Empire has released a new image from Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire and has a interview with the films director, Adam Wingard.
When talking about the tone of the film, Wingard compared it to the buddy cop films of the ’80s, citing Lethal Weapon as his favourite of the genre.
There’s a bit of a truce – Godzilla’s in control of the surface world and Kong is down in Hollow Earth. It wasn’t, ‘Okay, give me a call when something goes wrong, Kong. And I, Godzilla, will rush to the rescue!
The buddy-cop dysfunctional relationship dynamic is probably the best one to describe Godzilla and Kong. My influences are always embedded with the ‘80s, and the ‘80s were prime for [that] storyline. There’s a lot of misunderstanding – the way that the monsters communicate isn’t straightforward.
Adam Wingard/Empire
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire stars Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Kaylee Hottle, Dan Stevens, Alex Ferns and Fala Chen and is released on 12th April.
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