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The sequel to Gareth Edwards’ Godzil­la sounds absolute­ly epic

20 Jun 2017

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Aggressive reptilian creature with gaping jaws, sharp teeth, and scaly green skin amid dark, foggy surroundings.
Aggressive reptilian creature with gaping jaws, sharp teeth, and scaly green skin amid dark, foggy surroundings.
The King of Mon­sters will take on Moth­ra and Rodan in Michael Dougherty’s action sci-fi.

Fol­low­ing the baf­fling recent suc­cess of Kong: Skull Island, Warn­er Bros and Leg­endary Pic­tures have announced that the next chap­ter in their cin­e­mat­ic ​‘Mon­ster­Verse’ has start­ed film­ing. It sounds pret­ty epic, too, with the plot cen­tring around the icon­ic epony­mous crea­ture doing bat­tle with numer­ous oth­er mon­sters from pop cul­ture history.

The as-yet unti­tled film is being billed as an offi­cial sequel to Gareth Edwards’ barn­storm­ing 2014 film, Godzil­la, which for our mon­ey is one of the tru­ly great block­busters of the 21st century.

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It sees Kram­pus direc­tor Michael Dougher­ty take over the reins, with Ken Watan­abe and Sal­ly Hawkins repris­ing their roles and Vera Farmi­ga, Kyle Chan­dler, Charles Dance, Stranger Things’ Mil­lie Bob­by Brown and Straight Out­ta Comp­ton​’s O’Shea Jack­son join­ing the cast.

Here’s a tan­ta­lis­ing snip­pet from the synopsis:

“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 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.”

Prin­ci­pal pho­tog­ra­phy got under­way on 19 June, so expect to see this one hit the big screen some­time next summer.

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