The Next MonsterVerse Movie Has Officially Been Announced
(This is the logo for Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.)
Didn’t expect to be talking about the MonsterVerse so soon after reposting my Godzilla vs. Kong review a few weeks ago, but then Warner Bros. had to go and drop this trailer out on us. This is pretty old news by now, people all over the Internet π have already made their videos and written their social media posts, blog posts, and articles talking about this trailer and this title reveal and what means, and I’m pretty late to the party, but better late than never. 6 days ago, Warner Bros. put out an announcement trailer for the next major installment of the MonsterVerse, announcing that it’s officially in production (meaning principal photography has already begun), as well as revealing the title and the release date. It’s going to be called Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, we’re going supernova this time. It’s going to be released in theaters on March 26, 2027.
March is like the sweet spot for MonsterVerse, it’s a way for the movie to avoid competition with other major blockbusters, which it would face if it released in the summer ☀️ or even in the winter ❄️ since December is also a month used by studios to release major blockbusters, usually by Disney and of the Star Wars or Avatar variety. Luckily, Disney has no Star Wars movies scheduled for December of that year, as every Star Wars film project they’ve tried making after The Rise of Skywalker (or in between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, except for Solo) has imploded and failed to get off the ground. And the next Avatar movie after Fire and Ash π₯ won’t come out until 2029, even if it hits its intended release date and doesn’t get delayed like The Way of Water π¦ did, or James Cameron doesn’t keel over and die. So, spring π is a good time to release the movie, either March or April, those are the best times to release a MonsterVerse movie. But, they are releasing a Marvel movie in 2026 called Avengers: Doomsday, the one where Robert Downey Jr. will return to the MCU, not as Iron Man/Tony Stark but as Victor von Doom, if his name will even still be Victor von Doom, if that version of the character he’ll he playing is even going to be Latverian.
My theory is that he’s going to be a Tony Stark variant who’s evil and becomes Doctor Doom and creates a suit that vaguely resembles Doctor Doom’s suit. That’s how they’ll justify him being played by the same actor as Tony Stark/Iron Man, and how they’ll explain why he doesn’t have an Eastern European accent or have any of the trappings people associate with the Doctor Doom of the comics, cartoons, and video games, since I doubt they’ll make him Latverian. No one wants to hear Robert Downey Jr. try to do an Eastern European accent, we’d either all die from the cringe, or we’d all just meme it to death. Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom would get the ol’ Jared Leto Morbius treatment. They’ll basically take Doctor Doom, and make him less Eastern European-y. Just like every other live action film version of Doctor Doom we’ve gotten so far.
He is so wrong for the part, I’m sorry, I can’t get over it. It’s probably the worst miscasting for the character Doctor Doom, and I was against it the moment it was announced, and yet comic book movie nerds seem to be mostly fine with it just because it’s Robert Downey Jr. and they like him as Iron Man. They can separate him from that character even though he’ll have to play a completely different character from Tony Stark/Iron Man if he is to play a somewhat comic book accurate Doctor Doom, which I don’t think this version will be. Not even in the MCU will Doctor Doom fans get their comic book accurate Latverian version of Doctor Doom that they’ve craved for so long. Them casting Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom just reeks of desperation.
They just haphazardly threw this movie together at the last minute after they fired Jonathan Major and all their plans involving Kang the Conqueror and the multiverse imploded. Avengers: Kang Dynasty was scrapped, and they just decided to do Doctor Doom instead because hey, he’s a popular villain, right? They’re introducing the Fantastic Four this year in The Fantastic Four: Next Steps, and are introducing Galactus as the first major villain they face. So, why not bring in Doctor Doom? It’d feel incomplete if you had the Fantastic Four but no Doctor Doom. He’s their main adversary after all. Just as Thanos was the main adversary of the Guardians of the Galaxy, even if we didn’t see them fight Thanos in a Guardians of the Galaxy movie but rather in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. I imagine we will see the Fantastic Four fight Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday. It’s so obvious, they’d be stupid not to do it, but then again, this is post-Endgame Marvel Studios we’re talking about here π.
And while we’re at it, let’s cast Robert Downey Jr. in the role because hey, he’s a popular actor right? He’s the foundation on which this whole franchise was built on, he’s the one actor that everyone in the fanbase almost universally loves, and his departure from the franchise left a huge void that they’ve struggled to fill even to this day. Even if it makes absolutely no sense for him to be in that role and it breaks the last bit of consistency that these movies had. Having actors only play one character (as well as all that character’s multiverse variants, or most of them anyway) so that you can sell the illusion of this being in a shared universe. That’s all gone now, and Marvel has stopped caring. The fact that they even considered casting him in this role and the fact that they went through it shows that.
