It didn’t take long for the MonsterVerse‘s gears to start turning after Godzilla vs. Kong became the highest-grossing Hollywood blockbuster since Bad Boys for Life was released in January 2020, although the most surprising detail surrounding the new chapter that was recently announced to be in development was Adam Wingard’s involvement.
After all, the filmmaker has a pretty busy schedule with Face/Off 2 currently in the scripting stage, while he’s also set to realize a lifelong dream by helming a ThunderCats movie, so it could be a long time before we see Warner Bros. and Legendary’s next big budget creature feature. Son of Kong has been rumored as a potential title, and it would be hilarious if it was to model itself directly after the 1933 original, which runs for less than 70 minutes and sees the albino title character killed by drowning less than ten minutes after he first appears.
However, we’ve heard from our sources – the same ones who told us Jared Leto’s Joker was getting a brand new look in Zack Snyder’s Justice League long before it was confirmed – that the next installment in the MonsterVerse could feature multiple Kongs. Of course, it’s been established in canon that he’s the last of his species, but there’s a couple of ways to write around it.
One would be to venture back into the Hollow Earth, something Wingard is keen to do and evidently used to have more than a few giant apes dwelling in its deepest recesses, or we could get another prequel in the vein of Skull Island, except this one would be set even further back when there were entire families of Kongs running around. Either way, there’s far too much money on the table to let the MonsterVerse go to waste, whether that’s with one hulking primate at the forefront or a whole bunch of them.
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