A new King Kong vs. Godzilla movie is being planned as Kong: Skull Island movie rights are moved from Universal to Warner Bros.
Major headlines are circulating around the Internet today as Deadline reports that Legendary's upcoming Kong: Skull Island has moved from Universal to Warner Bros. According to reports, that's because Legendary is focused on developing a new King Kong vs. Godzilla movie and are currently making efforts to keep the monster monkey and lizard together under the same distributor. Skull Island will still be released by March 10, 2017 with a sequel to Garth Edwards' Godzilla planned for June 8, 2018. After that, the two gargantuan monsters will square off in an untitled King Kong vs. Godzilla movie.
This is not the first time the lizard and monkey have fought on the big screen. In 1962, King Kong vs. Godzilla was the third Godzilla movie ever created. In that movie, the size of the monsters was adjusted to even the odds, however, many critics argued that Godzilla is much larger than King Kong.
Kong: Skull Island is being directed by The Kings of Summer's Jordan Vogt-Roberts from a script developed by John Gatins and Max Borenstein. Kong: Skull Island will explore the home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers venture deep inside the island. Legendary's story follows the foundation of the existing King Kong mythology, but places it in a new timeline. Previously, Simmons revealed a surprise setting for the movie, saying it would take place in Detroit in 1971. However, given the title of the movie, it is probably going to take place on Skull Island, not the hard streets of D-Town, Michigan.
The Godzilla sequel, is being written by Max Borenstein and will feature the return of Edwards as the movie's director. It has been hinted that we will se other famous characters including Kaiju, Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah, although these characters have not been fully confirmed so far.
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