WEBVTT - TIME CAPSULE: Godzilla and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:20.200 That was my attempt to make a Godzilla so out. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.320 My name is Jason Concepcion. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:25.279 And I'm Rthy Knight. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:30.680 And welcome to a bite sized, but a giant kid 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:34.199 you mouth bite sized episode of x RA revision of 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:38.480 the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:39.919 and pop culture. 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:43.040 In this episode, we have been waiting to talk about it. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.120 You guys are waiting to hear it. It's everything Godzilla. 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.760 There's been a lot of Godzilla since we were lost 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.600 in yours, so we had to talk about all of it. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:53.120 Folks. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:57.440 You may not know this, but you are lucky enough, 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.480 as am I, to be in the presence today of 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:08.479 a bona fide Godzilla expert, an expert in all things Kaiju, 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.600 in all things giant, nuclear fire breathing lizard. 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:14.720 That is our. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:21.520 Number one Godzilla brainiac. Rosie Night, Rosie, are you ready 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:26.800 to have multiple questions about all the recent Godzilla projects 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:32.360 thrown at you like Tokyo train cars sailing across the 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:33.600 city scape? 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.160 Yes, I am I, as I am an expert. I'm 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.480 speaking in my NPR voice, but yes, no, I'm ready 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.720 throw those train cars at me. I'm wearing my Manila, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:48.600 son of Godzilla Tisha. Just to prove my expertise and 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.840 I'm ready to answer all your Godzilla questions. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.680 Here are the projects which we will be discussing today 0:01:56.400 --> 0:02:00.680 on Apple TV. Plus Monarch Legacy of Monster created by 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.680 Matt Fraction and Chris Black. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.400 We have the Oscar. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.320 Winning film Godzilla Minus one from Toho Studios, written and 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:15.240 directed by Takashi Yamazaki, recently released in theaters. Godzilla ex 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.000 King Kong New Empire Well from Legendary Pictures, directed by 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.239 Adam Wingard, is the sequel to Godzilla Versus cong part 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:28.320 of the Monster Verse. And then on the comic side, Oh, 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.200 it will be plug time Godzilla Monster Island Summer Camp 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:37.720 on IDW, of course, written by Rosie Knight, art by 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:42.200 Oliver Ono, letters and colors by Jody Trautman and Nick Barrita. 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:46.840 Who Next, we're gonna dive into our recap of Apple 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.040 TV's Monarch Legacy of Monsters. But first some news. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.960 Seeing as it is the seventieth anniversary of Godzilla, we 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.200 are getting a smorgas board of Godzilla news. First, a 0:02:57.240 --> 0:03:00.840 baby Godzilla sized news update. I'm sad about this one 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.840 because I spoke to him and he told me what 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.280 his plans were for the next movie, and it sounded amazing. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.959 But Adam Wingar, director and co writer of Godzilla X. 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.280 Kong or Godzilla Kong as you're supposed to say it, 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.840 the New Empire and Godzilla Versus Kong, will not be 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.200 helming the third movie. It's not because of anything scary 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.079 or bad. It's just because he's making a movie called Onslaught, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:26.000 not to do with Marvel, and it means the schedules 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.400 clash because obviously New Empire is a huge success and 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.280 I'm sure Legendary just wants to make the movie now. 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.720 Also today, this is a big one if you like it, 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.880 if you're an indie gamer, if you've been playing these games, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.280 Mint Rocket's award winning game Dave the Diver is getting 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.800 a brand new Godzilla theme DLCs. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:41.480 Didn't see that. 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.880 One coming, love it. Excited to see it. The DLC 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.440 is completely free, but only available to play for a 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.520 limited time May twenty third till November twenty third due 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.360 to licensing rights with Toho, which I will say is 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.760 exciting because that probably means Toho is planning on some 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.080 kind of Godzilla video game, because why else would they 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:59.800 limit it otherwise, So I would like to see that. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.360 And what will you do in the game. You will 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.000 help an injured Godzilla about the deep sea Kaiju a bearer, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.000 a bearer who may or may not appear in my 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.560 upcoming graphic novel Monster in Summer Camp. He's like a shrimp, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:13.720 basically giant shrimp. