{"id":214002,"date":"2021-03-29T21:00:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/godzilla-vs-kongs-monster-sized-fights-film\/"},"modified":"2021-03-29T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T18:00:21","slug":"godzilla-vs-kongs-monster-sized-fights-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/godzilla-vs-kongs-monster-sized-fights-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Godzilla vs Kong&#8217;s Monster-Sized Fights \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a355599bb15f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a355599bb15f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/godzilla-vs-kongs-monster-sized-fights-film\/#Max_Borenstein_Interview\" >Max Borenstein Interview<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Godzilla vs Kong&#8217;s Monster-Sized Fights \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-658947 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzilla-vs.-kong-international-poster-700x321.jpg\" alt=\"max borenstein interview\" width=\"700\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzilla-vs.-kong-international-poster-700x321.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzilla-vs.-kong-international-poster-360x165.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzilla-vs.-kong-international-poster-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzilla-vs.-kong-international-poster.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Legendary\u2019s MonsterVerse has featured multiple directors and a myriad of creatures since its launch in 2014, but one person has been along for the ride on every movie in the franchise: <strong>Max Borenstein<\/strong>, whose most recent credit is as a writer on this month\u2019s titanic culmination,\u00a0<strong><em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke with Borenstein about his involvement with the franchise on each movie, how he writes big monster fight sequences (\u201cIt\u2019s not, \u2018They fight on the water. Fill in the blanks.&#8217;\u201d), how Legendary differs from Marvel Studios, and incorporating human drama in a movie where a lot of people just want to see giant monsters destroying stuff.<span id=\"more-664277\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Max_Borenstein_Interview\"><\/span>Max Borenstein Interview<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>I want to ask you a process question: how do you write monster fights in your screenplays?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Well, it\u2019s just like you\u2019d write a dialogue scene, honestly. I think in this case, part of the process is devising with the director and concept artists and creative team what the basic shape or venue of the fight would be. So the idea of a fight between Godzilla and Kong on the water, for example, on a fleet of ships. That idea might exist, or come into being. Then in terms of the ins and outs and moment to moment, it\u2019s, \u201cOK, who are our human characters? How are they going to be in jeopardy? And how do we go beat by beat out of the frying pan and into the fire for them, and for Godzilla and Kong?\u201d If it were a dialogue scene, you\u2019d be thinking about what the agenda of each character is, things are paying off and escalating. It\u2019s very much the same way. It\u2019s not, \u201cThey fight on the water. Fill in the blanks.\u201d It\u2019s, \u201cSuddenly, there\u2019s a sound from the distance. A siren. Heads turn.\u201d Collaboratively with everyone, you\u2019re deciding what that is and then you\u2019re trying to dramatize moment to moment, and then there\u2019s a feedback loop. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But really as a writer, that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing. You\u2019re generating all of it. \u201cThe ship\u2019s going to invert and they tr<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>ed themselves in, but now the water is coming up, so he has to swim to the ceiling in order to pull the switch.\u201d Or \u201cthey\u2019re going to drop the depth charges and that\u2019s going to hopefully help Kong, and if Kong gets help, then he can help them.\u201d All of those beats are devised, written, and ultimately executed. To be honest, that\u2019s the majority of the writing on a movie like this, is figuring out what those sequences are like and how you\u2019re connecting and leapfrogging between them in the most elegant or efficient way, and trying to retain some semblance of logic between it. But ultimately you\u2019re really trying to serve the spectacle and the emotion attached to that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>I spoke with Adam Wingard and he told me about how Terry Rossio formed a writers\u2019 room and that Adam and Terry ended up breaking a lot of this movie\u2019s story on notecards early in the process. At what point did you enter the mix?