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We’re now a couple weeks out from Kong: Skull Island, the 2nd installment of Legendary’s proposed “Monster-Universe” of films. For those not in the know, this is a planned shared universe of giant monsters movies that’s been in the works for a while now. The concept originated with Legendary’s desire to reboot Godzilla for the modern blockbuster age when they came across the script for Pacific Rim. They like some of the concepts but ultimately ended up deciding to make a Marvel-style shared universe instead. The first installment in this was 2014’s Godzilla, directed by Garreth Edwards, which wasn’t great.
However, Kong: Skull Island looks fresh and Godzilla: King of Monsters is showing a lot of promise, bringing in Michael Dougherty, director of Krampus and Trick r Treat, as a new director along with three classic monsters in Rodan, Mothra, and Ghidorah. All of this is leading up to an eventual King Kong vs. Godzilla remake, though there’s plenty of room for franchise expansion beyond that. That subject of franchise development is what I’m here to talk about today with 8 classic Toho Kaiju who should appear next in the giant monster-verse.