This is them just throwing anything at the wall and seeing what sticks. They are in desperate need of a hit after their last few movies have either outright flopped or seriously underperformed below their expectations or desires. And can be a more sure fire hit than an Avengers movie where Doctor Doom is the main bad guy and he’s played by Robert Downey Jr.? This way they can spend a gazillion dollars π΅ on the movie and not lost a ton of money π΅. They’ll need all that money π΅ to buy for all the actors that are going to be in, and some of them demand high salaries to be in these movies. Half of the movie’s budget will just be devoted to paying for all the actors, and the other half will be spent on paying for the visual effects and everything else necessary to make an Avengers movie an Avengers movie. I already had very little interest in watching the next Avengers movie regardless of whatever it was called or whatever it was about, but now that it’s going to be about Doctor Doom and Robert Downey Jr. is going to play him, I have even less interest now.
I’ve already checked out of the MCU completely at this point so skipping this one won’t be a problem for me. I mean, I skipped Thunderbolts* and that movie has gotten some good reviews so far and actually made money π΅. It has grossed $240 million π΅ worldwide so far, at the time of me writing this, against a budget of $180 million π΅. So yeah, it’s doing better than Captain America: Brave New World πΊπΈ that’s for sure. If I can skip that, then skipping Avengers: Doomsday will pretty much be nothing. And I have a sneaking suspicion I won’t be missing out on much. I don’t care if there’s all this hype and buzz around, I don’t care if it has every actor in the universe in it, and I don’t care if people love it and praise it and call it the best thing since sliced bread π, and meme it to death. I won’t budge.
But, the fact that it’s coming out next year in 2026, is probably another reason why Godzilla x Kong: Supernova is coming out in 2027. They want to avoid competition with that movie because any movie that comes out that year, in 2026, will have their momentum sucked out of them by Avengers: Doomsday. They don’t want that to happen to them, so they’re pushing the movie back to 2027. Even though it made $572.3 million π΅ worldwide and did become the most successful film in the MonsterVerse thus far, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire did have some of its momentum sucked out of it by the release of Godzilla Minus One the previous year, in 2023 (just four months prior), as every critic who hated the movie unfavorably compared it to Godzilla Minus One, essentially asking, “Why wasn’t this more like Godzilla Minus One?” or saying, “Minus One makes this movie look like dumb kiddy movie by comparison. Minus One is a real mature movie for adults whereas this movie is just for kids and teens.” I hate that line of thinking and those types of comparisons and criticisms, if you couldn’t already tell π.
Critics don’t get Godzilla, and can’t seem to grasp the concept of two different versions of Godzilla doing their own things and just letting them be their own thing instead expecting every Godzilla thing to be exactly the same, to be exactly like Godzilla Minus One. Either that, or they don’t truly respect Godzilla and don’t respect the franchise and what it’s all about unless it fits into their previous notions of what a movie like this should be, and what it has to be to be considered a good movie. So, Warner Bros. and Legendary don’t want that to happen again, so they’re releasing Supernova in 2027 just to be safe. Unless the sequel to Minus One is coming out that same year, then they’re pretty much facing the same problem. And yes, Minus One is getting a sequel. It was announced practically after the first one was released and became a huge hit, both in Japan π―π΅ and around the world. Toho struck oil π’️ and they don’t want to stop that oil well π’️ from gushing π€.
Minus One gets to have a sequel while Shin Godzilla doesn’t, even if Shin Godzilla warrants a sequel more than Minus One arguably does, given how it ends. I still want to know what the deal with those humanoid Godzilla creatures crawling out of Godzilla’s tail was. Ah well, at least we kind of got a sequel to Shin Godzilla in the form of that crossover ride with Evangelion at Universal Studios Japan π―π΅ in Osaka, Godzilla vs. Evangelion: The Real 4-D. We even got to see that version of Godzilla fight another monster, as well as three Evas, Eva Unit 00, Eva Unit 01, and Eva Unit 02, the same ones piloted by the three main human characters of the Evangelion franchise, Rei, Shinji, and Asuka respectively. We got Shin King Ghidorah, or Shin Ghidorah I guess you could call him. I never thought we would ever see Shin Godzilla fight any other monsters. He just didn’t seem to be the type to do that. I wonder if the Godzilla from Minus One will fight another monster in the sequel or he’ll be on his own again.
