GODZILLA VS KONG: Legendary Wants $250M Before New HBO Max Release
Mike Sprague
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The Guest and You’re Next director Adam Wingard’s epic monster mash Godzilla Vs Kong will smash into theaters and HBO Max on May 2021. Maybe. Primarily financed by Legendary Pictures, the studio will only allow it to stream if WB hands over $250 million – the price Netflix originally offered for the film.
Deadline reports: “Godzilla Vs Kong might stay an HBO Max hybrid in its May 21 slot, but only if Warner Bros makes a deal with Legendary that uses as a base the $250 million value established when the film was shopped earlier to Netflix.”
[Lets out Kong-sized sigh] We’ll keep you updated.
Here’s the kick-ass plot synopsis. Humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course. And the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages. Monarch embarks on a perilous mission into uncharted terrain. They unearth clues to the Titans’ origins. A human conspiracy threatens to wipe the creatures from the face of the earth forever.
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Wingard directs Godzilla Vs Kong from a script by Eric Pearson and also Max Borenstein. Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields penned the story based on Godzilla by Toho and King Kong by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper.
Godzilla Vs Kong stars Alexander Skarsgård (The Stand), Millie Bobby Brown, and also Rebecca Hall. Brian Tyree Henry co-stars with Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Jessica Henwick, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler, and Demián Bichir. Mary Parent produced with Alex Garcia, Eric McLeod, and Brian Rogers. Mayan half-man, half-bat monster god Titanus Camazotz may also feature in the film. Described as being like “darkness,” the new Titan is the “embodiment of nightmares.”
Rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of creature violence/destruction and brief language,” Godzilla Vs Kong stomps into theaters and HBO Max on May 21, 2021.
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