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.400 Now, pre order it now and you will get to 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.200 have some new gameplay with a submarine. 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:21.679 And it looks really fun. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.520 That is a game, a beautiful pick slurk game of 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:30.360 the kind of cutesy, relaxing game genre where you basically 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.080 dive in the ocean and then run a sushi restaurant. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.599 So I wonder if will Godzilla help you acquire fish 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:38.600 for the restaurant? 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:39.200 Kaiju? 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.640 She who's to say? 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.039 Okay, let's dive into our recap for Apple TV's Monarch 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:53.279 Legacy of Monsters. Okay, tell us about this Godzilla project. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.320 It is actually like hard to put in toowards how 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:58.400 good this show is. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:04.120 It is it It's unbelievably good. And basically it sets 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:05.800 one year. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:09.480 After the legendary Monster Verse Godzilla movie, which came out 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.719 in twenty fourteen and starred Aaron Taylor. Johnson and Brian 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.680 Cranston momentarily. And so this is set in twenty fifteen, 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.840 and you're basically living in the wake of what they 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:23.560 call g Day and you have our hero is played 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.479 by Anna Sui who plays Kate Randa, you might recognize 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:32.000 that surname, and she goes off to find her father 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:37.120 in Japan, who was a Monarch agent, and she discovers 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:39.120 he had a secret family and she has a half 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:43.359 brother called Kentaro, and as they investigate where their father 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:48.960 hero she has gone, they get entangled in this incredible 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:56.799 adventure alongside Monarch, including the wonderfully eccentric and ageless Monarch 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.599 agent k Russell as me. So that's kind of your 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.400 modern day. And then the fantastic thing about this show 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.200 is it is told within two timelines. So then you 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:10.599 have Wyatt Russell playing youngle in the fifties and you 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.800 sort of get to see how Monarch evolved and how 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:19.400 it became the militarized anti Kaiju unit that it is today, 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:25.240 and how its origins were actually so much more evolved 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:30.919 and holistic. It was more about disinvestigating the kaiju and 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:33.440 learning about them rather than or as they called in 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.320 the Monster Verse, the Titans, and it is honestly just 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:40.240 blew me away. So Matt Fraction obviously big comic book name. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.520 There also a lot of the team. We had Marico Tamaki, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.360 another legendary comic book creator. So this was just such 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.280 a delightful show and the reveals as they go through 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.080 a fantastic Now. I will say, if you love a 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.400 big monster smashing things up, this might not necessarily immediately 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.839 appeal to you, because the monster action is secondary to 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.560 the human action. But if you love a good drama, 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.600 and you love a family intrigue, and you love Anna 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.160 Sawai because you have been watching Shogun, one of the 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.760 best shows of the last decade, then this is such 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.320 a fantastic show to watch. And it does build out 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.480 a lot of what we know about the Monster Verse 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:24.640 in this interesting time period kind of post Godzilla and 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.280 then pre the rest of the films in the Monster Verse. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:33.200 Also starring Shogun's tech a hero hero oh as ANSI's father, 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.560 mysterious father. What has he been up to? 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.360 What's he been up to? Hiroshi Randa, what are you doing? 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:39.360 What's going on? 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:40.240 Yeah? 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.240 It's so good and Tamlin Tamta is in it as 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.000 Kate Randers as Caroline Rander, who's Kate Randers mum so 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:52.600 Karai kid legend. There there's so many fantastic actors, but 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:56.160 one of my favorite people in the whole show is 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.520 Kei Ko, who is the scientist who is essentially the 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.880 founder of Monarch with Bill Randa and Lee Shaw, and 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.559 there's a fantastic love triangle element there, and she's played 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.840 by Marie Amamoto. And the emotional human stories they tell 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.040 in this are mind blowing, especially because everyone knows, especially 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.160 in the American Godzilla films, the human stories are not 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.480 always the best, so yeah, so this really contradicts that. 