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The MonsterVerse [1] is an American multimedia franchise and shared fictional universe featuring GodzillaKing Kongmonsterverse fandom, and other characters owned and created by Toho Co. The franchise is produced by Legendary Pictures and co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros.

The MonsterVerse is an American multimedia franchise and shared fictional universe that is centered on a series of monster films featuring Godzilla and King Kong , produced by Legendary Entertainment and co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The first installment was Godzilla , a reboot of the Godzilla franchise, which was followed by Kong: Skull Island , a reboot of the King Kong franchise, Godzilla: King of the Monsters , and Godzilla vs. Kong Writer Max Borenstein stated that the MonsterVerse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla. Tull had offered Borenstein the opportunity to write the first draft for Kong: Skull Island , with the goal to establish Kong in the same universe as Legendary's Godzilla film. Tull's vision was for the films to one day lead to Godzilla vs.

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Ishiro Serizawa Godzilla: King of the Monsters. A colossal apex predator who feeds on radiation, Godzilla has periodically surfaced throughout human history, worshipped as a god by a super-ancient civilization and inspiring some of humanity's mythology. The multinational scientific agency Monarch became aware of his existence in ; shortly thereafter, the United States attempted to kill him with the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test in Bikini Atoll. The public did not become aware of Godzilla's existence until , when parasitic creatures from his time period dubbed MUTOs awakened and prepared to begin reproducing. He battled the male in Honolulu, then destroyed him and his female mate in a protracted duel in San Francisco. In , he awakened in the Algerian desert and traveled to the underground realm called Axis Mundi , where he soundly defeated the Ion Dragon. When a group of eco-terrorists freed his ancient nemesis King Ghidorah from his icy tomb in Antarctica in , Godzilla confronted the newly-awakened three-headed Titan, nearly defeating him in their second clash in the waters off Mexico before being interrupted by the U. Godzilla retreated to his underwater lair in the Hollow Earth to heal, but his rejuvenation was accelerated by the sacrifice of Dr. Ishiro Serizawa , who set off a thermonuclear warhead in his vicinity. Godzilla, aided by Mothra , triumphed over Ghidorah in a final confrontation in Boston. The numerous Titans who Ghidorah awakened submitted to Godzilla, accepting him as the King of the Monsters. Godzilla journeyed around the world to maintain balance among the these Titans and humanity for some time, but after locating a new home for himself, returned the Titans to their ancient rest. In , Godzilla sensed Apex Cybernetics ' construction of Mechagodzilla , an artificial Titan meant to overthrow him, and began attacking the company's facilities, with humanity assuming he had turned against them. He intercepted a U.

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The MonsterVerse is an American multimedia franchise and a shared cinematic universe which features Godzilla , King Kong , and other monster characters owned and created by Toho Co. The franchise produced by Legendary Pictures and co-produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures that began in Each of the films center around Monarch , a cryptozoological organization dedicated to studying the creatures, and their various encounters with the beasts. Many of the Kaiju present in the MonsterVerse are called Titans.

Monarch was founded in secrecy in around the late s [2] to [3] as a Japanese-American quasi-governmental coalition in order to hunt and study massive unidentified terrestrial organisms MUTOs. Monarch was initially staffed primarily by William Randa , Keiko Miura and Lee Shaw , whom had first become aware of the existence of Titans in when they encountered with the Ion Dragon in the Philippines. One of Monarch's earliest discoveries was a gigantic footprint left by Godzilla , which the aforementioned trio brought to the attention of General Puckett , requesting uranium with the intention of luring Godzilla out of hiding to determine if he was an active threat. These actions led to the Castle Bravo atomic detonation in Bikini Atoll which was intended to kill Godzilla, despite Keiko and Randa's objections. In the aftermath, Lee proposed to Puckett that Monarch be given extra funding and resources to expand their staff and construct worldwide outposts to monitor for any more Titans, at which point Puckett granted Monarch an unlimited budget.

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Mechagodzilla is a mechanized daikaiju created by Legendary Pictures , that first appeared serving as the secondary antagonist of the film Godzilla vs. It was constructed by the corporation Apex Cybernetics , as an anti-Titan weapon designed to establish humanity as the apex predator by surpassing the Titans, and was innately designed to kill Godzilla. However, Apex made a mistake during its construction, using the telepathic skull of the late Ghidorah as a key component of the remote control system. This allowed the lingering consciousness of Ghidorah to subsume the pilot, Ren Serizawa , and take total control. Rampaging through Hong Kong , it was eventually stopped by the combined efforts of Godzilla and Kong , before being brutally dismantled using Kong's axe. Officially, this incarnation is called the Mecha by Apex Cybernetics , and it is christened Mechagodzilla by Josh Valentine in the film. The character's design was inspired by the Terminator franchise. Creature designer and concept artist Jared Krichevsky explained that this meant that the design of Mechagodzilla had to be something similar to Godzilla himself, that as an intelligent animal and hunter, seeing something skeletal akin to himself would have a very unnerving effect.

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Complex Media. In his fight with the Ion Dragon , Godzilla easily overpowered his opponent, throwing him at a mountain at one point and finishing the fight by throwing the Dragon into the nearby Hollow Earth vortex. Archived from the original on October 21, As the monsters' battle continued, Mothra arrived and pinned Ghidorah's heads against a nearby building with her silk. Wikimedia Commons. O'Shea Jackson Jr. Retrieved January 23, Kong would be released on May 29, , later pushed back to May 21, , and that Godzilla: King of the Monsters would be pushed back from its original June 8, release date to March 22, ,however, the film was later pushed back again to May 31, As Scylla continued to go on a feeding spree across the world, Godzilla arrived just a few hours after she moved on each time. As the smoke cleared and Godzilla continued his rampage, Bernie saw a strange piece of technology resembling a giant robotic eye among the ruins of the facility.

The MonsterVerse , sometimes called the Legendary era or Legendary series by the fans, is a series of giant monster films featuring Godzilla and King Kong produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Kong in Writer Max Borenstein stated that the MonsterVerse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla.

Reilly Will Brittain Y. Godzilla Millennium Godzilla vs. He explained that the orchestra had to be big in order to avoid filling gaps in the score with electronics. In Godzilla , Dr. Each film and television series is linked to the "Critical response" section of its article. Titanus Kong Tribe. Legendary Pictures Warner Bros. Godzilla saw the skull of a member of Kong 's species and recognized it as belonging to his rival. He remembered how Ishiro Serizawa , as well as the humans that once resided there, had died for him. Just as Hayes was downloading data from an Apex computer onto a flash drive, Godzilla suddenly rose from the ocean and attacked the facility. The Futon Critic.