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Godzilla vs. Kong, a prequel to King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island, will be released in 2021 as a sequel to both films.

Godzilla vs. Kong has a rocky development, first scheduled for release on May 29, 2020, then being moved back to March 13, 2020, only to be postponed again to November 20, 2020, and finally to May 21, 2021. It was then rescheduled for March 26, 2021, before finally arriving in American cinemas on March 31, 2021. Additionally, the film was streamed simultaneously on HBO Max until April 30, 2021.

A sequel to the movie is being worked on right now.

With the destiny of the planet at stake, "Godzilla vs. Kong" brings together two legendary enemies. A treacherous trip leads Kong and his guards to Jia, a little orphaned girl with whom Kong has built an unbreakable connection of love and loyalty. In the path of an infuriated Godzilla, they find themselves. It is simply the start of the enigma that lurks deep below the Earth's core.

As of 2024, Godzilla and Kong are the only Titans still alive on the planet, five years after Godzilla beat his extraterrestrial adversary Ghidorah. Because to a storm induced by Ghidorah, the climate of Skull Island has become unstable, prompting Monarch to keep Kong within a structure that resembles the island's ecology.

Meanwhile, Bernie Hayes, an employee of the Apex Cybernetics business and presenter of the Titan Truth Podcast, exfiltrates material indicating evil activity at an Apex facility in Pensacola, but as he finishes downloading the data, Godzilla appears and strikes unexpectedly. Bernie finds a bizarre piece of equipment like a huge robotic eye amid the facility's debris during Godzilla's assault.

Following the assault, the public has turned against Godzilla, who is no longer seen as humanity's savior. Madison Russell, now an adult and a follower of Bernie's podcast, is concerned when she hears about Godzilla's latest assault at her school. She attempts unsuccessfully after school to reason with her widowed father Mark (who is serving as Monarch's director) about a potential lead on the source of Godzilla's rampage, but he ignores all she says, stating merely that beasts, like humans, may evolve. Madison later enlists the aid of her closest friend Josh Valentine to track down the person responsible for Godzilla's rampage and uncover the mysteries of Apex.

Nathan Lind is a former scientist at Monarch who now thinks that the Titans live in the Hollow Earth, an underground world that is below the Earth and where they hide. Lind will help Apex's CEO, Walter Simmons, find a powerful energy source in the Hollow Earth. Nathan is afraid at first because his brother tried to go into the Hollow Earth, but a strong anti-gravity field inside the tunnel killed him. After Walter tells him that Apex has made and built Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, which can withstand the gravity field's pressure, he finally agrees.

To help guide them to the Hollow Earth, Nathan travels to Skull Island and meets his colleague, Monarch anthropological linguist and Jia's adoptive mother Ilene Andrews, with his idea of using Kong as their navigator to lead them to the energy source since Skull Island is no longer able to contain him (because Kong has grown too large) and allow him to survive. Though Ilene declines at first as she explains that Godzilla would come for Kong as soon as he was moved off of Skull Island, she finally accepts after being convinced by Nathan that they need to undertake this mission in order to stop Godzilla's rampage and that they can also find Kong a new home.

Nathan, Ilene, Jia, and an Apex crew lead by Walter's daughter Maia board a customized boat where a barely drugged Kong is shackled to keep him from escaping. On a rainy night, Kong grows restless and upset and begins pulling on the shackles that restrict him, but Jia soothes him by allowing her and Kong to hold fingers in solidarity as Kong signs the word "home" much to Ilene's surprise. The next day, Ilene tells to Nathan how she raised Jia as her adopted daughter when violent and unpredictable storms swept off the majority of the Iwi and her parents, but Jia was the only survivor due to Kong's protection, which resulted in the two developing a relationship.

The Titan comes and assaults the troops before capsizing the barge and almost drowning Kong and the others onboard. In the end, Nathan frees Kong by releasing his shackles, enabling him to combat Godzilla beneath long enough to swim up to the surface and overturn the barge, sparing the passengers from drowning. Then Godzilla jumps onboard a neighboring aircraft ship to battle Kong. Before Kong can drive Godzilla back into the water, fighter aircraft distract Godzilla sufficiently. To avoid the atomic bomb, Kong jumps off the carrier, but Godzilla wraps his tail around him and pulls him into the water, aiming to drown the Titan.

Nathan inquires as to whether Kong would go down the tube if there are others like him if they are unable to return him to Skull Island due to the cold. Ilene responds that he would. Ilene encourages Jia to inquire as to whether Kong's family is present in the area.