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.720 It also kind of acts as a bit of a 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.240 response to the criticisms that people have had about how 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.240 the American Godzilla films are often like we're the Army 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.720 and we're gonna kill Godzilla and then that's kind and 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.240 this is a really kind of more interesting hard sci 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.840 fi and it has Kissey Clemmens, who I also love, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.760 who's fantastic and she gets a really interesting role here 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.160 as kind of like a hacker. And yeah, it's just 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.080 one of the best TV shows I watched in the 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:53.720 last year. It's really fantastic you know what I really 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:58.439 appreciate it is it's obviously a tie in project, right 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.200 you mentioned comes after it's set in the timeline after. 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:05.679 Twenty fourteen's Godzilla movie. You have some tie ins to 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:07.559 cong Skull Island. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.080 But you don't have to have seen any of that stuff, 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.760 Like this is a standalone story. If you've seen that stuff, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.400 those times are going to be like, oh wow, that's cool. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.680 But if you haven't, don't worry about it, because this 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:28.400 is just a interesting espionage family drama set in the 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:29.400 Godzilla universe. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:32.640 Yeah, I think something that I spoke to Chris Black, Yeah, 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.959 I think I'd speak to him five gen I spoke Chris, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.440 I did it. But the interesting thing there is like 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:44.920 he I think he talked about it being like a 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.480 ground up view Like when we watch these movies, it's 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.040 often from the Godzilla perspective. You're smashing things things a 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.720 black but this is all about looking up at the 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.280 monsters and what would it be like if you lived 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.000 in a world. We get to see things like in 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:03.240 Japan they have Godzilla siren raids to practice for if 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.880 he's going to come, and and there are little things 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.840 about life living under a kind of Titan or Kaiju 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.839 threat that is really interestingly built out here in a 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.880 kind of slice of life grounded way that I think 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:18.760 really adds to the films. 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.480 The other thing I really liked as well, and it's 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.760 a thing that our next project that we're going to 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.920 discuss also shares, is that they brought the fear home 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:31.080 in Monarch Legacy of Monsters, the PTSD that you would 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:36.760 have from witnessing one of these attacks, and there's so 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:39.160 much fear in our next project. Let's move to the 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:43.000 movie theater with Godzilla minus one Toho Studios, written and 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:48.240 directed by Takashi Yamazaki, winner of course of the Oscar 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:51.400 for Best Special Effects. And the thing that stands out 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:56.240 to me from Godzilla minus one is the screaming. There's 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.920 the there's so and it's absolutely appropriate. 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.560 Characters in this movie are. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:10.559 Like throat, raw screaming with fear all the time shaking 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.760 because it is the scariest thing you've ever seen. This 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:19.120 is like Godzilla and authentic Godzilla at its scariest. Set 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.280 in the post World War Two, the years directly following 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:29.760 World War Two, Japan under American occupation and Godzilla emerges. 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.360 Tell us about Godzilla minus one. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:33.440 Yeah, I mean you summed it up perfectly. The title 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:37.200 minus one is because after World War Two and the 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:41.480 horrific attacks on Japan, Japan was at zero. It had 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.360 to rebuild. And then this is imagining what is worse 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.400 than zero. It's if Godzilla emerges and just as you're 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.600 trying to rebuild, you have to deal with this in terrifying, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.520 entirely new threat. This is very much in the mold 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.120 of the nineteen fifty four original Godzilla. It's Godzilla as 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.240 a threat of war. Godzilla is a threat of nuclear war. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.439 Godzilla as this monstrous form that is going to force 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.800 you to face up to your fears and discover how 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.400 you feel about your family and your country, and something 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:15.720 that I found just totally. Also, I just have to 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.640 say to Kashi Yamazaki, the director and writer. He was 0:12:19.679 --> 0:12:20.240 also head of. 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:25.920 The FX, so he's crazy hats every hat and he 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.960 did this on a budget of ten to twelve million. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:30.440 You have, I mean that part of it. 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.840 There's only a few moments where you're like, there's a 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:37.840 scene with you know, an elevated train moving across Tokyo 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.120 where you're like, okay, I can kind of see it, 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:42.760 but the rest of the time one hundred percent. You 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.000 never feel any kind of budgetary constriction at all. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.600 Looks fantastic, Yeah, And I think like one of the 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.040 most one of the things again that this does that. 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.280 As we're talking about that Monarch does that. These movies 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.040 have often been critiqued for even some of the Japanese movies, 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.760 though I often love the human characters in those, this 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.839 movie he has a really strong human storyline, which is 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.839 Koichi is a he's a kamikazi pilot and he basically 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:12.240 is too scared to do his duty for his country. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.120 And he says his plane is malfunctioning, and he lands 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.400 on an island to have it fixed, and he sees 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:22.440 an attack by Godzilla and it's terrifying and he can't 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.080 bring himself to shoot it because he kind of has PTSD. 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:29.280 And there is a lot of rumination and exploration here 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.480 of PTSD and the cost of war. And something I 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.880 actually found really powerful in this movie is there is 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:41.040 a lot of critique of the Japanese government and the 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.160 way that soldiers are treated and the way that war 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.640 is approached, and there is this really beautiful found family storyline, 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.760 and all of that makes these Godzilla attacks even more 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.160 terrifying because you actually care about the people who might 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:59.000 be harmed, and it makes the success or the fight 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:03.520 against Godzilla incredibly rip roaring, and everyone in the cinema 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.559 is kind of cheering, and you got grown men just 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.720 crying in the cinema. This is a very emotional movie 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.040 and I just thought it's fantastic. I mean, this is Look, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.920 the last Japanese Godzilla movie was Shing Godzilla, which is 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.800 widely seen as one of the best Godzilla movies, but 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:25.600 it is very experimental. The design of Godzilla is extremely strange. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:29.960 It has different evolutions, some of which are incredibly grotesque, 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.040 and a lot of the movie, as is the way 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:36.560 with a lot of recent Japanese Godzilla movies, is set 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.120 focused on humans because of budgetary constraints, so a lot 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.360 of it is like the bureaucracy of Japan trying to 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.440 deal with this new Godzilla attack. And it's seems still 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.600 as a highlight in the sphere, but it's very much 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.800 I think for Godzilla fans or fans of cinema in 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:58.080 that kind of mold. This movie is so blockbuster, huge 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.720 event film that that's why it ended up up becoming 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.400 you know, this smash hit, making over one hundred million 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.880 dollars at the box office at the fifth highest grossing 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.960 Japanese film of twenty twenty three and one of the 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.040 highest grossing Japanese films ever in America. And it is 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.720 just so incredible. And the thing that's very interesting here 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.160 is we get to see Godzilla as he was, and 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:23.920 then we get to see Godilla post this new clear bomb, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:28.840 and it is really just such a fantastic, wonderful movie. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.960 And it doesn't rely on you know, oh this other monster, 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.520 isn't it, or oh, this you know Cameo or this connection. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:40.040 This is a straight down the line disaster movie. And 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.480 what they achieved with it and that fear and the 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.960 sound design is so spectacular, and I'm not surprised it 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.560 became a huge success. I think that's just absolutely justified. 