Regardless, it seems like he maybe stomping around in Southeast Asia in the sequel, if that promotional video they put out on the official Godzilla YouTube channel on the same day as the announcement trailer for Godzilla x Kong: Supernova featuring the Minus One Godzilla in various locations in Southeast Asia is anything to go by. Which, it might not be. It might just a fun little promotional video or anniversary video showing Godzilla’s appeal in Southeast Asia. The title of the video was “70 Years of Godzilla: A New Roar in Southeast Asia” after all, though they did actually show a new roar for Godzilla in the Minus One sequel in that video as well as a new color for his atomic breath ☢️: green. Specifically, lime green ππ© or XBox green. Well, that’s one way to differentiate the Japanese Godzilla π―π΅ from the American Godzilla πΊπΈ, just give him a different color atomic breath ☢️.
I mean, the MonsterVerse Godzilla now has a pink atomic breath ☢️, since he’s Evolved Godzilla now. Yes, that’s really what Godzilla’s new form in The New Empire is called after he absorbs all the radiation ☢️ from that one spot in the Arctic after he kills Tiamat, except not really since as the 2025 graphic novel, MonsterVerse Declassified revealed, Tiamat is not actually dead. She actually survived her encounter with Godzilla in The New Empire, and her body is so recounting itself with Monarch keeping her her remains in a secure facility (Outpost 237), monitoring her recovery. She is one durable ass monster π€― if she can survive getting ripped apart by Godzilla at his full strength (after absorbing the radiation ☢️ from a nuclear power plant ☢️ in France π«π·). It seems like there’s no real way to kill her since she can just regenerate her whole entire body.
(These are pictures of Tiamat and her daughter Lahamu as they appeared in both MonsterVerse Declassified and Kong: Survival Instinct respectively.)
She’s almost like an updated version of Reptilicus minus the wings or acid spit. She also an offspring too, a daughter named Lahamu, which is the actual name of the daughter of the goddess Tiamat from Ancient Mesopotamian religion. Glad they were accurate there with the naming. Her only real appearance so far has been in that shitty Kong game from 2024 called Kong: Survival Instinct where Kong just acts completely out of character, attacking a city unprovoked and chasing after this one guy ♂︎ (the player character) for seemingly no real reason at all. Between that and Skull Island: Rise of Kong from the previous year, 2023, Kong sure can’t catch a break when it comes to video games π€¦♂️. Here’s hoping Lahamu appears in something much better. so why not give the Minus One Godzilla green atomic breath ☢️? A lot of people commented on how Godzilla’s breath in this video was the same color as Godzilla Jr.’s breath in Godzilla: The Series, the animated series based of the 1998 Godzilla movie, and yeah it is. Takashi Yamazaki is a fan of that movie and probably a fan of the series after all.
I do like that they decided to actually give him a new roar this time instead of recycling all of the old roars from the previous movies, that was starting to annoy me about the Japanese Godzilla films π―π΅ of the Reiwa era π. He even kind of has a slightly different design in this video, meaning that he’ll probably look like that in the sequel as well. It’s mostly the same as the one in Minus One except it’s a bit bulkier, a bit more muscular, spikier and jagged, and the dorsal plates are also sharper and more jagged looking. Looking more similar to the dorsal plates of the Millennium era Godzilla (the ones from Godzilla 2000, Godzilla vs. Megaguirus, Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla, and Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.) than the ones of the Heisei era Godzilla like in Minus One. But, if there is to be a sequel to Minus One, what’s it even going to be called? Godzilla Minus Two? Godzilla Plus One? Godzilla Minus One Point Two? They really backed themselves into a corner by calling it Godzilla Minus One, didn’t they?
The reveal of the title did confirm at least a couple of things. One, it did confirm that this will be another Godzilla and Kong team-up. I was wondering that for a while after Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, if the next one afterwards was going to be a solo Godzilla movie or a solo Kong movie, but no, it’s another team-up movie. It confirms my suspicion that Warner Bros. and Legendary are doing Godzilla and Kong movies now where they’re together because they’ve calculated that these movie make more money π΅ when both characters are in the same movie. I mean, the MonsterVerse was doing okay box office wise when it was just Godzilla and Kong solo movies, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) was the only one that could actually be considered a bomb π£, but once they put them together, that’s when they really started making money π΅ π€. Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire are the two highest grossing MonsterVerse movies so far for a reason, it’s because they have Godzilla and King Kong in them, though King Kong just goes by Kong in this franchise.
Even now after he’s the leader of a whole tribe of apes and Adam Wingard said in the behind-the-scenes material for The New Empire that Kong had officially earned the title of King Kong. They kept calling him Kong because he wasn’t really a king yet, but now he is. But, apparently because he’s still going to just be called Kong in this movie. I guess it’s a legal thing or it’s differentiate it from the actual King Kong movies that are retellings and reinterpretations of that same story from the 1933 movie. I’m assuming because that Kong animated series from the early 2000s was also just called Kong, and Kong himself is never referred to as King Kong in that whole series even though it’s supposed to be a sequel to the 1933 movie. But, even if he’s going to be paired up Godzilla up again, I am glad that Kong is finally getting the chance to be in movies with stories that aren’t just retellings or reinterpretations of that same 1933 King Kong story.
