Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard revealed the look of the latest incarnation of MechaGodzilla was directly inspired by his desire to improve on the beings from another popular movie franchise: Transformers.
"I remember watching the third Transformers movie in the theater," Wingard told Inverse. "It was one of those things where I was with a date, and we got there late, and the only seats that were available were literally in the front row. And so I'm sitting there watching Transformers 3 in the front row, and I couldn't tell what the hell was going on. The Transformers, they just looked like metal. They looked like a plane crash. So I thought, that's the thing I wanted to avoid. They were too complex. There are too many moving parts, and I couldn't latch on to anything. Nothing felt iconic with that Transformers design."
In the MonsterVerse franchise, MechaGodzilla is created by Apex Cybernetics from the remains of King Ghidorah, who was defeated in 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters. This differs from MechaGodzilla's origin in 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. In that film, MechaGodzilla is built specifically to be Godzilla's antagonist by aliens from Black Hole Planet 3, who even disguise the construct in a false flesh exoskeleton body so it resembles Godzilla.
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 is currently in theaters and on HBO Max.
Source: Inverse