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.360 I think this movie is the platonic ideal of how 0:15:53.400 --> 0:16:00.560 you present the monster. The evolution of all of the 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.160 set piece scenes to the end when you start seeing 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.200 Godzilla in the in the stark daylight, like all of 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.680 him is amazing, and you start with like in shadow 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.360 you don't know what's going on, and. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:15.680 Of the body. 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:19.800 Yeah, just the big foot coming down and smashing jeeps 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.920 and things like what's going on? Then you have what 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.040 I think is clearly an homage Jaws. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.960 Where you see portion, you see a portion of. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.760 The of Godzilla, but what you see is absolutely terrifying. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.920 And then you know in the final set pieces, there 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.720 he is, and he's in the city and he's kicking trains. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:42.920 Across the cityscape. 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:46.440 Just incredible, an unbelievable achievement. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:17:01.800 We'll be right back after a quick break, and we're back. 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:06.560 We move to the other film, another entry into the 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:11.200 Monster Verse Godzilla Verse, King Kong New Empire, a sequel 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:16.359 to the King Kong franchise and the Godzilla franchise tie 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.640 in Godzilla Versus Kong by Legendary Pictures, directed by Adam Winguard. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:24.760 Tell us about this newest entry into the Monster Verse, 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:29.800 and will Godzilla minus one ever cross over the Monster 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.760 Verse over Kire or do those two things are are 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:34.040 they just forever separate? 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.639 I think that's an interesting question, So I will first 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.359 explain so as I have learned, so this is a 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:43.240 hilarious trend. The title for this movie is Godzilla x. 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.119 Kong The New Empire, but you don't pronounce the X, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.880 I got told that an official press release. So it's 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.680 Godzilla Kong the New Empire. Okay, So now I did 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.880 a really fun press junkit for this five G and 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.720 as Brian Tyree Henry said, the ex implies that they 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.399 do like a collab. You know, they're not. It's not 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.520 Masses anymore right now, they're teaming up. You know, they're bros. Like, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.280 it's not it's not who's going to win in a fight, 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.600 it's who are they going to fight against? So if 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.520 you didn't know, Godzilla Versus Kong came out during COVID 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.240 was actually a massive success. Even though it was day 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.240 to day on HBO. It ended up making I think 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.840 like forty or fifty million dollars, which for COVID times 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.119 was really good, especially when people could stream it at home. 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.800 That was also directed by Adam Wingard. It was a 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.960 hard sci fi kind of turn, had a lot of 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.119 bisexual lighting. They were going into the center of the earth. 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.000 Alex Scarless God was in it. It was totally out there 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.720 and people just really responded to it in a way 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:42.280 that I don't even think Legendary was expecting. So this 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.280 is a sequel to that, and Essentially you have Rebecca 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.040 Hall who's returning, Brian Harry Henry who's returning, Kaylee Hottle 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:53.600 who plays this young character called Jea who communicates with 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.199 Kong and lived with him on Skull Island, And this 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:02.280 is essentially just a completely that shit crazy sci fi movie. 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:08.119 Dan Stevens plays a Titan vet as in a veterinarian 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:11.240 for Titans, and we meet him when he swings down 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:16.880 to do to extract a bad tooth that Kong has, 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.000 And essentially the status quo that we have is Kong 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.520 lives in the Hollow Earth. So in this the Hollow 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.160 Earth conspiracies are real. The Hollow Earth which was found 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.280 by Bill Randa, who is the grandparent of the Randa 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:33.680 kids from Monarch, and Kong lives in the Hollow Earth, 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:37.639 and Godzilla lives on the surface world and in the seas, 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.480 and he is basically there to stop any Titan catastrophes, 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.200 but he's still like causing problems, Like Godzilla's like going 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.879 to sleep in the Colisseum