He gets to participate in more unique stories where he gets fight other monsters other than the bog standard dinosaur or Skullcrawler, though Skullcrawlers are far from being standard. We haven’t even seen any of them since Godzilla vs. Kong, though I assume they’re in that Skull Island series on Netflix, and will maybe even appear in Season 2 of Monarch since they promised that will feature more Kong than Season 1 did. But, Kong did fight a giant snake π in a movie once, in the 1976 King Kong movie, and that’s a pretty standard monster, not too out of the ordinary. And he gets to live by the end, and gets to have a happy ending. Kong now has the family he has always wanted since Kong: Skull Island.
This is one way that the MonsterVerse is different from the MCU, instead doing a bunch of solo movies after the big team up movie, they’re only doing team up movies from here on out. This would be like if after the first Avengers movie, they only did Avengers movies and didn’t do anymore solo movies for any other Marvel character or Marvel team. The DCEU almost went in this direction under Zack Snyder, when he was still the main guiding force of the franchise, since after Zack Snyder’s Justice League, they were just going to do Justice League movies from then on out. Since that whole Darkseid/Knightmare storyline where Darkseid corrupts Superman using the Anti-Life Equation and then uses him to take over the Earth π and the other Justice League members (mostly just Flash ⚡️) have to travel back in time to prevent that from happening was probably not going to just be contained to just one movie. It was going to be a multi-film arc, just like Thanos collecting all the Infinity Stones, putting them into the Infinity Gauntlet, and then snapping π«° half of all life in the universe out of existence, and the Avengers having to go back in time to prevent that from happening was.
The reveal of the new title did also confirm that Godzilla and Kong will be facing some kind of space monster. But, that just begs the question, if this next movie is going to involve a threat from space, how will Kong fit into all this? He lives in Hollow Earth π now, and he leads a tribe of apes (who are of his same species). For all intents and purposes, his story arc is complete. So, what will make him come back up to the surface to help Godzilla face this threat from outer space? Unless this threat from space also threatens Hollow Earth π, meaning it will affect Kong’s home as well as Godzilla’s. So, Kong will have to act, and get involved in whatever’s going on back on the surface to protect his home. Regardless of whether or not, Godzilla needs or wants his help. Maybe, he’ll even bring in his ape tribe and they’ll participate in the final battle against whatever monster (or monsters) Godzilla and Kong are teaming up to fight in this movie.
Of course, that does also beg the question, how much help will Kong be to Godzilla. If it is indeed going to be another space monster (King Ghidorah was the first space monster introduced in the MonsterVerse), I don’t know how much help Kong will be to Godzilla since it seems like it would be a threat way beyond Kong’s power level and something that Godzilla could probably face all by himself. The reason why The New Empire works so well is that it was more of a Kong story, and he needed Godzilla’s help to defeat both Skar King and Shimo since there was no way that he could take them both by himself. But since this next movie will be more of Godzilla centric story, I just don’t see a reason why Godzilla would need Kong’s help if the threat is from outer space, unless it was a case of like I said where Kong pops back up to the surface to assist Godzilla in facing this new monster (or monsters) without Godzilla ever asking for his help because it’s attacking Hollow Earth π too, and he just wants to protect his home and his ape tribe. They’re his family after all.
And Godzilla is just questioning why Kong is ever there, believing that this is way beyond Kong’s level and isn’t really any concern since it is so far removed from the affairs of Hollow Earth π, and he won’t be much help, and that he could take this new monster without his help, until Kong shows him and that it’s affecting Hollow Earth π as well, and if anyone or anything threatens Hollow Earth π, he will respond, regardless of whether Godzilla wants him there or not. Kong is the king of his domain, and he bows to no one, not even the self-proclaimed king of the monsters. Yeah, yeah, I know, the other Titans did technically crown Godzilla the king of the monsters by literally bowing to him and submitting to him, but Godzilla didn’t have to accept that title, he just took it because it inflated and stroked his ego, which was at an all time high after defeating King Ghidorah, his long time rival from outer space.
And yes, this will be a more Godzilla centric story, this will be more of a Godzilla movie than a Kong movie. They’ve already confirmed and promised it to the Godzilla fans who were upset that the last two MonsterVerse movies focused more on Kong rather than Godzilla, and were more Kong movies with Godzilla in them rather than a movie where Godzilla and Kong have more equal amounts of screen time and equal amounts of narrative focus. So, Legendary is doing this movie to appease them and make them feel more included. I wouldn’t have really cared if it was another Kong centric story since I like the MonsterVerse version of Kong and I was accepting the idea of him being the main character of the MonsterVerse rather than Godzilla.
