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And the Monarch squad entices Rodan to Monster Zero in Mexico. He ambushes Monster Zero and sever his left head after defeating Rodan. "Oxygen Destroyer," is used by the US Navy to destroy Godzilla during the battle. Monstrous Zero re-grows his missing head and wakes the other hibernating Titans, using Rodan as his slave. Madison disowns Emma as a consequence.

Jonah dismisses Emma's efforts to stop Ghidorah and the other Titans from destroying the Earth. Madison overhears and takes the Orca. When Madison arrives at Fenway Park, she unintentionally transmits a frequency that soothes the Titans. Ghidorah destroys the Orca in Boston. Godzilla arrives to fight him with help from Monarch. Because Godzilla's radiation levels are rising, Mark organizes a team to rescue Madison and flee the city before it's too late. To rescue Godzilla, Mothra comes, but is caught by Rodan. She beats him, but is damaged.

The Titans are working to repair the earth, a possible second Mothra egg has been found, and some of the Titans are converging on Skull Island. Ancient cave drawings depict Godzilla and Kong-like Titans fighting. In a post-credits scene, Jonah and his soldiers acquire Ghidorah's severed left head in Mexico.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson said in April 2015 that he wasn't sure if he'd be back for the sequel and that his return was up to Edwards. When Legendary said they were going to make a movie called Godzilla vs. Kong in October 2015, it was going to be out in 2020. Legendary is making a movie series called "Monarch," which "brings together Godzilla and King Kong in an ecosystem of other giant super-species, both classic and new." This movie series is called "Monarch."

Screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Zach Shields (both of whom worked on Krampus) were confirmed for Godzilla 2 in October of last year. Godzilla 2 director Dougherty was reportedly in talks the next day as well. Legendary also revealed that production will be taking place in Wanda's Qingdao Movie Metropolis site in Qingdao, China, along with Pacific Rim: Uprising, in the same month. Godzilla: King of the Monsters was revealed as the official title for Godzilla 2 in December 2016.

Dougherty was confirmed as the director in January 2017. After first being asked to direct, Dougherty was then asked to write the screenplay. Dougherty said the following when asked how he felt about being invited to direct: "'Yes,' I said. That was my first response. I was overjoyed, humbled, and grateful, and that feeling hasn't abated since. We had our wish come true. Lots of pressure, too. Huge, enormous stress."

King Ghidorah, Monarch, and Rodan were Legendary's sole requirements. A new screenplay was written by Dougherty and his crew. For his two-page proposal, Dougherty included basic beats and character sketches. Then Dougherty and co-writer/executive producer Zach Shields convened a writers' room with Borenstein. Ten authors aided the treatment's development. It took a year to write the script.

During shooting and post-production, Dougherty made several edits and revisions to the script. Writing the screenplay, he said, was a challenge since he had to balance "while still creating a story with human characters that we care about." with the monster spectacle. When Dougherty saw an opportunity to portray Monarch as a group of heroes in the previous film, he knew he had to make it the focus of the new one. This resulted in the film being a group effort.

Instead of using monsters, Dougherty and Shields opted for a human-centered plot line that could stand on its own without the science fiction components like climate change or eco-terrorism. Dougherty found the third act to be the most difficult to write since so many threads from the human and monster stories intertwined. There were multiple rewriting sessions before she delivered her monologue to Monarch, according to shields. Shields and Dougherty intended the speech to pose a moral dilemma to the audience: would they trust mankind or Mother Nature?

The movie changes the monsters' name from "MUTOs" to "Titans" Dougherty said that he wanted the monsters to look like they were from God and make people worship them "Prehistoric man saw these creatures. You want to give them a power that would make him fall to his knees and bow to this god. In order for it to work, it can't just look like big dinosaurs. Jurassic Park takes care of that. These have to be different. They must do their own thing. People who play for the Titans are very good at their jobs." When the designers were told by the director, they should look at the original designs from every era and "distill those silhouettes and those key traits into something more modern." "very large animals with a distinct thought process." were important to the director.

For Rodan, volcanic rock was added to the scales and skin tone to give Rodan the appearance of being able to survive in a volcano. It was Dougherty's goal to build something that "Mother Nature could have created." for Rodan's design. The designers were told to look at birds like vultures, eagles, and hawks, not simply Pteranodons, since birds are closely linked to dinosaurs. It's not easy to tell where Rodan's allegiances lay, according to Dougherty. The film's director further defined Rodan as a "massive A-bomb" that delivers "speed and ferocity." to the battlefield. Rodan was designed by Tom Woodruff Jr. and Amalgamated Dynamics. Rodan's pursuit scene was the first pre-visualization sequence that was utilized as a proposal to Legendary Entertainment.

