Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)

[Zivouhr]

The neon magenta/pink energy is new for Godzilla, but if he still kicks @ss, that is what counts.

This is the fastest I've ever seen Godzilla, sprinting next to Kong! This could be entertaining. I hope they give Godzilla more depth and make him an actual character in this film, instead of just a massive, destructive creature. Like give him some moments where he has to make choices! Should he save Kong, or kill the monster they're fighting instead? That's a character development moment IMO.

[starsteam]

According to the toys that are already appearing in stores, Titanus Doug is a real thing now.

I'm already team Doug > team Sumo.

Also Kong wears the B.E.A.S.T glove.

[Mikezilla3k]

New plot leak just dropped and it actually sounds good.

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Set after the events of GvK, humanity is now more embracing towards Godzilla and how he chooses to handle the Titans.

Movie begins with Godzilla battling and defeating a spider-like Titan in Rome. In a comical scene, after the fight Godzilla falls asleep in the Roman colosseum. (Original test screenings dubbed the spider-Titan "Arachnid" but more recent test screeners identified it as Scylla.)

Meanwhile Kong is running things deep down in the Hollow Earth, we see him on the hunt leading a pack of death jackal-like creatures into a trap. (Original test screeners dubbed the creatures Kong's hunting as "Wart Dogs" but more recent test screeners identified them as the Death Jackals.)

Doug makes a cameo and steals Kong's Wart Dog/Death Jackal he'd successfully caught.

Monarch is mostly tied up with the military this go-round while Jia, Rebecca Hall's character and a new Monarch scientist played by Dan Stevens monitors Kong in the Hollow Earth. Dan Stevens is a flamboyant character and even serves as Kong's dentist. Jia starts having nightmares and visions of a Titan uprising inside the Hollow Earth lead my a mysterious threat known as the "Skar King".

Skar King is a brutal, power-hungry orangutan-like Titan who's enslaved a troop of Kongs and rules his underground empire with an iron fist. He sports a whip made of Titan bone that he wears around his shoulder like a bullet chain, at the tip of his whip is a crystal that can control his secret weapon that he plans to unleash on the surface world- a particularly ancient Titan called Shimo. Shimo is a huge, pearlescent reptile-like Titan that somewhat resembles a bearded dragon, it has ice-based abilities and blue ice crystals that align its head and back. Skar King rides it into battle. (Early test screeners referred to Shimo as a male and the father of all Titans but more recent test screenings identified Shimo as female.)

Kong inadvertently frees Skar King from his Hollow Earth imprisonment and meets a small juvenile ape Titan called Suko, Suko alongside a group of apes jump Kong but Kong grabs Suko and uses him as a blunt weapon to fight off the apes. Kong and Skar King face off where Kong's defeated, loses his axe, and has his arm frost bitten by Shimo.

Suko later gets caught in one of Kong's traps and is left behind by the rest of the Skar King troop, we learn Suko's not as aggressive as Skar King and he and Kong begin to bond.

Up on the surface world, Godzilla senses the disturbance going on inside the Hollow Earth and begins preparing for war by supercharging on a French power plant, he then fights and kills Tiamat in Greenland and uses her lair to "evolve". I think the implication is that some of her energy dissipated into the surroundings which is why Godzilla has the purple/pink energy now. (Just a guess)

An ancient tribe of Iwi are revealed to have survived deep in the Hollow Earth. They foresaw Skar King's return so they use Jia to summon Mothra whom they discover in an underground Iwi Temple guarded by webbing. Skar King leads his troop to the Iwis home in an attempt to find a way to the surface.

After receiving medical attention for his arm in the form of an anatomech brace, Kong resurfaces in Cairo where he calls out to Godzilla for help, sensing Kong, Godzilla awakens from his stasis now evolved and rippling with atomic energy and angrily makes a beeline to Kong and upon seeing him, attacks without hesitation. Kong attempts to reason with Godzilla but he refuses to listen and eventually pins him to the ground again, before Godzilla can finish Kong off, Mothra arrives and defuses the situation. Through her intervention, she convinces Godzilla and Kong to work together.

Godzilla and Kong travel back down into the Hollow Earth to face off against Skar King's army. Mothra plays a support role in the final battle, she helps keep Skar King's ape troop at bay while Godzilla and Kong battle Skar King and Shimo. She fights using her classic wing scale pollen from the Toho movies and webbing to wrap up apes. Right as they clash, the Iwi activate a device that manipulates the gravity leading to a sequence where Godzilla, Kong, Mothra, and Suko battle the army in zero gravity (most of Skar King's army of apes are taken out here by Mothra and Suko while Kong and Godzilla focus on the two heavy hitters). The gravity reactivates and Godzilla, Kong, Skar King, and Shimo fall through a portal that drops them all off in Rio De Janeiro, where the rest of the fight takes place.