Walter intends to use the energies of the Hollow Earth in order to defeat Mechagodzilla. As a result of Apex's attack on Godzilla, he and the Titans are being phased out and replaced by humans. Five years after Apex got the severed head of Ghidorah from Alan Jonah, Ren is now seated inside it, operating Mechagodzilla through radio waves. Apex acquired the head from Alan Jonah five years ago.

While Ilene, Nathan, and Jia follow in their HEAV after hearing Godzilla's roar and accepting Godzilla's latest challenge, Kong takes the opportunity to make his way through the gap formed by Godzilla's atomic breath to Hong Kong. Arriving in Hong Kong, King takes on Godzilla once again, this time getting the upper hand over the Titan, eventually shoveling his axe down Godzilla's throat to prevent him from launching his atomic breath.. Even when Godzilla takes the axe and tosses it away, King Kuhn realizes that his axe can not only deflect Godzilla's atomic breath but also absorb the explosion. After evading Godzilla's strikes with the help of Hong Kong's skyscrapers and his superior agility, Kong returns to his axe and unleashes an explosive blast that knocks both Titans to the ground, leading Nathan to assume that Kong had won the second battle.

Both Kong and Godzilla recuperate and get up, with Godzilla on the lookout for Kong, who hides from the Titan by perching himself atop a tower. Kong ambushes Godzilla from above, placing the Titan in a chokehold with the intent of strangling him, only for Godzilla to break free and unleash his full fury on Kong, dislocating his left arm, slashing Kong with his claws, and even stomping on his chest twice, despite Kong's attempts to force Godzilla off of him by punching his wounded thigh. Godzilla, now that Kong has been restrained and held down, roars fiercely at his opponent in a display of power, while Kong, beaten, roars viciously in defiance of Godzilla.

Godzilla shows pity and saves his rival's life before walking away, leaving Kong alive but gravely hurt as he finally loses consciousness due to commotio cordis.

Unbeknownst to Walter, Mechagodzilla goes wild under the influence of both the energy source and Ghidorah's brain networks, ending in the robot murdering Walter with a sweep of its palm and Ren being electrocuted. Mechagodzilla, now possessed by Ghidorah's mind, escapes from the Apex facility under Victoria Peak Mountain and rampages over the city, evading confrontation with Godzilla. Mechagodzilla quickly approaches Godzilla and launches a volley of missiles at its biological counterpart before the two engage in combat.

The two Titans work together to change the tide, but the robot outsmarts them and defeats them. Kong reclaims his axe from the ruins after losing it during his previous encounter with Godzilla, and strikes numerous blows on Mechagodzilla, but his weapon has lost its charge, and his weapon is worthless against the robot, which seeks to kill Kong with its tail drill. All appears lost for Kong and Godzilla, while Bernie, recognizing he and the others have no choice but to drink, takes out a flask of bourbon and suggests they all have a drink. Josh, however, rips the flask from Bernie's grip and short-circuits Mechagodzilla's controls by dumping the contents of the drink all over the control panel, causing Mechagodzilla to halt for a brief while, allowing Godzilla and Kong to regroup and reclaim the upper hand.

When Godzilla sees Kong wielding his axe, he charges it up with his atomic breath, enabling Kong to sever Mechagodzilla's limbs and pull off its head before raising his trophy and taking a seat to rest.

Monarch subsequently established an observation station in the Hollow Earth. Ilene, Nathan, and Jia observe Kong on his morning stroll one day. Kong jumps atop a cliff, pounds his chest, and roars, proclaiming himself king of the Hollow Earth and joyfully accepting it as his new home and dominion.

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Godzilla vs. Kong has received a mostly favorable reception. As of April 16, 2021, the film has 341 reviews on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, 254 of which are fresh, with a "Tomatometer" rating of 74% certified Fresh. According to the site's reviewers' consensus section, "Delivering squarely on its title, Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you'd expect from giant monsters slugging it out."

After Godzilla vs. Kong was released in 2021, it was claimed that the picture had exceeded the overall box office of Godzilla: King of the Monsters despite the pandemic's continued impact on the moviegoing population.

Since 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla, this is the first time Godzilla and King Kong have appeared in a film together in 59 years.

Previously, Kyle Chandler appeared in Peter Jackson's 2005 version of King Kong, which also included King Kong.

Aside from the fact that Chandler is the only actor to have been in the casts of all three King Kong and Godzilla movies, he is also the only actor to have appeared in all three crossover films.

For some reason, I think the sequence in which King Kong uses an object to move his dislocated right shoulder reminds me of Martin Riggs' iconic stunt in the Lethal Weapon movies.

Several allusions to the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion may be seen in the film:

Mechagodzilla's base is similar to the Central Dogma, being subterranean and topped by a pyramid.