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Director Michael Dougherty co-wrote and directed Godzilla: King of the Monsters, an American monster film released in 2019. As the third installment in Legendary's MonsterVerse, and the 35th overall in the Godzilla series, this is also the third Godzilla film to be entirely produced by a Hollywood company. Aisha Hinds, O'Shea Jackson, Jr., David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe and Zhang Ziyi are among the cast members of the film. Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown also feature. To confront King Ghidorah, who has reawakened Rodan and other Titans to wipe out the human race, the characters in the movie must depend on Godzilla and Mothra.

Godzilla's first weekend box office brought good news for the sequel, which will be directed by Gareth Edwards again. Edwards stepped down from the project in May 2016. The script was rewritten by Dougherty and Shields in October 2016. Dougherty was officially named director in January of 2017 and has been in the role ever since. In June 2017, filming started in Atlanta, Georgia, and concluded up in September of the same year. Yoshimitsu Banno, director of Godzilla vs. Hedorah, and original Godzilla suit actor Haruo Nakajima, both of whom passed away in 2017, are honored in the film's dedication.

It looks like Ghidorah is going to kill Godzilla when Mothra sacrifices herself and gives Godzilla her energy. To get Godzilla away from Ghidorah, Mark, Emma, and Madison come back together. They reactivate the Orca to do this. In order to help Mark, Madison, and the Monarch team escape, Emma gives herself up. Godzilla gets into a new, more powerful state and defeats Ghidorah. Rodan and the other Titans all come together and bow to Godzilla, which makes Godzilla very happy.

Legendary will remain at Universal Pictures but will work with Warner Bros. on the property. Edwards departed the sequel to focus on smaller-scale projects soon after Warner Bros. announced the delay in May 2016.

Including Monarch, Rodan, Mothra and King Ghidorah was Legendary's sole mission. Dougherty and his crew "started over from scratch" when they wrote the screenplay for the film. A rudimentary two-page outline with the story's core rhythms and crude drawings of the characters was Dougherty's starting point. Dougherty and co-writer/executive producer Zach Shields, together with Borenstein, formed a writer's room, which was overseen by Dougherty and Shields. The therapy was built upon by ten authors. After a year of work, the screenplay was finally ready for production.

When Kyle lost faith at the start, Shields said, "Kyle's loss of faith in the beginning, and finding it in this moment when he realizes, you know, God is dead." In Dougherty and Shields' treatment and early drafts, full scenes of the Titans rising after Ghidorah's call were written, but they were later cut because of money. Borenstein had planned to put Mechagodzilla in the movie. However, Dougherty got rid of the character during the development process.

Putting "God in Godzilla" was Dougherty's goal. He loved the concept by Gareth Edwards and Matt Allsopp but wanted to add the dorsal plates from the 1954 version and enlarge the claws and feet to make Godzilla seem more formidable. The director asked the sound design team to make Godzilla's roar sound more like the 1954 version, adding, "I thought the original movie's Godzilla scream was fantastic. I pushed them a little harder to get it closer to the original (1954)."

For Rodan, volcanic rock was added to the scales and skin color to make Rodan look like he could live inside of a volcano, making him look like he could. Dougherty wanted Rodan's design to look like something "Mother Nature could have created." could have made. In order to make the movie, the designers were told to look at birds like vultures, eagles, and hawk. This is because birds are related to dinosaurs, so they should be looked at too. Dougherty said that Rodan was "bit of a rogue...you never quite know where his loyalties lie" You don't know where his loyalties lie. "massive A-bomb" "speed and ferocity." That's what the director said about Rodan, too. Tom Woodruff Jr. and Amalgamated Dynamics came up with the idea for Rodan. First, we made a pre-viz of the Rodan chase scene. We used it to show Legendary how the movie would look.

Dougherty looked into different moth species and found that some looked "scary" and "predatory" The way he wanted to make Mothra look realistic was to make an insectoid, huge creature that looked real from every angle, and especially when it was moving. He didn't want Mothra to look like a moth that had been blown up. Legacy Effects came up with the design for Mothra.

The director urged the design team to keep an Eastern dragon influence for Ghidorah and to avoid any Western dragon influence, adding, "They're not classic western dragons. So that was the plan from the start... We don't want it to resemble a dragon." Ghidorah's design came from Legacy Effects. Dougherty compared Ghidorah to Rip Van Winkle, a character with a sense of curiosity and cruelty. "not part of the natural order." said producer Alex Garcia.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters was released on May 31, 2019, in IMAX, 3D, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, 4DX, and ScreenX formats by Warner Bros. Pictures, except in Japan where it was distributed by Toho. The initial release date for the film was June 8, 2018. However, it was delayed twice, the first time to March 22, 2019, and the second time to its present date of release.

