King Kong won't be too much shorter than Godzilla when the pair face-off in Warner Bros./Legendary's MonsterVerse cross movie Godzilla vs. Kong.Kaiju News Outlet posted an official Godzilla vs. Kong promo image to Twitter, confirming Godzilla will be 120 meters (394 feet) tall in the film, with Kong coming in at 102 meters (335 feet). This aligns with the movie's trailer footage, which depicts the two Titans as being fairly close in height.
Kong's height has varied greatly throughout the course of his movie appearances, ranging from 24 feet in 1933's original black-and-white King Kong to 147 feet in 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla and back down to 25 feet for Peter Jackson's 2005 King Kong remake. 2017's Kong: Skull Island took place in 1973 and served as an introduction to the MonsterVerse's Kong, revealing he was 104 feet tall at the time. Despite his already massive size, Kong was actually an adolescent in the film and, as such, still growing. This explains why he's more than tripled in height 48 years later, when Godzilla vs. Kong picks up.
In addition to mostly matching Godzilla in terms of height, Kong will have a giant axe at his disposal in Godzilla vs. Kong. The weapon's blade appears to be made out of one of Godzilla's dorsal fins, which explains how Kong is able to use it to block Godzilla's atomic breath during a nighttime city battle highlighted in the film's trailer marketing. It also seems Kong won't gain the axe until sometime after the pair's mid-ocean showdown atop an aircraft carrier -- a sequence composer Junkie XL said runs eighteen minutes.
Legends collide in âGodzilla vs. Kongâ as these mythic adversaries meet in a spectacular battle for the ages, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Kong and his protectors undertake a perilous journey to find his true home, and with them is Jia, a young orphaned girl with whom he has formed a unique and powerful bond. But they unexpectedly find themselves in the path of an enraged Godzilla, cutting a swath of destruction across the globe. The epic clash between the two titansâinstigated by unseen forcesâis only the beginning of the mystery that lies deep within the core of the Earth.
Directed by Adam Wingard and written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein, Godzilla vs. Kong stars Alexander Skarsgard, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry. The film arrives in theaters and on HBO Max on March 31.
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