When it was announced that Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla reboot was set to mark the launch of a shared mythology based around some of the most legendary kaiju in cinema, there were a lot of people left rolling their eyes. After all, we’d seen countless studios try and use a successful movie as the springboard to building a cinematic universe overnight, and the vast majority of them had failed.
However, the MonsterVerse got off to a great start, with Kong: Skull Island sidestepping all of the pitfalls that many similar projects had fallen into. The references to the wider canon were largely restricted almost entirely to the Monarch agency, and as a period piece director Jordan Vogt-Roberts was freed from the shackles of connective tissue, deciding that the best approach was to craft a $185 million thinly-veiled Vietnam metaphor where the enemy just happened to be a 100-foot tall ape.
It helped that Skull Island had assembled a phenomenal cast to sell the ridiculousness of the premise, while the action sequences provided plenty of blockbuster spectacle. A box office haul of $566 million showed that fans clearly got a kick out of it, but with subsequent installments Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong set in the present day, it looked as though it was the MonsterVerse was now a modern enterprise.
Now, however, sources close to WGTC are saying that a Kong: Skull Island show is in the works for HBO Max. No casting has been announced as of yet, and plot details remain scarce, but as always, watch this space for more.
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