A VIP press screening was conducted at the AMC Century City in Los Angeles on May 17th for members of the media who had been invited to the film's early May screenings.

Emma is now living with Madison while working as a paleobiologist for Monarch (now played by Millie Bobby Brown). Orca is a gadget that can generate frequencies for interacting with Titans, and she has been working on it for some time. For Madison's sake, Mark still attempts to keep in touch with them. Mothra's birth is seen by other scientists at an underground facility in China, which Emma and Madison visit later in the story.

To meet other Monarch employees, the three take Mark with them. They meet sonographer Dr. Rick Stanton (Bradley Whitford), as well as mythologist Dr. Ilene Chen (Ziyi Zhang), as well as G-Team leader Colonel Diane Foster (Aisha Hinds) and Officer Jackson Barnes (O'Shea Jackson, Jr.), as well as other employees. They tell Mark that there are many more Titans than Godzilla, and even though he wants to kill them before they come out (he seems to blame Godzilla for Andrew's death), Monarch doesn't want that to happen.

Jonah brings Emma and Madison to a site where a colossal creature dubbed “Monster Zero” – King Ghidorah – lays encased in solid ice. They set up the Orca to attempt to connect with him, when Monarch and Jonah’s squad inevitably collide. As Madison approaches Mark, Emma takes a detonator, aiming to set off the explosives all around the ice to liberate Ghidorah. She does so, and everyone flees for it. The three-headed beast is liberated and he climbs to the surface.

Not long after, Ghidorah comes in and battles Rodan. He gets the upper hand (or claw) by using his extra heads to take down Rodan, which gives him the upper hand. Until Godzilla comes back for round two, he can't keep going. With Godzilla able to cut Rodan's left head off, they start a new fight again. When Captain William Stenz (David Straithairn) calls Monarch, he tells them that the military is about to launch a huge bomb called the "Oxygen Destroyer" in order to kill the beasts. The bomb hits, but Ghidorah escapes, while it looks as though Godzilla has perished.

Mark, Serizawa, Ilene, and Coleman go to Godzilla's location with the goal of reviving him. It is said that it could take years for him to fully heal. They know that Godzilla and other Titans like him eat radiation, so they can detonate a nuke that will make him better faster. So Serizawa takes the nuke down there and sets it off himself. The sub's weapons systems have been damaged, so this is the only way to get the nuke down there and set it off. It is the closest he has ever come to Godzilla. He says goodbye to his coworkers and makes his way up to Godzilla. Pets Godzilla as he tells him goodbye and detonates the nuke, giving up his life in the process. Once more powerful than ever before, Big G emerges and fires his atomic breath into the sky.

Mark tells the Monarch team that Emma constructed the Orca using mixed frequencies from Godzilla and humans, therefore mankind has as much of a role in this conflict as the Titans have. They also observe that Godzilla is producing a big nuclear pulse, and he is ready to go off shortly. Mark travels into the city to rescue Madison, and they ultimately come upon Emma, who has escaped from Jonah to save her daughter. They deduce that Madison has gone to their old house, and sure enough they find her there beneath the debris, unconscious but alive.

In a fury, Godzilla rises to resume fighting his foe. Meanwhile, the humans want to get the heck out of Boston, but Emma believes she must redeem herself for what she began. She refuses to get on the flight out of the city, even as Mark and Madison beg with her to accompany them. She gets a vehicle and uses the Orca to entice Ghidorah toward her. He unleashes a blast at her, which merely knocks her out of the vehicle, but has allowed Godzilla enough time to get his nuclear pulse building. Before dying, Emma looks up and says, “Long live the king.” Skyscrapers melt around him as everything else erupts into flames. Finally, Big G sends a tremendous blast toward Ghidorah, first to singe off his wings and then to take out his two side heads. After one more explosion, the city becomes toast, and from the smoke, it looks like Ghidorah’s head is emerging… only it’s within Godzilla’s jaws, and he finishes off the beast once and for all.

Soon, the other Titans will arrive in what is left of Boston. Even Rodan is bowing down to Godzilla, because he is bigger than everyone else. Mark, Madison, and the rest of Monarch are in awe of what is going on in the background. Godzilla then lets out a roar of victory.

During the credits, we see media headlines making notes that a Mothra egg has been found (indicating she can come back), while continuing to detail current activities in Skull Island. We see other cave paintings, including one in which Godzilla confronts the world’s second most well-known Titan…KONG.

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