{"id":190626,"date":"2021-02-28T01:16:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T22:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kongzilla-should-be-the-next-sequel-after-godzilla-vs-kong\/"},"modified":"2021-02-28T01:16:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T22:16:53","slug":"kongzilla-should-be-the-next-sequel-after-godzilla-vs-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kongzilla-should-be-the-next-sequel-after-godzilla-vs-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;Kongzilla&#8217; Should Be the Next Sequel After &#8216;Godzilla vs. Kong&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#&#8217;Kongzilla&#8217; Should Be the Next Sequel After &#8216;Godzilla vs. Kong&#8217;<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.9--><em>Welcome to <strong>Pitch Meeting<\/strong>, a monthly column in which we suggest an IP ripe for adaptation, then assign the cast and crew of our dreams. In this entry, we\u2019re pitching \u2018Kongzilla,\u2019 the perfect \u2018Godzilla vs. Kong\u2019 sequel based on the forgotten collectible sculpture from Bowen Designs.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Sequels are beasts. Forever tasked with upping the ante, sooner or later, a follow-up will fumble. You gotta give the people what they want without giving them what they already had, even though that\u2019s exactly what they want.<\/p>\n<p><em>Aliens<\/em> swerved expectations by crossing genres and multiplying the Xenomorph threat into an infinite horde. <em>Terminator 2: Judgment Day<\/em>\u00a0flipped the threat, transforming the original\u2019s killer robot into a badass babysitter. <em>Avatar 2<\/em> will topple its predecessor by refusing to stop at one sequel and deliver a whole fistful of flicks.<\/p>\n<p>When crafting a sequel, you gotta ask, what would <strong>James Cameron<\/strong> do?<\/p>\n<p><em>Godzilla<\/em>: <em>King of the Monsters<\/em> squashed its originator by opening its battlefield to an array of classic Kaiju beasties from the franchise\u2019s massive monster roster. MUTOs are cool but not nearly as cool as King Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan. Point, sequel. This month, director <strong>Adam Wingard<\/strong> hopes his new film can stomp the previous entry by introducing another champion from a different franchise, King Kong. It\u2019s a safe bet.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker I don\u2019t envy is the one who has to follow Wingard\u2019s <strong><em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em><\/strong>. Where do you climb once the King of the Monsters squares off against the Eighth Wonder of the World? Well, having already analyzed <em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>\u2018s trailer, it seems obvious that the two titans will end their grudge match in favor of a team-up against Mechagodzilla. No doubt they\u2019ll clobber that tin can loser.<\/p>\n<p>In this modern Kaiju era, the next film could go <em>Tom &amp; Jerry<\/em> on us, inserting an ampersand, making Godzilla &amp; Kong partners, especially violently contentious ones. But, I don\u2019t know. Once you\u2019ve seen them sharing a single screen, a repeat is a letdown. The thrill is gone.<\/p>\n<p>What would James Cameron do? You gotta kick it up a notch. A task that seems hard beneath <em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>\u2018s shadow, but the answer rests in an unusual source.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-363500\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Godzilla-vs-Kong-Kongzilla-Art-Adams.jpg\" alt=\"Godzilla Vs Kong Kongzilla Art Adams\" width=\"800\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Godzilla-vs-Kong-Kongzilla-Art-Adams.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Godzilla-vs-Kong-Kongzilla-Art-Adams-768x791.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Back in the late \u201990s, when the comic book industry was at its lowest, <strong>Randy Bowen<\/strong> was still making a killing as the producer of high-end but affordable character statues and busts. <strong>Bowen Designs<\/strong> sold an extraordinary line-up including nearly every Marvel character: Black Panther to Fin Fang Foom. No one was too rad or too obscure.<\/p>\n<p>Superheroes were not his only <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. Now and again, he would venture out into stranger territories: Solomon Kane, The Goon, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_Dealer_(painting)\">Frank Frazetta\u2019s Death Dealer<\/a>.\u00a0He also concocted some original creatures like The Jimmy Legs, Decapitator, and <strong>Kongzilla<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Yaaaaaassssssssss. Bowen\u2019s Kongzilla was the stuff of hardcore nerd fantasies. This ridiculous mutation was never realized on screen before (a more apish iteration <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared briefly in the first issue of DC Comics\u2019 horror anthology <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Plop_Vol_1_1\"><em>Plop<\/em> #1<\/a> from 1973), but upon first sight, he felt like an obvious cinematic fit.<\/p>\n<p>Godzilla and Kong are natural-born frenemies.\u00a0They should take their relationship to the next level. Kongzilla is that next level! As a hybrid beast, Kongzilla sports the best attributes of each warrior. It\u2019s got Kong\u2019s pugilistic frame and stance, implying a lightning limberness never imagined capable by his opponent. Then, it also sports Godzilla\u2019s reptilian armor, complete with razor claws and dorsal plates.<\/p>\n<p>To help realize his fantasy, Bowen hired comic book artist and celebrated monster-maker\u00a0<strong>Arthur Adams<\/strong>. On the side of the figure\u2019s box, Adams illustrated a one-page tale explaining Kongzilla\u2019s origin. The first panel depicts the climactic Tokyo brawl from\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056142\/\">the original <em>King Kong vs. Godzilla<\/em> movie<\/a>. During their battle, chunks of their flesh are torn and flung across the city. In the third panel, we meet a \u201ccrazed scientific genius\u201d who unlocks both beasts\u2019 genetic codes and combines them into a new horrific Kaiju: Kongzilla. Those hoping for an erotic love story between Godzilla and Kong must look elsewhere.