It was Dougherty's goal for Mothra to be "beautiful," "feminine," "elegant," and "a true goddess, but also dangerous." He made an effort to keep the color scheme and the eye-spots on her wings as close to the original 1961 version as possible. It was important to make a link between Mothra and Godzilla, which is why the eye-spots were modeled like Godzilla's eyes. It was inspired by moths that Mothra was built to look like a moth and have extended legs to protect herself from other monsters.

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.

In order for Ghidorah to have an Eastern dragon impact, the director said, "We need avoid any Western dragon influence." "They're not the kind of dragons you'd expect to see in the West. That's right, they were the marching instructions from the start. Dragons from Game of Thrones are not what we're going for." For Ghidorah, Legacy Effects also designed it. However, Dougherty referred to Ghidorah as Rip Van Winkle, because of his curiosity and brutality. Ghidorah, according to producer Alex Garcia, is "not part of the natural order."

Dougherty revealed the film's non-Toho creatures. Non-Toho Titans include Baphomet, Typhon, Abaddon, Bunyip, Methuselah, Behemoth, Scylla, Tiamat, Leviathan, Sargon, and Mokele-Mbembe. The "Toho tradition" of adding new monsters to the Godzilla pantheon prompted Dougherty to develop new creatures. Dougherty wanted Legendary to get Anguirus, Biollante, and Gigan from Toho. A lack of funds prohibited them from getting more Toho characters.

On December 18, 2019, Toho released the film on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD in Japan, including Amazon, Godzilla Store, and Tsutaya exclusives. There was also a four-disc limited edition set with 4K Blu-ray, standard Blu-ray, DVD and bonus features Blu-ray. The Godzilla Store exclusive four-disc set included a Movie Monster Series figure of Burning Godzilla. Limited edition clear files were store exclusives. The film premiered on HBO in January 2020.

IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, 4DX, and ScreenX formats of Godzilla: King of the Monsters were released by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 31, 2019, except in Japan where it was distributed by Toho. Originally set for release on June 8, 2018, the film has been postponed. But it was delayed twice, the first time to March 22, 2019, then to today.

In certain regions, the movie was distributed in ScreenX format. "sequences of monster action, violence, and destruction, and for some language." were the reasons for the PG-13 classification in the United States. A press screening and Q&A with Dougherty and Ken Watanabe was place at Toho Studios in Tokyo in April 2019.

In early May 2019, people who wanted to see the movie before it came out could. On May 17, 2019, a VIP press screening was held in Los Angeles at the AMC Century City theater.

The film had its red carpet debut in Beijing on May 13, 2019. On May 18, 2019, it had a red carpet debut at Hollywood's Grauman's Chinese Theatre. A group of Taiko drummers presented a performance announcing the commencement of the event prior to the actors' arrival. Warner Bros. held a block party before the premiere.

In 2014, the movie begins in San Fran. Mark (Kyle Chandler) and Emma (Vera Farmiga) have lost their oldest son Andrew, while clinging onto their baby daughter Madison (Lexi Rabe). Emma looks up and sees Godzilla, somewhere after his MUTOS battle.

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.

Jonah takes Emma and Madison to a place where a huge creature called "Monster Zero" – King Ghidorah – is frozen in a block of ice. In the end, when Monarch and Jonah's teams meet, they set up the Orca to try and talk to him. Makes a move to save Emma and Madison, but when Madison starts walking toward him, Emma grabs a detonator. She wants to set off the explosives on the ice to free Ghidorah. She does this, and everyone runs to get it. Freed: The three-headed beast rises to the surface when he is freed.

A little time later, Godzilla makes his appearance to finish the job. As the two monsters clash, Godzilla tries to unleash his atomic breath on Ghidorah, but the latter dodges and launches lightning bolts from all three heads, plunging him back into the ice. Ghidorah then goes on a murdering spree, taking the lives of other individuals, among them Graham.

They head to Mexico with their team to free another Titan. The city starts to leave. Because Rodan is "the Fire Demon," they drive to a volcano that is still active. Sheer force: As a squadron from Monarch comes in, he rises up. As he eats some of the pilots, he barrel rolls through the air to finish the rest off.

