MONSTER VERSE OF MADNESS

They've fought each other and they've punched out Mechagodzilla, but now clashing titans King Kong and Godzilla must face the worldending threat of Skar King, the most malevolent monster we've ever seen.

-  JAMIE GRAHAM KUMA

Total Film tag teams with director Adam Wingard and stars Rebecca Hall and Dan Stevens to take on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the gigantic creature feature that sets out to take special effects and storytelling techniques - to new heights.

Adam Wingard is buzzing. The director is Zooming from São Paulo, Brazil, where he’s attending Comic Con – or CCXP, if you prefer. It’s just hours since the first trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has dropped, and after months and months of blanket secrecy, there have been revelations of some super-cool shit, to use the technical term. Mini Kong! Badass red-ape titan Skar King! All-new images of Hollow Earth! Godzilla boasting a makeover colour scheme! Kong sporting a freaking bionic arm! And in the trailer’s climactic shot, Kong and Godzilla running side by side into battle like some supersized Batman and Robin cloaked in hair and scales.

‘Yeah!’ grins Wingard, who challenges Kong in the hair stakes with his explosively unruly barnet and bushy, grey-streaked beard cascading down his chest. ‘For me, the starting point for this movie was that shot of them running into battle together. That was the very first image that I really had of this movie. That’s where you want to end up. It was like, “If we can make something that justifies this moment, then we know we’ve done it right.”’