GODZILLA X KONG Director Grateful to Make Movie He ‘Dreamed About’ as a Kid
By Movieguide® Contributor
GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE director Adam Wingard is grateful for the opportunity to direct the latest monster movie.
After Wingard filmed GODZILLA VS. KONG in 2021, he felt he had more to give.
“I just figured out how to make a giant monster movie,” he told TheWrap. “And here I was at the end of the journey.”
“I really felt like there was a lot of unfulfilled potential that I knew now how to approach, and I was excited right out the gate into jumping back in because I felt like, having made GODZILLA VS. KONG, I had this newfound sense of confidence in terms of how to approach the monsters as fully realized characters and how to tell a movie from their point of view,” Wingard continued. “It really excited me, the idea of being able to do a film that was very visuals-driven. We have large sections without dialogue and that was my big drive, making a film that the 10-year-old version of myself dreamed about.”
GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE has found massive success so far, garnering over $200 million worldwide following its opening weekend.
“This latest entry in the Monsterverse franchise follows up the explosive showdown of GODZILLA VS. KONG with an all-new cinematic adventure, pitting the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence — and our own,” a synopsis of the film says.
Part of Movieguide®’s review of the movie reads:
GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE pits the two giant monsters against a new threat. A human scientist, Ilene Andrews, travels to Hollow Earth with two friends and her adopted deaf daughter, Jia, to investigate electrical disturbances. Jia has a telepathic connection to Kong and is having visions of Kong in trouble. Kong runs into a giant ape in Hollow Earth, who’s enslaved other giant apes and enslaved a large dinosaur who uses harmful, deadly energy beams of ice. The evil giant ape, Scar King, wants to lead his army to the surface to destroy human civilization and rule the Earth.
GODZILLA X KONG takes a while to expose the new villain and what’s really happening in Hollow Earth. However, there’s lots of exciting action before those revelations occur, and afterwards. GODZILLA X KONG has a strong moral worldview. The story’s goals are to protect human civilization and restore a fallen kingdom. GODZILLA X KONG also promotes the love between a mother and her adopted daughter. It’s marred, however, by lots of mostly light foul language and intense, scary violence featuring giant monsters.
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