and he's not. You know, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:48.800 I would be happy if he was here, but not 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.320 everyone's happy he's here. So Monic is kind of dealing 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.280 with these two different worlds, and they have to go 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:59.320 back into the Hollow Earth to get Kong to team 0:19:59.400 --> 0:20:02.000 up with Godzilla against this new threat, which is a 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:07.840 giant ape called the scar King, and he rules over 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:12.479 this kind of indentured servitude race of apes in the 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:14.399 depths of the Hollow Earth, and he's been trying to 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:16.840 get to the surface world to take it over. And 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:20.320 this is a really fun throwback. It's definitely I spoke 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:23.200 to Adam Wingard a couple of times, who's a fantastic director. 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:27.400 He directed a lot of cool horror movies. He directed 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:29.919 The Guest, which is so fantastic with Dan Stevens, so 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:32.120 this is a little bit of a reunion for them. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.359 And this is very much inspired by the later Shower 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:39.720 era Godzilla movies. It's those wacky, campy fun stories that 0:20:39.800 --> 0:20:42.760 you remember when you're a kid. Everything that happens in 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:48.080 this movie is a bombastic surprise. You get unexpected monsters 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.080 who show up, we get some really cool law building. 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:54.359 Gea gets a really focused role, which I love because 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.359 Kayley Hole is a fantastic young deaf actress and it's 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.840 awesome to see her leading this franch Kong also gets 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:06.560 a cool robotic arm called his Beast Arm, which is 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.399 like completely bonkers, and it's just I think something that 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.320 I really love that I've seen the internet embrace if 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:15.840 you are a Godzilla fan, Godzilla's been around since nineteen 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:19.760 fifty four, right, there are so many different versions of Godzilla. 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:24.440 Manilla is a campy, silly version. You have this most 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:31.080 obvious original Godzilla movie is an unbelievably dark and reflective 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.439 treatise on the horrors of war. But you can also 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:39.159 have mecha Godzilla fighting King Gnora in space, you know. 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:43.359 So what's fantastic is to see people understand that Godzilla 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.560 minus one can exist and it can make a ton 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.640 of money, and it can be this really heartfelt, fantastic 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:51.760 masterpiece that wins Oscars, and two months later you can 0:21:51.760 --> 0:21:54.240 have Godzilla Kong the New Empire come out and you 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:55.280 can enjoy both of them. 0:21:55.600 --> 0:21:58.280 And that's actually the point of these movies and the 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:00.840 power of what Godzilla can do is you can tell 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.000 so many different stories within this world and that's why 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.639 it has been keeping people so engaged for you know, 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:11.520 seven decades, And I think that's what's really cool. 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:14.119 And at first I saw a lot of memes of 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.360 people being like, oh, it's gonna look so bad after 0:22:16.400 --> 0:22:18.320 Godzilla Minus one, and then I kind of sort of 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.320 started to see people change their minds and be like, 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:23.000 you can enjoy both guys, Like you can have the 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:25.880 point of the Godzilla franchises, you can have all these 0:22:25.920 --> 0:22:29.040 different versions. So in that case, I've been very happy 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.720 to see people embrace that, and this was a huge success. 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:36.199 So I think we can expect to see another movie 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:39.159 in wing Guards part of the Monster Verse. And he 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.720 did tell me that his hope if he did a 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:44.879 third one of these films would be to do for 0:22:44.920 --> 0:22:47.000 Godzilla what he did for Kong here and what he 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:48.679 did for Cong here was kind of look at his 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:51.520 roots and find him a family and kind of give 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.359 him that role as king. So I think for the 0:22:54.400 --> 0:22:56.440 next Monster Verse movie, if we do get one, which 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.280 is quite likely, I think this is almost its overfour 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:03.800 one hundred mens dollars already, we'll get that big Godzilla 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.560 story where Godzilla is the focus and we learn about 0:23:06.560 --> 0:23:11.800 Godzilla's origins in this legendary monster use and. 0:23:11.760 --> 0:23:15.399 Then finally we go to the comic space in the 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:22.480 longtime home of the Godzilla ip idw it's trushing and 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:28.240 the comic Godzilla Monster Island Summer Camp written by none 0:23:28.240 --> 0:23:31.280 other than yourself, with art by the wonderful Olive Oil. 0:23:31.359 --> 0:23:32.120 Oh He's amazing. 0:23:33.080 --> 0:23:37.639