But, whatever, Godzilla fans complained and were upset and Legendary had to shift their plans a bit (probably) just to shut them up. Bunch of spoiled brats π. I’m a Godzilla fan too, but man, these other Godzilla fans who complained about these last couple of movies not having enough Godzilla or not focusing on Godzilla and focusing too much on Kong are a bunch of babies. It’s usually upsetting to me when whiny fans (of any fandom) are rewarded like this, but in this case, I’m fine with them whining (kind of) because what we’ll get from their whining will still be good and still be entertaining. I like Godzilla and Kong, so it doesn’t matter to me which of them is the main focus and which of them is the main character, just so long as the movie is entertaining and good.
Adam Wingard may not be returning to direct this time around, but even if he was, he would’ve still focused the movie more on Godzilla than on Kong. Which is why I said “probably” when I said Legendary changed their plans because judging by what Wingard said, it was always their plan to make this more of a Godzilla story than a Kong story, at least after making The New Empire. Speaking of which, since this movie will also be called Godzilla x Kong, the way I differentiate the two movies is that I’ll be referring to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire as just The New Empire whenever I don’t need to write the full title, and I’ll be referring to this one usually as Supernova. I’ll probably have to put the year in parentheses, like this, Supernova (2027) because there’s a 2000 movie also called Supernova, just Supernova, no other title, with James Spader and Angela Bassett as well as Robert Forester. So, whenever I don’t write the full title, Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, I’ll be referring to the movie as Supernova (2027) and that other Supernova with Angela Bassett as Supernova (2000) if I ever decide to review that movie later on down the line.
I already mentioned that Adam Wingard isn’t directing this movie, but I probably should mention why. It’s because he got caught up in another gig and didn’t have any time to commit to this project. He’s working on a horror film for A24 called Onslaught. Have no idea what it’s about, but he’s directing it. So, to fill in for him, they got a guy ♂︎ named Grant Sputore to direct Supernova (2027). I already talked at length about Grant Sputore and his career up until this point in the foreword of my Godzilla vs. Kong review (it was a late addition I made recently), so I won’t go too much detail about him. The gist is that he’s an Australian director π¦πΊ who’s mostly just made smaller independent movies in his native Australia π¦πΊ.
In fact, before this, he had only directed two other movies and only one was a feature film. That one was I Am Mother, a sci-fi thriller on Netflix (it was a Netflix exclusive) that featured Rose Byrne and Hilary Swank as well as a lesser known Danish actress π©π° named Clara Rugaard, who is the actual main lead. Hilary Swank and Rose Byrne are both in supporting roles, but they’re the two biggest name actresses in the entire movie. It was easily the thing that Grant Sputore was best known for before being hired to direct Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. This is first big studio movie, the biggest movie he’s directed in his entire career thus far. Which isn’t really saying much since this is only his third directorial effort.
He’s spent the majority of his career producing or executively producing. Like, he’s got a movie coming out next year, in 2026, that he produced called We Bury the Dead, which is a post-apocalyptic horror thriller that stars Daisy Ridley (the lady ♀︎ who played Rey in Star Wars), and is about this woman ♀︎ who joins a “body retrieval unit” to find her dead husband, only to find that the bodies that they’re recovering and burying are showing signs of life. Meaning that this is probably going to some type of zombie movie π§♂️, but it won’t your typical zombie movie π§♂️. Maybe these zombies π§♂️ are bit more sentient and conscious, or maybe they can use tools and weapons, or they maybe can shapeshift and change their bodies in grotesque ways. I don’t know, but I know that these probably won’t be typical zombies π§♂️ (either the slowly shuffling ones or the fast running ones), and will probably be something a bit more along the lines of Deadites or those re-animated corpses in Re-Animator. Which is why they’re being so coy about not calling them zombies π§♂️ and just saying that the “corpses are showing signs of life.”
If it was just a straight up zombie movie π§♂️, why wouldn’t they just say it’s about zombies π§♂️? Unless it’s one of those zombie movies π§♂️ where they don’t actually call them zombies π§♂️. Like, how in The Walking Dead π§♂️, they call them “walkers” instead of zombies π§♂️. I haven’t seen any of Grant Sputore’s work as a director or as a producer/executive producer, so I don’t know for sure if he’s any good or if he’ll make a good movie. But, I’m sure it’ll still turn out well. I mean, Adam Wingard directed the live action Death Note movie on Netflix before being hired to direct Godzilla vs. Kong and that still turned out good. So did The New Empire. So, even if Grant Sputore’s work outside of the MonsterVerse isn’t good, his work inside will be or at least be entertaining.