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra=\"{\" blog_id=\"\" class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular\" data-original-width=\"700\">\n<div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 695px; height: 258px;\">\n<div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 348px; height: 262px;\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"363501\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kongzilla\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-1.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-1-344x258.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" align=\"left\" title=\"Kongzilla\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 347px; height: 262px;\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"363502\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kongzilla\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Kongzilla-2-343x258.jpg\" width=\"343\" height=\"258\" align=\"left\" title=\"Kongzilla\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The four-paneled comic is not much to go on, but films have built masterpieces from less (Sean Penn\u2019s <em>The Indian Runner<\/em> sprung from Bruce Springsteen\u2019s \u201cHighway Patrolman,\u201d just one of several films <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Films_based_on_songs\">based on a song<\/a>). With Mechagodzilla hopefully thrashed during <em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>, Kongzilla makes for a nasty follow-up adversary. Unlike the robo-zilla, Kongzilla is not a mirror based on humanity\u2019s perception of the two titans but an actual biological double. It has all of their strengths, none of their weaknesses. It can take our Kaiju heroes to oblivion\u2019s edge.<\/p>\n<p>The Kongzilla film has to take Godzilla and Kong to an arena of bloodshed not yet experienced by the titular monsters. Maybe not R-rated, but as close to its realm as PG-13 can get. I\u2019m talking the dust bowl once known as Metropolis in <em>Man of Steel<\/em>. When the credits roll, we should feel uncomfortable. Godzilla and Kong have to do some wretched stuff to put their wicked doppelganger down.<\/p>\n<p>What director could best maximize such fighters and deliver a sequel that could easily dominate those that came before?\u00a0Clearly, the answer is James Cameron. Or, at least, the James Cameron of thirty years ago. Sadly, he doesn\u2019t exist, and the one that does will never break free from his infinite <em>Avatar<\/em> stream. We gotta turn elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neill Blomkamp<\/strong> is a director who\u2019s flirted with Cameron in the past. His re-imagined <em>Aliens<\/em> sequel never found liftoff, but what little imagery we gleamed from the unrealized project seemed tantalizing. There was also that aborted <em>Robocop<\/em> sequel, and\u00a0we\u2019re currently <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/article\/district-9-sequel-writing-neill-blomkamp\/\">waiting on\u00a0<em>District 10<\/em><\/a>. Let\u2019s get this guy to Skull Island.<\/p>\n<p>Blomkamp\u2019s grunge sci-fi sensibility would work smashingly well inside a Godzilla\/Kong composite. Kongzilla\u2019s mad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> allows the director to maintain his low-fi sci-fi aesthetic and branch out into untouched fantastical regions.\u00a0Getting him to hold back on the hard R violence is probably the biggest challenge, but we can always keep his more gnarly bits for the home release director\u2019s cut.<\/p>\n<p>With Blomkamp also comes Weta Digital. Yes, they\u2019ve already traipsed about Skull Island on Peter Jackson\u2019s <em>King Kong<\/em> remake,\u00a0but I\u2019ve seen their unused creature designs, and they can easily port them over to <em>Kongzilla<\/em>. Honestly, there\u2019s not much mucking with Arthur Adams\u2019 drawing. Weta can run wild with the tertiary beasties, but they shouldn\u2019t touch the Randy Bowen sculpture. That\u2019s your maquette. Run with it.<\/p>\n<p>Who do you get to round out the cast? Does it really matter? Okay, sure, probably. Definitely. You don\u2019t love King Kong without Fay Wray. You don\u2019t quake under Godzilla\u2019s feet without Akihiko Hirata or Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka under the suit. The people make the beasts.<\/p>\n<p>However, the modern Kaiju era is firmly established with the <em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em> cast. Bring whoever survives\u00a0into Blomkamp\u2019s <em>Kongzilla<\/em>. <strong>Demi\u00e1n Bichir<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Millie Bobby Brown<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Kyle Chandler<\/strong>, <strong>Julian Dennison<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Rebecca Hall<\/strong>, <strong>Brian Tyree Henry<\/strong>, <strong>Shun Oguri<\/strong>.They\u2019re a dynamite group. Accept no substitutes.<\/p>\n<p>Dropping Godzilla and Kong into the same ring for\u00a0<em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em> is a big deal. These are heavyweights, and schoolyard debates have waged for decades on who would take the other one down given the opportunity. Cinema will probably never reveal a definitive answer because they don\u2019t want to hurt either camp\u2019s feelings. And honestly, do we want to see Kong get squished under Godzilla\u2019s heel? Or vice versa? No, we love them both.<\/p>\n<p>Crushing Kongzilla is an answer of sorts. If Kong or Godzilla can destroy the amalgam, then it\u2019s surmised that they can destroy each other. Taking Kongzilla to the mat bypasses the awkward conjecture amongst fans. We can all leave the theater happy knowing our guy is the winner.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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