Disney unexpectedly announced this week they are developing a live-action TV show about King Kong for the Disney+ streaming service. The series will reportedly explore the origins of Kong (why is he so big anyway?) and be produced by James Wan’s production company. Stephany Folsom (Paper Girls) will be head writer.
Generally, shameless corporate promotions are the realm of Fortnite. You haven’t truly made it until your parent company shells out millions of dollars to have a skin of your main character shoved into a battle royale. So when we heard Godzilla and King Kong would soon make guest appearances in a video game, Fortnite is where we assumed they’d show up. Not this time…the movie monsters are headed to Call of Duty!
As monster mashups go, it doesn’t get bigger than Godzilla Vs. Kong. The pair are the most famous kaiju in the world, but apparently there’s only room at the top for one.
Godzilla vs. Kong is the fourth movie in the Monsterverse, by Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros.
Godzilla vs. King kong lost its chances to be a box office giant because of Covid 19. Dreams of this film having worldwide cinematic glory is all gone. This crossover Kaiju film is actually a remake of a 1962 Japanese movie King Kong vs Godzilla. That Kaiju battle is a classic but seeing it in modern special effects would be an interesting spectacle.
When you’re a kid, you learn that if you overfeed a fish, you wind up killing it. Clearly, nobody in charge of the major movie studios owned a fish, so they had to learn this lesson the hard way.
Despite some stumbles in the past, both Godzilla and King Kong have had financial success in their most recent movies in the US and around the world. So, not surprisingly, we’re going to be getting a film that’ll put them against each other in Godzilla vs. King Kong. The film will be directed by Adam Wingard, who was at SDCC, and talked to IGN about the pleasures and wonders of making this film.
My next interview subject and I have some history. In 2006, Jack O’Halloran, who you’ll remember from his role as Non in the first two Superman films with Christopher Reeve, joined a forum I was a member of and answered three questions apiece from users of the site. I asked him three questions, and in a way, Mr. O’Halloran’s coming to that forum inspired me towards my own interviews.
King Kong has arrived, as Skull Island’s full on poster was revealed at San Diego Comic Con today.