the tsunami/bridge scenes, military strategizing how their planning to kill him, ect, which are scenes that would have never been shot for a Godzilla movie during the later Showa era, and I would think much more in line with the anti-hero portrayal of the Heisei series, until it's fairly evident that Godzilla is basically disinterested in humans, and essentially much more focused solely on hunting the Muto's. From my viewpoint, all of this ultimately painted Godzilla, and even the Muto's, as being much more animalistic than heroic or villainous. Especially in context of the film with the info we are given by Monarch.   

[BatmanFanatic93]

Just out of curiosity joker have you ever read the prequel comic?

[The Joker]

Just out of curiosity joker have you ever read the prequel comic?

I did.