Godzilla vs. Kong

## Release chronology

"*These two don't like each other. Alphas never take too kindly of others trying to masquerade.*"
―Ilene Andrews
***Godzilla vs. Kong*** is a 2020 monster film uniting the iconic monsters Godzilla and King Kong once again. A sequel to *Godzilla*, *Kong of Skull Island* and *Godzilla II*, it is the 4th installment of the MonsterVerse. It was released on March 24, 2020.

The film is followed by sequels *The King Kong*, *Godzilla: Final Awakening*, *Destroy All Monsters*, *King Kong: Dynasty*, *Godzilla: Rebirth and Destruction*, and *The Godzilla Complex*.

The film introduces the Hollow Earth into the MonsterVerse.

## Synopsis

"*Legends collide as Godzilla and Kong, the two most powerful forces of nature, clash on the big screen in a spectacular battle for the ages.*"
―Legendary and Warner Bros.
## Plot

### Chapter 1: Skull Island

2018, King Ghidorah let's out an "alpha call" that awakens most MUTOs on Earth. On a cloudy Skull Island, Kong hears the call and feels the ground beneath him shaking, soon enough an onslaught of skullcrawlers emerge from the Earth and began racing towards the coast, Kong acts fast and fights to prevent the skullcrawlers from leaving the island, the onslaught caused many causalities for the Iwi, the natives of the island and the Monarch team stationed there. After killing all of the skullcrawlers, Kong checks up on the Iwi and cries out to the sky when he sees most of them dead, as he cries, he hears the cry of an 8 year old Iwi girl and comes to comfort her.

Five years later, Jia, the last of the Iwis whom Kong loved, visits Kong. Jia has been living with the Monarch team on Skull Island ever since her parents and the rest of her tribe died. Monarch plans to abandon Skull Island as it has become significantly more dangerous after Ghidorah's call lured more creatures into the island. Meanwhile they are faced with another problem as Kong grew close to Jia and would not be happy with being separated from her.

At the Monarch headquarters, they have been monitoring Godzilla, who has been going on a rampage throughout the Americas, walking through cities and jungles, seemingly looking for something. Houston Brooks hypothesizes that Godzilla is looking for an entrance to the Hollow Earth big enough for him to enter since the one on Atlantis had been destroyed, and he tells the crew that there is a giant hole somewhere in Skull Island that he thinks is an entrance to the Hollow Earth and that Godzilla will eventually get to that hole. Brooks requests that the long overdue mission to the Hollow Earth be taken. Serizawa hesitates as there is a high probability of Kong not welcoming Godzilla and they would fight. Brooks then tells him about some friends that he already contacted about the mission.

A technological company, Anderson-Maeda Enterprises, has taken interest in exploring the Hollow Earth and hired Nathan Lind, a former Monarch operative and one of Houston Brooks' apprentice in the field of Hollow Earth. They tell him that the mission is possible and they have developed HEAVs, specialized aircraft designed to explore the Hollow Earth.

In the Atlantic coast of Mexico, Godzilla has arrived and rampages through the country while Monarch observes until he reaches Pacific coast. Nathan Lind arrives in Skull Island and meets Houston Brooks and the Monarch team who will accompany him on the journey. The HEAVs are also already stationed on the island. On the other side of the island, an exploring crew has mapped the giant entrance to the Hollow Earth when suddenly a titan skullcrawler emerges from the hole and takes them down. Monarch is alerted and the team on the island is informed about what happened and Jia signs to Kong about it. Kong then sprints to the hole and encounters the titan skullcrawler, they fight until it is killed.

Sometime later, Godzilla is informed to have reached Skull Island and he began searching for the entrance, he then encounters Kong and **they fight**. The Monarch team quickly prepares to enter the entrance along with Godzilla. As Godzilla was fighting Kong, Kong was losing until Godzilla accidentally knocked Jia out, thinking Godzilla had killed her, Kong rampages and fought Godzilla until he finally reached the entrance and disappear into it. As Kong was still angry, he chases Godzilla and Monarch/AME follows them, they pass through a series of caves until they finally reached the Hollow Earth.

### Chapter 2: Hollow Earth

Kong has lost track of Godzilla and he is nowhere to be found. Kong and the Monarch/AME team traverse the fascinating underworld, noting many unidentified new species until they are suddenly attacked by a couple of parasitic MUTOs, they fight Kong until he kills the male one which made the female one run away. They continue to explore until Kong led them to the ruins of the kingdom of Agartha. They pass through kingdom and settled on a nearby tribal-like site which they deduced to be the Kong species' ancient habitat. Kong looks around and picks up the Axe of the King Kong. He then quickly goes in pursuit of Godzilla, with Monarch/AME following him.

On Outpost 61, Infant Island, Monarch has monitored the pupa of Mothra, which is nearing adult stage.