A little while later, Ghidorah arrives and engages Rodan in combat. Using his many heads, Ghidorah is able to knock down Rodan. For the second time, Godzilla interrupts the fight. This time around, Rodan's left head is torn off by Godzilla, who continues to fight. Meanwhile, Captain William Stenz (David Straithairn) contacts Monarch and informs them that the military is ready to fire a large bomb known as the "Oxygen Destroyer" in order to destroy the creatures. However, Ghidorah manages to flee while Godzilla seems to have died.

Ghidorah travels to the volcano's summit to regrow his head. His cry wakes the rest of the Titans. In reaction, the Titans wreak havoc and ruin on their territories, killing countless people. Rodan even bows to Ghidorah's leadership since, as Monarch points out, Ghidorah has established himself as the Titans' alpha.

As Mothra emerges from a cocoon under a waterfall, she flies her way toward Godzilla, who is alive but weakened and healing underwater. As Mothra and Godzilla are talking, Monarch locates the two. Mothra and Godzilla "have a thing," as Barnes puts it, and the crew agrees. Ghidorah was one of the most feared Titans and would fight Godzilla for dominion, according to historical writings.

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.

Godzilla and Ghidorah are back at it, with the three heads gnawing on Godzilla's flanks. Webbing the three heads of Godzilla is done by Mothra, who is seen in the sky. Rodan reappears and assaults Mothra, almost tearing her head off until she outwits him and brings him down with a stab of her stinger into his shoulder. Mothra joins Godzilla's side as Ghidorah continues to weaken the monster. The monster unleashes his lightning and vaporizes her, but Godzilla is revived by the essence of Ghidorah.

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 board the plane out of town, even though Mark and Madison beg her to. She steals a van and uses the Orca to entice Ghidorah. He blasts her, only knocking her out of the van, but buying Godzilla time to build his nuclear pulse. “Long live the king,” Emma says before she dies. Skyscrapers melt and everything else catches fire. Finally, Big G sends a tremendous blast toward Ghidorah, first to singe off his wings and then to take out his two side heads. It appears Ghidorah's head emerges from the smoke after one more blast... Except it's in Godzilla's mouth, and he kills it.

Soon, the other Titans arrive in what remains of Boston. Even Rodan bows before Godzilla. Mark, Madison, and the rest of Monarch watch in disbelief. Godzilla then lets out a victorious roar.

After the credits, Jonah and his men follow a man who gives them one of Ghidorah's heads. Jonah says he will take it and use it for an unknown reason.

Eco-terrorist Alan Jonah and his squad capture Dr. Emma Russell and her daughter Madison some years after Godzilla first appeared in San Francisco, and they plan to utilize a gadget Emma invented called The Orca to connect with Titans and awaken King Ghidorah. Emma uses the Orca to tame a freshly born Mothra, and Jonah is impressed by its abilities.

To stop Jonah from getting what he wants, Emma's ex-husband, Mark, has joined Monarch's team of scientists and soldiers. But they are too late to stop Emma as she frees Ghidorah. During the first fight between them, Godzilla is killed by the beast. During a conversation with Mark, Emma tells him that she has been working with Jonah on a project that will bring balance back to the Earth. To get back at Ghidorah after getting rid of Rodan's volcano, he kills a whole squad of soldiers and then fights and loses to him. The three-headed dragon then shows that he is in charge, which causes the other Titans to rise and start causing trouble.

The military unleashes a bomb that badly damages Godzilla. He is recovering underground, but Monarch knows that a nuclear would speed up the healing process. Dr. Serizawa freely descends to aid Godzilla's recovery.

She leaves Jonah and heads into Boston to find Madison after bringing the Orca to Fenway Park and calling the Titans there. When Godzilla and Mothra go up against Ghidorah and Rodan, the stakes could not be higher for the final showdown! To save Godzilla, Mothra gives herself to Ghidorah, sacrificing herself in the process but allowing her essence to infuse Godzilla with strength. For the sake of luring Ghidorah away from Godzilla, Emma sacrifices her own life. Finally, Godzilla uses the nuclear pulse from the nuke to completely destroy Ghidorah. Afterwards, the rest of the Titans arrive and bow to Godzilla as their new leader.

Things are being set up for Godzilla to fight Kong while a Mothra egg is found. Jonah, on the other hand, gets one of Ghidorah's heads to use as a test.

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