When people first saw the title, Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, their immediate thought was SpaceGodzilla, especially since as many in the comments of the trailer pointed out, Godzilla’s roar at the end of it doesn’t sound the same as it usually does, meaning that may not be Godzilla, but an evil clone of him, and the only monster that really fits the bill is SpaceGodzilla. He’s the only space monster that comes to mind besides King Ghidorah and Gigan. Unless it’s maybe Orga, but Orga in Godzilla 2000 had different sounding roar compared to Godzilla, unless they made it so that his roar sounds more like Godzilla to really ram the point home that he’s supposed to be a Godzilla clone, an attempt by an alien life form π½ to give itself a physical form (since it was just a living spaceship πΈ before) using Godzilla’s DNA π§¬.
(This is a picture of SpaceGodzilla as he appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.)
But, out of these monsters I mentioned, it’s probably SpaceGodzilla. He’s the obvious choice, he’s a highly requested character even if the fans requesting never thought that he’d ever be in the MonsterVerse, they’ve already done Mechagodzilla, and it makes the most sense with what the title is, the color scheme they seem to be going on the logo, as well as that roar at the end of the trailer. Unless they have Gigan appear in the movie as a secondary antagonist alongside SpaceGodzilla since the previous Godzilla x Kong movie had two monster antagonists. It’d be ironic if they paired SpaceGodzilla up with Gigan, considering that they used a modified version of Gigan’s roar for SpaceGodzilla. Or maybe they’ll do a bunch of original monsters to go alongside the additional Toho monster they’ve included since these Toho monsters are pretty expensive to get, and Toho is very stingy about lending them out to Legendary, even though Legendary has more than proven itself that they’re more than respectful of the characters and won’t make any sweeping changes that Toho doesn’t approve of.
I know I said, Warner Bros. and Legendary, but really, Legendary’s the one calling all the shots. They have full creative control over the MonsterVerse and exercise it whenever they please. Warner Bros. is just a distributor in this case, they have no real say in the making of these movies, and don’t give much input other than maybe suggest marketing strategies or suggest Legendary do more of what they’re doing it maximize profits, even if they themselves won’t see the majority of it. But, they get a cut of it since they’re the distributor. And I’m glad because if current day Warner Bros. was in charge of this franchise, they’d completely mismanage and micromanage it and mess it up beyond recognition. Just like they did to the DCEU, and probably will do to the DCU, even if it seems they’ve afforded James Gunn a lot more creative freedom and control than what they afforded Zack Snyder or Geoff Johns.
So, as far as I’ve concerned, the MonsterVerse is in good hands under Legendary, and not under the direct control of Warner Bros.. If it was under the direct control of Warner Bros., it’d be a disaster. They’re a terrible company now, and they cannot be trusted to make a good movie anymore. So, it’s better for them to be a distributor than it is direct control over your franchise. You’ll asking for trouble if you let Warner Bros. have more control and have more say in the goings on of your franchise. So yeah, the MonsterVerse is a purely Legendary project and Warner Bros. is just the distributor. They promote the movies and release them, that’s it. You couldn’t have asked for a better arrangement than this if you tried.
(Here are pictures of the new monsters introduced in Godzilla: Unleashed, Krystalak and Obsidius, as well as fan art of these two characters done by Markdotea and Gugenheim98 respectively.)
Maybe it’ll sort of like Godzilla: Unleashed (the third and final game in the Atari Pipeworks Godzilla trilogy), where SpaceGodzilla’s mere presence throws the Earth π’s climate completely out of wack and causes several natural disasters around the globes, creating several new monsters called Mutants. Okay, well not all the monsters designated “Mutants” were original, most of them were Toho monsters like Biollante, Megaguirus, Battra, Titanosaurus, and Destoroyah. The only two original monsters categorized as “Mutants” in that game were Obsidius and Krystalak, both being created from SpaceGodzilla’s crystals, and both being minions of SpaceGodzilla as are the other monsters in the Mutant faction. Even SpaceGodzilla himself is categorized as a “Mutant” in that game.
(These are more pictures of SpaceGodzilla as he appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.)
