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Cameras Have Begun Rolling For The New GODZILLA Movie; Official Synopsis Goes Live

Legendary/Warner Bros. Production is officially underway for the sequel to Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla. The new movie is being principally shot in Atlanta, Georgia with Michael Doughtery directing from a script by Zach Shields with Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Brian Rogers and Thomas Tull producing, and with Barry H. Waldman, Zach Shields, Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira serving as executive producers with Legendary Pictures’s Alexandra Mendes co-producing. The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance. The new film marks the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’s and Legendary Pictures’s cinematic MonsterVerse: an epic action adventure that pits […]

GODZILLA 2 Casts Zhang Ziyi

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Actress Zhang Ziyi (Hero, 2046, The Grandmaster) is back and upping the ante with a role now forthcoming in the upcoming sequel to Gareth Edwards’s monster hit, Godzilla. Legendary has closed a deal for the actress to star in a role that will have her outfitted within the covert Monarch organization in a story set several years following the events of the 2014 film. Zhang will be joined by Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown and Bradley Whitford, along with returning actor Watanabe Ken. Michael Dougherty will direct from a his own script written with scribe Zach Shields for its March 22, 2019 release prior to Adam Wingard’s pending Monsterverse follow-up production, Godzilla Vs. Kong which opens on May 22, 2020. Ziyi is a Golden Globe award-winning actress with BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her role in Rob Marshall’s 2005 drama, Memoirs Of A Geisha, as well […]

GODZILLA 2 Is In Talks For A New Director

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Bearing my soul here some, so here goes: Gareth Edward’s 2014 rendition of Toho property, Godzilla, kinda sucked. It may be because of the fact that I caught a late showing of it at the movies and fell asleep in the finale which is why I continually feel unresolved by it or it could be because to date, even watching it on television or on VoD, that I still end up falling asleep by the third act. Or maybe I’m just cranky and need more sleep. I don’t know.. Eventually I did catch the last part in the on/off bits-and-pieces viewing of it but it’s still a little frustrating and I’m probably alone on this. A friend of mine named Darren saw it and loved it and frankly I’m a little jealous. Ha! The jury is still out on my own receival of Funimation Films’s release of Shin Godzilla so […]

Warner And Legendary Announce A Trio Of Titles Leading Into GODZILLA VS. KONG In 2020

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Depending on who you are, you either may or may not have seen the news of a crossover movie between King Kong and Godzilla coming at the time Gareth Edwards drew huge praise for his own remake last year. Fast forward a year later with monster movie success now a thing following the release of Jurassic World this past summer prior to its sequel, Kong: Skull Island in the works and what with all the Gamera excitement and Toho’s own Godzilla movie filming as of last month, and general pining for a Pacific Rim 2, and now it appears Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros are making it official. Following last month’s striking developments, Godzilla VS. Kong is coming in five years with at least two movies before then, making 2017 another great year for movies in the making. Yes, the ultimate battle of movie juggernauts is officially upon us! Cue the press […]

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Legendary Moves KONG: SKULL ISLAND To Warner Bros. Ahead Of Epic Monster Clash With GODZILLA!

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Cinematic universes have become more and more prominent in recent history with all the Marvel and DC fanfare and the currently-brewing monsterverse at Universal with Dracula Untold being a few of the latest. When director Gareth Edwards released Godzilla last year to box office acclaim, of course many might not have predicted the film would go beyond what was already being perpetuated for a sequel. Keep this in mind now with word from THR that Legendary Pictures is now well on the way with moving their latest monster thriller, Kong: Skull Island, over to Warner Bros from Universal Pictures in an attempt to culminate an epic monsterverse that would ultimately pit the king of the monsters against the one and only King Kong! The last time this mash-up happened was in 1962. That said, considering the nostalgic nature of most of today’s film climate along with all sorts of whimsical […]