Godzilla: King of the Monsters

Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Timing: 2:12 (132 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2019-05-29

Country

China, Japan, United States

Production

TOHO, Legendary Pictures, Huahua Media

Genre

Science Fiction, Action

Budget

$170 000 000

Revenue

$387 300 138

Website

http://www.godzillamovie.com

Director

Michael Dougherty

Actors

Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, Zhang Ziyi, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, Aisha Hinds
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Scenario

Producer

Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Alex Garcia, Mary Parent, Brian Rogers, Julian Fleming, Barry H. Waldman, Roy Lee, Dan Lin, Yoshimitsu Banno

Operator

Lawrence Sher

Composer

Bear McCreary

Artist

Marlie Arnold, Brittany Hites

Audition

Sarah Halley Finn

Editing

Bob Ducsay, Richard Pearson, Roger Barton
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• While working on Ghidorah's appearance, director and screenwriter Michael Dougherty wanted to create something "unique," but still reminiscent of Ghidorah. That's why he constantly consulted with specialists from Toho Studios to ensure the monster's new look remained recognizable. He also studied images of various reptiles, especially the king cobra, to add realism to Ghidorah.
• The Godzilla corpse found at the beginning of the film was originally planned to be discovered in Siberia, not the Philippines, but this idea was changed due to a similar scene in Zack Snyder's science fiction action film "Man of Steel" (2013), where Henry Cavill's character finds a Kryptonian starship frozen in ice. The creators of that film reworked the scene, and frozen King Ghidorah is discovered in Antarctica.
• Mothra's cry in the film is a processed version of the cries of the same monster in the original Toho Studios films.
• Near Godzilla's underwater temple, a skeleton can be seen. It is the skeleton of Anguirus, who sided with Godzilla in some films.
• When working on Mothra's appearance, Michael Dougherty wanted to create something, in his own words, "beautiful, feminine and elegant, but at the same time potentially dangerous, looking like a goddess." Dougherty tried to adhere to the color palette of Mothra's image from the 1961 film ("Mothra," Ishiro Honda) and leave similar eye-like spots on the wings. The latter were specifically given a shape that resembles Godzilla's eyes, thus emphasizing the connection between the monsters. Mothra resembles a real moth, and her legs are long enough to defend against other monsters.
• Michael Dougherty came up with the idea to add Behemoth to the plot (in biblical mythology, this is a demon of carnal desires, especially gluttony) and made him a companion to Kong, because he believed that too many monsters from the “Toho” studio were reptiles and insects. He based it on a mammoth – due to his own fascination with mammoths and because he needed a huge, hairy creature whose appearance would show that it could survive an ice age. Initially, Behemoth was a giant mammoth with six tusks.