The Monarch/AME team pass through the Ginnungagap rainforest, a massive rainforest with various MUTOs living in them. After a while, Kong finally spots Godzilla resting in his Temple of Godzilla, Kong calls out to Godzilla and **they battle once again**, fighting until they arrive on the ruins of Agartha. The fight then led to both of them falling into a giant hole and at one point, they reach the center of gravity field and floats while fighting, the fight ends with Godzilla abandoning Kong and Kong is left alone in the inner Earth, Kong then decides to return to the Hollow Earth and utterly destroy Godzilla's temple. A little while ago as Kong and Godzilla fight, the Anderson-Maeda crew decided to stay for a bit to examine the abundant Hollow Earth mineral which they call aether, they talk about their plans of mining them until they are attacked by rock critters and ahools, and are forced to return to the HEAVs and reunite with Kong. Godzilla then returns to his temple, finding out it has been destroyed by Kong, Godzilla roars and goes to hunt Kong.

### Chapter 3: Downtown Los Angeles

They finally reach the surface on Mojave Desert and fly back to the Anderson-Maeda base while Kong attracts attention, being seen for the first time, carrying an axe, no less. On Infant Island, the Monarch crew is watching Kong on the news when they're all called to witness Mothra emerging from her cocoon.

On Redondo Beach, Godzilla emerges from the ocean and goes on his way to kill Kong. They converge on Downtown Los Angeles where **they duke it out** for the third time to finally finish each other off. The fight ends with Kong defeated, and as Godzilla prepares to finish him off, Mothra suddenly appears and protects Kong. Godzilla obeys and leaves Kong behind, and the scene ends with Godzilla walking beside Mothra. On the ground, Monarch surprises Kong with Jia, who survived the Skull Island attack.

The epilogue shows that Monarch has begun building a base in the Hollow Earth and Kong accompanies them, roaring out into the open.

In a mid-credits scene, the Monarch team revisit the ruins of Agartha, they talk about the possibility of there being an alpha like Godzilla, ruling the Hollow Earth. They then discover a wall painting of kong giants and gojiras, as well as celestial moths joining forces to fight an unknown MUTO.

## Cast

* Ken Watanabe as Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
* Sally Hawkins as Dr. Vivienne Graham
* Joe Morton as Dr. Houston Brooks
* Rebecca Hall as Dr. Ilene Andrews
* Alexander Skarsgård as Nathan Lind
* Kaylee Hottle as Jia
* Peter Shinkoda as Kazuki Maeda
* Kyle Chandler as Mark Russell
* Jessica Henwick as Jane Whitehall
* Eiza González as Alina Marquez
* Tamlyn Tomita as Reiko Hirano and Kaede Hirano

## Appearances

### Malevolent MUTO(s)

King Ghidorah (cameo)Titan skullcrawler †Winged MUTO (Hollow Earth) †Six-legged MUTO (Hollow Earth)
* The Hollow Earth Alpha is foreshadowed at the end of the film.

### Locations

* Earth
	+ Bermuda
		- Outpost 54
	+ Hollow Earth
		- Jotunheimra
			* Agartha
			* Argonym rainforest
				+ Hollow Earth Research Center (construction)
			* Atomic lakes
			* Ginnungagap rainforest
			* Kongs' lair
			* Temple of Godzilla
	+ Indonesia
		- Infant Island
			* Temple of the Moth
				+ Outpost 61
	+ Japan
	+ Skull Island
		- Outpost 33
	+ United States of America
		- Los Angeles

### Events

* MUTO Revelation (mentioned)
* Great MUTO War (mentioned)
* King Ghidorah Uprising
* **Godzilla/Kong Crisis**

### Species

* Anunnaki (hieroglyphs)
* Humans
* MUTOs
	+ Celestial moth
	+ Gojira
	+ *Giganteroplis kong*
	+ Parasitic MUTOs
	+ Tepeyollotls
	+ Titanfrogs
* Skull Island creatures
	+ Ahools
	+ Bunyips
	+ Jackalopes
	+ Mokele-mbembes
	+ Skullcrawlers
* Hollow Earth creatures
	+ Ahools
	+ Dazzling deers
	+ Dinosaurs
		- *Apatosaurus*
		- *Pterodactylus*
	+ Holy tigers
	+ Nine-tailed foxes
	+ Rock critters

### Items

* Aether
* Axe of the King Kong
* Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles
* ORCA
* Stargate

### Organizations

* Anderson-Maeda Enterprises
* Monarch

## Production

In October 2015, it was confirmed that Godzilla and Kong would face each other in *Godzilla vs. Kong*. In May 2017, Colin Trevorrow signed on as the director.

Filming began on June 2018 and concluded on January 2019.

## Trivia

* The film is part of both of the Godzilla and Kong series, meaning it is both Godzilla III and Kong 2.
* 4 years after *Godzilla II*.
* Unlike the real film, Skull Island is still habitable.

## References and notes

1. ↑ Dazzling deers, holy tigers, ahools, etc
2. ↑ One crew stayed while another crew is sent to follow Godzilla and Kong so they know where to find them.
3. ↑ In a foreshadowing style, the painting of the alpha is obscured by cracks and erosion, while the painting of the MUTOs fighting him are clear.