Why Godzilla Vs. Kong Is Much Shorter Than Most Big Budget Blockbusters, According To The Director

Godzilla Vs. Kong - It's become fairly common practice these days for big movies to have big run times. Avengers: Endgame was more than three hours long, and Marvel movies regularly run over two hours. For Zack Snyder to complete his version of Justice League he needed more than four hours. So, if one was making a movie where two of the most popular monsters of all time went head-to-head, you might expect that movie to be quite long. Instead, Godzilla Vs. Kong is slightly less than two hours long, but director Adam Wingard doesn't have a problem with that.

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Both the previous Godzilla films in this franchise, 2014's Godzilla and Godzilla: King of the Monsters clock in at over two hours. Kong: Skull Island is two minutes short of the two hour mark. This makes Godzilla vs. Kong, which clocks in at a reported one hour and 53 minutes, the shortest movie in the franchise so far. But don't expect Adam Wingard to get his own "Snyder Cut" as he tells Variety that the movie is exactly as long as he wants it to be, and fans hoping for more likely wouldn't get what they were looking for if it was any longer. According to Wingard...

So if you were hoping for a three hour long movie, you aren't going to get it when Godzilla vs. Kong opens next week, or possibly ever, as the sub-two hour version is exactly the movie director Adam Wingard was trying to make. It sounds like he's generally not a an of longer movies and feels that in many cases films over two hours probably didn't need to be that long.

And if we're all honest, if a longer movie is only going to give us more scenes of people talking about monsters, which would certainly be the case, then none of us really need a longer movie, right? We're all here to see the monsters fighting, and as long as we get a lot of that in our two hour flick, it's all good.

And that's actually where the two hour movie works better. The same amount of action in a three hour film is just going to have to spread that action over a longer period, but here, it will all be more compact, and likely make ever

ything move at a much faster pace, making the movie seem even shorter than it is.

Watch Kong Slam Godzilla Right In The Face In First Godzilla Vs. Kong Trailer
Godzilla and King Kong are, without any hyperbole, true icons of cinema. Their respective introductions in the 20th century forever changed the way that people look at the art form, and their legends will forever live in pop culture history. Some of their legacy is even shared, as they previously went toe-to-toe in 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla – but nearly 60 years later it’s time for a rematch, and today we’ve received our first real look at it. As you’ll discover above, the trailer for Godzilla vs. Kong is here.

The wait for this one has been weirdly long, as fans will remember that its first release date was in March 2020, but soon your patience will be rewarded. Like all of the other films of Warner Bros.’ 2021 slate, Godzilla vs. Kong will be getting a day-and-date release theatrically and digitally. It will be playing on a big screen where available and also streaming on HBO Max at the end of March.

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As depicted in the trailer, Godzilla vs. Kong will be set after the events of Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island, and Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, and will find humanity counting on the giant gorilla during a time of crisis. Something seems to be provoking the atomic monster, turning it into a serious danger, and there is belief that Kong may be the only creature that can grapple with it. At the same time, further research is done into the history of these massive titans on Earth, and new information is brought to light about an epic war that preceded humanity.

Kyle Chandler and Millie Bobby Brown are reprising their roles from Godzilla: King Of The Monsters, the first two back playing father-daughter duo Dr. Mark Russell and Madison Russell (Zhang Ziyi will be back as well, though she is curiously absent from this footage). They are joined by a ton of great franchise newcomers. Alexander Skarsgard, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Eiza Gonzalez, Jessica Henwick, Julian Dennison, and Demian Bichir play the rest of the key roles among the humans, but we all know who the real stars of the show are in a movie titled Godzilla vs. Kong

It definitely looks like the blockbuster will be delivering plenty of monster battles, with the titular creatures duking it out both at sea and on land – and while we don’t have the answer of “how” just yet, it looks like the franchise has definitely solved its size differential problem. King Kong stood at a little over 100 feet tall in Kong: Skull Island, but he’s experienced a serious growth spurt in the decades since those events, as he is now able to look Godzilla right in the eye when he’s throwing fists:

The answer to how King Kong is now about five times larger is one of many questions that we’re dying for the movie to answer, and following this preview it’s almost time to experience the full thing. Directed by Adam Wingard (You’re Next, The Guest) and written by Eric Pearson (Thor: Ragnarok) and Max Borenstein (Godzilla), Godzilla vs. Kong will be playing on the big screen and on HBO Max starting March 26.

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