While Godzilla vs. Kong finally delivers on the epic promise of King Kong fighting the King of Monsters, the upcoming film has an official runtime of less than two hours. However, according to director Adam Wingard, this lean-paced movie is his vision for the story.

In the wake of Zack Snyder's Justice League arriving on HBO Max, Wingard declared that the theatrical version of Godzilla vs. Kong does not omit anything he intended to appear in his definitive vision.

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"Just a couple weeks ago, the running time came out about the movie and the running time is under two hours but, as you know, we fit a hell of a lot of movie in under two hours," Wingard tells CBR with a laugh. "A lot of the Godzilla fans got up and were like 'What's going on?! This is the shortest of the MonsterVerse films! Is there going to be a director's cut?' The thing is, this is the director's cut, there is nothing left out. The funny thing is, if there was a three-hour long version of this movie, you wouldn't get an extra hour of the monsters fighting, you'd get an extra hour of people talking about the monsters, it's just the way it would work."

For Wingard, this tight pacing was employed so as to not waste any time getting the action going once the characters and overarching plot had been established. As a lifelong fan of the Godzilla films, Wingard sought to make a movie that would appeal just as much to his inner-child as it does to the now-adult filmmaker.

"I wanted this to be a totally dense thrill ride from start to finish. Obviously, we're a sequel, there's a little bit of setup that I do at the beginning of the film. You've got to get the state of the world out of the way, you've got to introduce the characters. We do all that in 30 minutes, set up all the stakes, and then BOOM, you're off to the races," Wingard continues. "For me, I wanted to watch a movie that the seven-year old in me wanted to see because, when you're a kid, you just get bored easy. It's got all the adult shit and you want the movie to feel like it's made for adults when you're watching it but, at the end of the day, you want it to appeal to you, in its pacing, as a kid."

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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