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Yeah, so I\u2019ve been involved in this franchise from the beginning and in each one, in a different way. So with <i>Godzilla<\/i>, I kind of came in at that phase with Gareth Edwards and we kind of rebuilt it from the ground up, and then I was sort of on that movie more or less throughout production and post. On <i>Kong: Skull Island<\/i>, that started while <i>Godzilla<\/i> was in post. So I wrote the first couple of drafts, and then when [director] Jordan [Vogt-Roberts] came in, I went off and did a television show and came back before they went into production and took some of the work they\u2019d done in the interim and a lot of the work I had done and kind of reassembled it. And I was on that movie through production and then in post as well. Then <i>Godzilla 2<\/i>, I wrote the first draft and then left. I was kind of in the mix, in the family, staying abreast of what was going on, but it took off in a very different direction, keeping some of the story elements. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Then with <i>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/i>, it was a little different than all of them. I got to be the guy that was brought in closer to production, and it was like, \u201cHere are the bones we have. This is working, this isn\u2019t working.\u201d And being someone who knew the franchise and knew all the people and likes them all and works well with them, was able to come in and help them start to assemble those bones into the skeleton that there is, and then was sort of able to stay involved during production and in post, because there are certain things that continue to evolve and shape during that. So those guys really devised what was the basic backbone of the story, and I was able to come in in a more of script doctor-y way to help massage and make that stuff work on this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Adam was telling me a little about the post process and that you guys only had five days of pickups on this movie, and you really had to be surgical in terms of the decisions made to form that connective tissue. Were you a part of that process?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s2\">Yeah, I was involved in helping watch cuts and decide, or at least give my two cents in terms of what might be helpful. There\u2019s a great creative team there at Legendary that I\u2019ve worked with over the course of all these films that is very hands-on. They give each filmmaker a lot of latitude, a lot more than other franchises, which I think is one of the cool distinctive things about the MonsterVerse. Marvel is so curated in a brilliant way, where they basically, there is a distinctive quality to a Taika [Waititi] movie \u2013 you can sense it\u2019s him \u2013 but still, it\u2019s very much all part of the Marvel universe. With this, it\u2019s looser. It is all part of the universe, but Gareth\u2019s movie is very Gareth, Jordan\u2019s movie is very Jordan, and Mike\u2019s movie is very Mike, and Adam\u2019s movie is very Adam. They\u2019re give the opportunity to really play and have the keys, essentially. As a writer, it\u2019s my job in these <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> to come in and help them service that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>I know a lot of the Marvel movies use pre-viz for big scenes even before the scripts are written. How does it work with the MonsterVerse? Does the studio have ideas for scenes or big moments ahead of time?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To some extent. I think it\u2019s more the director and the concept team and all of that. The studio is certainly supportive of it and has its own ideas, but it\u2019s less like a Kevin Feige at Marvel, because he knows that world and is the showrunner, in a sense, of the Marvel universe. This is much more \u2013 I think Legendary takes the role of patrons, almost. They\u2019re like the Medicis giving money to Leonardo and Michelangelo and saying, \u201cRun with it. Yeah, we want The Last Supper, but you do your thing.\u201d It\u2019s more like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-647563 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzillavskong-battle-aircraftcarrier-frontpage-700x300.jpg\" alt=\"Godzilla vs Kong Streaming Release\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzillavskong-battle-aircraftcarrier-frontpage.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/godzillavskong-battle-aircraftcarrier-frontpage-360x154.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Obviously you\u2019ve worked on all of these movies. Are you the go-to guy on set when it comes to mythology or questions about if things fit into the larger picture? Or if anyone is wondering, \u201cCan Monarch do this?