I mean, I really do hope that it is SpaceGodzilla and all the people speculating that it’s SpaceGodzilla are proven right, just like how all the people who speculated that Mechagodzilla would be in Godzilla vs. Kong were proven right. I would love to see SpaceGodzilla again. I just never thought they’d ever do him because of how difficult Toho is with letting them use certain characters, and because they were trying to this universe seem more grounded and realistic, at least at first. That ship has sailed since they’ve pretty much given up on trying to make these movies feel grounded and realistic, and are fully embracing the campiness of it all. So now, there is a place for SpaceGodzilla in the MonsterVerse now, I could see him fitting in since it’s gone the way of the ShΕwa series, going from being dark and gritty to being lighthearted and fun.
It would make up for not having Godzilla’s Super form from the Super Nintendo game, Super Godzilla, which is what SpaceGodzilla’s design was inspired by. I mean, since there’s Evolved Godzilla, there’s no need for a Super Godzilla form. I would also like to see a modern updated version of SpaceGodzilla since he hasn’t appeared in another movie since his first appearance in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. He’s appeared in the video games and the comics, and the other ancillary material, but not in the films. So far, Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla is his one and only film appearance. So, if he is in Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, it’ll be his second ever film appearance. I’d be really curious to see how they would make him look considering how they designed Mechagodzilla. Maybe Shimo was just a test to see how they could design a kaiju with crystalline spikes.
(This is a picture of Biollante as she appeared in Godzilla vs. Biollante, as well as a picture of her S.H. MonsterArts figure showing her whole entire body.)
But, if SpaceGodzilla is in this movie, what’s the explanation for him going to be considering that there’s no Biollante in this universe? They had two working theories or hypotheses for SpaceGodzilla’s origin in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. The first one was that Biollante floated up into space after dissipating into glowing spores, and because she’s also a Godzilla clone (a hybrid created by a geneticist 𧬠using Godzilla’s cells and the cells of a rose πΉ that contained the soul of his dead daughter), she carried the Godzilla cells, or G-cells, into space. The second one was that during her battle with Godzilla in Godzilla & Mothra: The Battle for Earth π AKA Godzilla vs. Mothra, Mothra got a bunch of Godzilla’s cells on her and she ended up carrying them into space when she went up there to stop an asteroid ☄️ from hitting from the Earth π at the end of the movie. The asteroid ☄️ was set to hit the Earth π in 1999, and she flew up there into space to stop it before it ever reached Earth π.
But, however they got there, those Godzilla cells ended up in a black hole and then came out of a white hole where they then absorbed a bunch of crystalline organisms (silicon based life) and the energy (and radiation ☢️) from an exploding star, and that created SpaceGodzilla. But, if there’s no Biollante and Mothra never went up into a space to destroy an asteroid ☄️ (or at least redirect it so that Earth π was no longer in its trajectory), how would Godzilla’s DNA 𧬠end up in space to create SpaceGodzilla? They stayed pretty faithful to King Ghidorah’s origin in the older movies (mostly from the ShΕwa era), so what about SpaceGodzilla? I know there are plenty of people, including me; who would’ve paid top dollar π΅ to have Biollante appear in the MonsterVerse.
(This is fan art showing the MonsterVerse Godzilla as he appeared in the 2014 movie going against what the artist interprets Biollante would look like in the MonsterVerse. It was done by an artist on DeviantART called InkVeil-Matter, who did many artworks inspired by the 2014 Godzilla movie. Before the MonsterVerse really became the MonsterVerse, and before anyone really knew what the MonsterVerse was going to be.)
There isn’t even a Dimension Tide in this universe, the black hole weapon from Godzilla vs. Megaguirus. They could’ve introduced the Dimension Tide (or at least something like it) and that would’ve been a great way to set up SpaceGodzilla since you could have Godzilla be sucked up into a black hole created by the Dimension Tide and then escape, or just narrowly avoid being sucked up but either way, some of his cells still end up inside the black hole and then reemerge in a white hole somewhere else in the universe, having absorbed the radiation ☢️ from the black hole and white hole as well as some crystalline organisms, as SpaceGodzilla. I mean, they’ve already introduced the Oxygen Destroyer, so why not bring in the Dimension Tide π€·♂️? You’ve already given up on trying to be realistic and embraced the ridiculousness of it all, what’s an orbital black hole weapon?
Maybe they’ll have SpaceGodzilla be created by a supernova (hence the title), like somehow Godzilla’s cells end up in space and are exposed to a supernova, which then cause them to grow and mutate into a new monster: SpaceGodzilla. But, how would they explain the crystals? Maybe they’d still have the crystalline organism thing, like the Godzilla cell collide and fuse together with the crystalline organisms and then they’re exposed to the supernova and turn into SpaceGodzilla. Maybe if they hadn’t killed off King Ghidorah, or at least destroyed his body beyond repair, and just had him fly off into space after being defeated like he did in the ShΕwa era movies, they’ve could had him carry Godzilla’s cells into space and then cause them to fall into a black hole and then come out of a white hole where they then absorb crystalline organisms as well as the energy and radiation ☢️ from the black hole and white hole to become SpaceGodzilla. You’d basically have a pretty faithful interpretation of SpaceGodzilla’s origin from the Heisei series (or at least one of his proposed origins), only you’re swapping out Mothra with King Ghidorah.
