{"id":40107,"date":"2017-03-11T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40107"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:40:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:40:38","slug":"godzilla-kong-writers-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/11\/godzilla-kong-writers-room\/","title":{"rendered":"GODZILLA VS KONG Gets A Writers Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Kong<\/strong> rampaging through theaters and the box office this weekend and the sequel to 2014’s Godzilla<\/strong>, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters<\/strong>, in active pre-production, Legendary is now turning their eye to what will be the fourth film in their MonsterVerse franchise – Godzilla Vs Kong<\/strong>. The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> is stating that producers have opened up a writer’s room for the project and have stocked it with some rather interesting names.<\/p>\n

Heading up the room is Terry Rossio, perhaps best known for co-writing with his former writing partner Terry Elliot the original Pirates Of The Caribbean<\/strong> trilogy for Disney. Rossio also brings with him some expertise in giant monsters with him having also co-written with Elliot a draft for a US Godzilla<\/strong> remake back in the 1990s with Jan De Bont was scheduled to direct. Unfortunately, that draft was jettisoned after De Bont left to go do Twister<\/strong> and Independence Day<\/strong> director Roland Emmerich came on board. Their resulting film, which starred Matthew Broderick, was not as good as the film promised by the Rossio-Elliot draft.<\/p>\n

Also working on hammering out the film’s plot points are Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, co-writers on Star Trek Beyond<\/strong> and the upcoming Star Trek 4<\/strong>, Lindsey Beer, currently at work adapting author Patrick Rothfuss’s The Kingkiller Chronicles<\/em> for Lionsgate, Cat Vasko, who is working on the period circus love story Queen Of The Air<\/strong> which has Margot Robbie attached, Maze Runner<\/strong> franchise and Pacific Rim 2<\/strong> scribe T.S. Nowlin, Jack Paglen, who worked on the upcoming Alien: Covenant<\/strong>, and J Michael Straczynski, creator of the TV series Babylon 5<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While all these names seem like good choices with solid experience in genre films to have participating in this conversation, the one that excites me the most is Straczynski’s. I am a long fan of Babylon 5<\/em> and consider it one of the finest achievements not only in genre storytelling on television but outside of its genre categorization as well. Additionally, his rejected drafts<\/a> adapting Max Brooks zombie novel World War Z<\/em> hewed much closer to the spirit and tone of the source material than the final film did. Additionally, Straczynski has credits on a number of varied genre offerings from the first of Marvel’s Thor<\/strong> films to Underworld: Awakening<\/strong> his collaboration with the Wachowskis on the Nextflix series Sense8<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As interconnected franchise films become more of a standard for studios, it is interesting to see that they are adapting the television model of the writer room. Paramount has already done this with both their Transformer<\/strong>s franchise and the series of movies they hope to make based on a number of other toy properties from Hasbro. Universal also had a writers room dedicated to plotting out the story arc that will run through their own Monsters franchise that kicks off with this summer’s The Mummy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As is becoming the standard for these writers room, after everyone helps to hammer out the story beats for Godzilla Vs Kong<\/strong>, one writer will be selected to work on the actual screenplay draft.<\/p>\n

Currently, Godzilla: King Of The Monsters<\/strong> is set for a March 22, 2019 release with Krampus<\/strong> director Michael Dougherty helming and also co-writing the screenplay with Godzilla<\/strong> and Kong: Skull Island<\/strong> scribe Max Borenstein. Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown are set to star.<\/p>\n

Godzilla Vs Kong<\/strong> is set for release on May 29, 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The studio gathers a number of writers to hammer out details of the upcoming titanic tussle. <\/div>\n

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