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{Gizmodo] How Buddy Cops and the Shaw Brothers Influenced Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
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How Buddy Cops and the Shaw Brothers Influenced Godzilla x Kong: The New
Empire
Cheryl Eddy
February 16, 2024 at 7:30 am
In 2021, it was Godzilla versus Kong. But Godzilla x Kong: The New
Empire sees the foes team up—reluctantly—to take on a new threat. The
dynamic between them might be unfamiliar based on what we’ve seen in the
Monsterverse so far, but movie fans may recognize its origins in… ‘80s
buddy-cop movies?
Speaking to Empire Magazine, director Adam Wingard (who also made
Godzilla vs. Kong) revealed his love of buddy-cop movies like 1987’s
Lethal Weapon, explaining, “My influences are always embedded with the
‘80s.” How does that come into play in Godzilla x Kong? At the start of
the film, “There’s a bit of a truce—Godzilla’s in control of the surface
world and Kong is down in Hollow Earth.” When Skar King, the film’s new
villain, threatens to disrupt this tenuous peace, the monsters must join
forces to defeat him. “The buddy-cop dysfunctional relationship dynamic
is probably the best one to describe Godzilla and Kong,” Wingard said.
“There’s a lot of misunderstanding—the way that the monsters communicate
isn’t straightforward.”
Wingard also teases “a personal journey” for Kong and that the movie
will feature “lots of different versions of Godzilla,” brought about by
what sounds like another ‘80s special: the training montage. However,
Wingard’s influences go even further back in film history. “I’m really
big into Shaw Brothers martial arts. Those films are always about,
‘Here’s a big threat, and you have to do all these things to pump
yourself up so that you can take on that threat.’”
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire—which also has a human cast that
includes Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and Dan Stevens—arrives March 29.
How Buddy Cops and the Shaw Brothers Influenced Godzilla x Kong: The New
Empire
Cheryl Eddy
February 16, 2024 at 7:30 am
In 2021, it was Godzilla versus Kong. But Godzilla x Kong: The New
Empire sees the foes team up—reluctantly—to take on a new threat. The
dynamic between them might be unfamiliar based on what we’ve seen in the
Monsterverse so far, but movie fans may recognize its origins in… ‘80s
buddy-cop movies?
Speaking to Empire Magazine, director Adam Wingard (who also made
Godzilla vs. Kong) revealed his love of buddy-cop movies like 1987’s
Lethal Weapon, explaining, “My influences are always embedded with the
‘80s.” How does that come into play in Godzilla x Kong? At the start of
the film, “There’s a bit of a truce—Godzilla’s in control of the surface
world and Kong is down in Hollow Earth.” When Skar King, the film’s new
villain, threatens to disrupt this tenuous peace, the monsters must join
forces to defeat him. “The buddy-cop dysfunctional relationship dynamic
is probably the best one to describe Godzilla and Kong,” Wingard said.
“There’s a lot of misunderstanding—the way that the monsters communicate
isn’t straightforward.”
Wingard also teases “a personal journey” for Kong and that the movie
will feature “lots of different versions of Godzilla,” brought about by
what sounds like another ‘80s special: the training montage. However,
Wingard’s influences go even further back in film history. “I’m really
big into Shaw Brothers martial arts. Those films are always about,
‘Here’s a big threat, and you have to do all these things to pump
yourself up so that you can take on that threat.’”
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire—which also has a human cast that
includes Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and Dan Stevens—arrives March 29.
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