Then you could have King Ghidorah team up with SpaceGodzilla and return to Earth π to defeat Godzilla, and get revenge on him for defeating him the last time. You even throw Gigan in there as well since he’s always joining a posse, and is usually associated with King Ghidorah, usually being controlled by an alien race π½ along with King Ghidorah. But alas, that’s not the direction they went in, and we missed out on a perfectly good explanation for SpaceGodzilla in this movie, if he is indeed SpaceGodzilla. Maybe, they’ll just have SpaceGodzilla be created by aliens π½ who somehow got their hands on Godzilla’s DNA 𧬠like in Godzilla: Save the Earth π (the second game in the Atari Pipeworks trilogy). Or they’ll have him be created in humans experimenting with Godzilla’s DNA 𧬠out in space, kind of like the humans experimenting with that gene-altering pathogen π¦ 𧬠in Rampage (2018). No actual supernova involved. It’s not too far out of the realm of possibility. The New Empire didn’t involve an actual empire (unless the title was referring to Skar King’s tribe of apes before Kong took over, or maybe it’s referring to his plan to conquer the surface world and turn that into his new empire, and was really just a cool sounding title that didn’t mean a whole lot. Maybe they just called this movie, Supernova, just to let us know that it involves something tenuously involves space because supernova’s a space word. It’s a vaguely sci-fi sounding term, right?
(These are even more pictures of SpaceGodzilla as he appeared in Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla.)
Whatever they came up with, if it really is SpaceGodzilla, it’ll be cool too see what they’ll do now since they’ll have more advanced CGI and a bigger budget to work with than what the people who worked on Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla had to work with. I hope that the movie starts out in space, with a scene where we see a space station get destroyed by SpaceGodzilla. Kind of like the scene at the beginning of Rampage (2018) where we see a space station get destroyed by a giant mutated rat π that was created by the pathogen π¦ that they were experimenting with on the space station. Maybe, they could make this more of a straight up disaster movie and have SpaceGodzilla send a bunch of meteors ☄️ hurdling towards Earth π that end up altering the Earth π’s climate and topography when they crash. Again, kind of like in Godzilla: Unleashed.
(This is fan art showing what SpaceGodzilla will probably end up looking like in the MonsterVerse. I couldn’t find the artist who made this, so I apologize for not crediting you if you’re reading this.)
As for the cast, Dan Stevens is coming back as his character, Trapper from The New Empire. It seems that they’re following the same pattern that the other MonsterVerse movies have followed with the human cast where they’ll have at least one cast member from the previous movie return in the current movie, only to have them never appear again or even be mentioned after that. They did this Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), they did it with Godzilla vs. Kong, and they did it with Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. And they’re doing it again with Godzilla x Kong: Supernova. As for the new cast members, we’ve got a trio of actors that I’ve never heard of, Kaitlyn Dever, Jack O’Connell, and Alycia Debian-Carey, as well as a trio of actors that I do recognize, Matthew Modine, Delroy Lindo, and Sam Neill. Yes, that Sam Neill, Dr. Alan Grant himself.
It’ll be exciting to see Sam Neill in a Godzilla movie especially one that also has King Kong (and potentially SpaceGodzilla), considering that he was in the Jurassic franchise for many years, in the first one, Jurassic Park, they mention King Kong. Though, it would’ve been even better if they also had Jeff Goldblum in there as well considering that he was the one that actually said King Kong’s name. I also like Delroy Lindo, it’ll be cool to see in a movie like this. Between this and Sinners, the guy ♂︎’s making one helluva comeback. Just like Josh Hartnett, who’s another actor who would be cool to see in one of these movies, in either a lead role or a supporting role. I mean, every human character’s a supporting role since the real stars ⭐️ of these movies are the monsters, Godzilla and Kong, and every other Titan introduced so far. This is their story, not the humans’.
(This is fan art of SpaceGodzilla, done by the artist rabidhowl on Twitter π¦. This is my favorite piece of fan art of SpaceGodzilla, and probably my favorite redesign for SpaceGodzilla. He looks so badass in this. I wish that he would look like this in the MonsterVerse.)
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(This is the announcement trailer for Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.)
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(This is the anniversary video I was talking about in the section about the upcoming sequel to Godzilla Minus One. Titled, “70 Years of Godzilla: A New Roar in Southeast Asia.”)
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