Towards the end of the battle, Skar King tries to defend himself against an attacking Godzilla with his whip but Godzilla catches it in his mouth and breaks it, dropping the control crystal enslaving Shimo and sending it sliding across the ground. As Kong and Skar King scramble to recapture it, Suko comes in last second with Kong's axe and brings it down on the gem, breaking the control over Shimo. Skar King then receives the beating of a lifetime by Godzilla, Kong, and Shimo before she freezes Skar King solid with her ice breath and Kong smashes him into a million pieces.

The movie ends with Godzilla firing his atomic breath into the sky to dissipate Shimo's ice age blizzard she'd created before he swims back to Rome to rest in the colosseum while Kong and Suko ride Shimo back into the Hollow Earth where they free all the enslaved apes.

[format916]

Looks like a superhero movie with animals.

[NARMAK]

I just want to see big monster beat downs and destruction galore with a lean and tight pacing from one fight to the next.

[Mikezilla3k]

Originally Posted by format916

Looks like a superhero movie with animals.

Ah yes, giant monsters thrown together for a big monster batch.

Clearly this is superhero's influence on it and not something that's been done before at all:

[Mr. Chaverria]

I'm weary cuz of what Godzilla vs. Kong was. Not so much cuz of the fights, just cuz of crap humor we're in danger of getting.

[rooboy78]

Originally Posted by Mr. Chaverria

I'm weary cuz of what Godzilla vs. Kong was. Not so much cuz of the fights, just cuz of crap humor we're in danger of getting.

Totally agreed. The humor (especially with Bernie) was cringe. And considering that character is returning, I�m worried too.

[tcripe]

Originally Posted by rooboy78

Totally agreed. The humor (especially with Bernie) was cringe. And considering that character is returning, I�m worried too.

Dont expect this movie to be any different tone wise than GvK. Same exact creative team.

[Zivouhr]

That was cool when a lot of the big monsters joined together to help combat the evil monsters.

The human characters are still being cast as the main stars, so they really have to carry the show when the giants aren't onscreen. I hope we get less analytical scenes examining statistics and probabilities or trying to find ways to stop the creatures, and more scenes where the humans are directly interacting with the Giants, like in Kong: Skull Island. That was cool as much of that film was an adventure IMO.

The new Godzilla Minus One did have a big focus on the hero with the girlfriend and adopted daughter, which helped balance some of those war room scenes planning strategies to stop Godzilla, but those were actually interesting too as the

[Show spoiler]hero was involved with those also, willing to be a pilot.

That was one of the better human stories I've seen in awhile for Godzilla films.

My Ranking of Hollywood style Godzilla films so far:

Godzilla 2014 3D
Kong: Skull Island 3D
Godzilla vs Kong 3D
Godzilla: King of Monsters 3D

[starsteam]

Another toy leak is spreading around with a pretty big spoiler. Be wary.

[Show spoiler]Mothra returns.

[icyteddy]

Originally Posted by Mikezilla3k

New plot leak just dropped and it actually sounds good.

It sounds like a fun eye candy movie. I don't expect it to be a serious tone film like Godzilla Minus One. I'm all in for this one.

[Janjira54]

[rdawsoniii]

I like Godzilla, but prefer Kong.

To me, Godzilla is better suited to be a menace rather than the hero. Kong fits the role of protector better, because, as an ape, is capable of human-like emotions, which also make him a more sympathetic character.

The biggest beef I have with Godzilla, is that they have made him immortal. Nothing can kill him now. Kong can die. He has weaknesses. Even Superman has kryptonite.

That makes him easier to root for.....at least to me.

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by rdawsoniii

I like Godzilla, but prefer Kong.

To me, Godzilla is better suited to be a menace rather than the hero. Kong fits the role of protector better, because, as an ape, is capable of human-like emotions, which also make him a more sympathetic character.

The biggest beef I have with Godzilla, is that they have made him immortal. Nothing can kill him now. Kong can die. He has weaknesses. Even Superman has kryptonite.

That makes him easier to root for.....at least to me.

The Netflix animated movies did Godzilla as a more force of nature antagonist. I think here the movies have tried to "humanise" Godzilla a bit more though because that's the story they've gone with. Him as an "Alpha" at the top when it came to the sequel for examples. Also, bear in mind that he actually needed a lot of human intervention near the end of the 2nd movie because Ghidorah almost killed him and even in the final fight, Mothra had to sacrifice pretty much to let him get the W.

[Sea Hag]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

Also, bear in mind that he actually needed a lot of human intervention near the end of the 2nd movie because Ghidorah almost killed him and even in the final fight, Mothra had to sacrifice pretty much to let him get the W.

Not a fan of �King of the Monsters� but if it weren�t for human intervention the Big G had Ghidorah in their ocean tussle.

[therealjondoe]

Originally Posted by rooboy78

Totally agreed. The humor (especially with Bernie) was cringe. And considering that character is returning, I�m worried too.

Also too many kids

[filmbuffTX]

Release date moved up to March 29, 2024.

[BluBonnet]

Gojira!!!

[CompleteCount]

The recent ones have been OK, but they're missing a certain something...

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