\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(laughs) Well, I\u2019ve certainly been the guy who\u2019s been able to stick around and be helpful with that, and I think it\u2019s been an evolving, gestating thing, but yeah, I was certainly, they used me sometimes for that. They know it as well as anybody, the guys at Legendary. They\u2019re very hands-on and involved in stewarding that kind of stuff. But I\u2019ve considered myself really fortunate to be able to stay with the franchise in different ways. It\u2019s tracked with a whole section of my own career, going from the young writer who wrote the first new draft with a new director coming in and was desperate to stay involved, and at one point I got replaced by a much more senior writer, but then I came back. So <i>Godzilla<\/i> was a different thing in that way. [And on <i>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/i>], I got to be the guy who got brought in to help be a stable hand toward the end, which was fun. It was like being a senior in high school instead of a freshman. But I\u2019ve kind of matured and grown with this franchise in a lot of ways, and it\u2019s a part of my life in a great way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Can you tell me about the <i><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/i> show you were developing? What would that have been about?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m allowed. I wish I could. I don\u2019t want to step on anyone\u2019s toes and say too much about it. But it\u2019s something that, hopefully, maybe one day it will see the light of day. I\u2019m doing another show for HBO right now, and I love those guys. I trust all the great things they\u2019re going to do with that franchise. So we\u2019ll see. I\u2019m certainly really passionate about it, and I could \u2013 but I shouldn\u2019t \u2013\u00a0talk about it. (laughs)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Fair enough. <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>What\u2019s the latest on your Space Mountain movie? Any updates on that front?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">That\u2019s a great question. That was a hopeful thing and it was years ago, before Disney bought <i>Star Wars<\/i>. At the time, anyway, it was like, \u201cOK, well they seem to have a space movie and a space franchise right now.\u201d But actually, there is \u2013 they may. I\u2019ve heard rumblings that they may be thinking about doing something in that space, so I don\u2019t know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Now with Disney+, it seems like there\u2019s more room.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It seems like they must, right? It\u2019s one of my favorite rides. It always has been. So we\u2019ll see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>I think I have time for one more question. What is the challenge of incorporating human drama in a story like <em>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/em>, in which arguably a significant number of people are only there to see giant monsters smash things?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It\u2019s funny, I\u2019ve kind of discovered it recently \u2013\u00a0like I said, I kind of matured and grew along with this franchise and learned a thing or two. One of the challenges is scale. In a superhero movie, your superheroes are also human beings who have families and problems and things, and that\u2019s why you can connect. Whereas here, your monsters are not human, and not only are they not human, but they\u2019re so big and out of our scale, that they don\u2019t really interact with human beings in a plausible way very much at all. They crush the things we\u2019re in, but they\u2019re much more like a natural disaster: they\u2019re so much bigger than us. So we invent ways of having people have agency, but some of those can verge on cheesy, like controlling a monster that can fight them, right? It can work, but it tends to detract or even compete with the creatures themselves. And so what I\u2019ve learned over the course of this, and it\u2019s been a learning curve, is that I think the best human characters in these movies are supporting characters, if you treat them like supporting characters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you imagine <i>Mission: Impossible<\/i>, Ethan Hunt is your star. There should be no human being in a Godzilla or a Kong movie who tries to compete with an Ethan Hunt. That\u2019s Kong or Godzilla. That\u2019s their role. They\u2019re the star of the movie. That said, if you look at <i>Kong: Skull Island<\/i>, one of my favorite characters in the franchise is the character John C. Reilly played. The reason why he\u2019s great is because he\u2019s not the star of the movie, he\u2019s a character role. He\u2019s a supporting role, and there\u2019s humor, there\u2019s emotion, there\u2019s pathos \u2013 he\u2019s not trying to compete, plot-wise, with Kong. But what he\u2019s doing is he\u2019s an investment for us. He\u2019s not trying to be the leading man, he\u2019s being a supporting character, and it\u2019s lovable. I think we\u2019ve done that in <i>Godzilla vs. Kong<\/i> as well. There\u2019s a number of characters, even the ones who seem \u2013 like Alex Skarsgard, who seems like a leading man, he isn\u2019t really. He\u2019s quirky and he has his own agenda, and he\u2019s really kind of a supporting character. I think by leaning into that in this film, and by leaning into the idea that Godzilla and Kong are the stars of the movie, it allows for the human beings to not feel like annoying detractions, or distractions from those stars. 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