Okay, so Gojira is pretty in pink, but don’t get it confused: He’s not auditioning to be the Pink Power Ranger. He’s powering up. Who would have thought Godzilla had access to a training mode like in a video game? ButGodzilla x Kong: The New Empire’sdirector, Adam Wingard, teases that the King of the Monster’s magenta-esque energy, which pulsates in the trailers, is the kaiju’s way of powering up to take on the Skar King. Wingard said (viaTwitter):
Godzilla is going to have to level up to take on this new threat. We get a little preview of what Godzilla has probably done in the past – the way that he can absorb things, and renew himself and bulk himself up.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Wingard added:
This is his version of training routine. I’m really big into Shaw Brothers martial arts. Those films are always about, ‘Here’s a big threat, and you have to do all these things to pump yourself up so that you can take on that threat.’
While the King of the Monsters has sported different looks over the years — a lot of that is due to the rubber suit or CGI associated with the character in each film — it’s never been suggested by his appearance that Godzilla has a “training routine.” Other than the version of Gojira that was overheating from the effects of continued exposure to his internal nuclear energy inGodzilla vs. Destoroyah(1995), the kaiju has looked very much the same over the last 70 years.
Teaming Up Against the Skar King
Director Adam Wingard refers toGojira and King Kong’s buddy-cop relationshipas dysfunctional. But the two kaijus must put their differences aside to face off against a dangerous new threat inGodzilla X Kong: the Skar King. And in an interview conducted last December, Wingard detailed finding a foe worthy of Kong and Godzilla’s attention. Wingard toldIGN:
“We wanted to come up with an antagonist that would both be a match for Kong and Godzilla, and that’s really hard to do. There’s a lot more to this character and how he’s a threat, and that’s going to be something that’s going to be fun to kind of dole out.”
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There are a few more roars yet to be heard.
And after the success of the kaijus teaming up to defeatthe Terminator-like MechagodzillainGodzilla vs. Kong, Wingard knew that the two movie monsters needed to headline another big-screen MonsterVerse adventure together. Wingard said in the same interview:
“As soon as the [last] movie came out, and the audiences started to see it, I was like, ‘You just can’t separate these two guys again.’ It’s too exciting having them in one movie. And now, the next one has to be about the continuation of that relationship, which is going to be the team-up.”
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empirehits theaters on March 29. And fans can whet their respecitve appetities for Gojira’s return to Legendary’s MonsterVerse by checking out MovieWeb’sFun Facts About Godzillavideo below:
