The Monsterverse Timeline
Love monsters? Live for epic face offs? Can’t get enough of giant show downs?
To celebrate the upcoming release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we’re taking a look back at our epic monsterverse timeline.
King Kong (1933)
In the classic adventure that made her a star, Fay Wray plays the beautiful woman who conquers the savage heart of a giant ape. Traveling to an uncharted South Pacific island with an adventurer following tales of a God-Ape, Ann Darrow (Wray) is captured by the island's natives to serve as a human sacrifice to Kong. But when Kong, a giant ape, sees Darrow, it is overcome with love--and eventually captured by the adventurers. Taken to New York and put on display, Kong breaks free and pursues Darrow through New York in one of the most famous scenes ever filmed.
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Godzilla (2014)
The world's most revered monster was reborn as visionary director Gareth Edwards (Monsters) unleashed the epic action adventure GODZILLA. Starring an international ensemble cast led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe (The Last Samurai, Inception), Elizabeth Olsen, Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche (The English Patient) and Oscar® nominee Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine) with Oscar® nominee David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck.) and Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston, GODZILLA is a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature -- when the awe-inspiring creature rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless. This spectacular adventure pits the world's most famous monster against malevolent creatures that, bolstered by humanity's scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.
Watch the trailer here.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
The producers of Godzilla reimagined the origins of one the most powerful monster myths of all in Kong: Skull Island, from Warner Bros. Pictures, Legendary Pictures and Tencent Pictures. This compelling, original adventure from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings of Summer) tells the story of a diverse team of scientists, soldiers and adventurers uniting to explore a mythical uncharted island in the Pacific, as dangerous as it is beautiful. Cut off from everything they know, the team ventures into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape a primal Eden in which humanity does not belong.
Watch the trailer here.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Following the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse: Godzilla II: King of the Monsters. An epic action adventure that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history, including the mighty Ghidorah.
Watch the trailer here.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
This epic adventure, Godzilla vs. Kong, provided fans with the long-awaited showdown between the two icons. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance. Kong and his protectors undertake a perilous journey to find his true home, and with them is Jia, a young orphaned girl with whom he has formed a unique and powerful bond. But they unexpectedly find themselves in the path of an enraged Godzilla, cutting a swath of destruction across the globe. The initial confrontation between the two Titans-instigated by unseen forces-is only the beginning of the mystery that lies deep within the core of the Earth.
Watch the trailer here.
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures' cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of Godzilla vs. Kong with an all-new adventure that pits the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence—and our own. Godzilla x Kong delves further into the histories of these Titans and their origins, as well as the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond.
Watch the new trailer here.
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