GvK Shows How KOTM Director's Ancient MonsterVerse Prequel Idea Can Work

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Godzilla vs. Kong proves how Mike Dougherty’s ancient Godzilla prequel idea can work in Legendary’s MonsterVerse. Back in 2019, the Godzilla: King of the Monsters director expressed interest in making a Godzilla BC movie. Such a story would obviously call for the MonsterVerse to abandon modern technology for an ancient setting.

Dougherty’s hopes for a Godzilla BC movie are just one of several ideas that may or may not be on the table for a future MonsterVerse installment. For the time being, it’s not clear what Legendary Pictures. Reportedly, it’s rumored Godzilla vs. Kong sequel is a Son of Kong story, but that hasn’t been confirmed. Other options that may be under consideration are a Godzilla vs. Destoroyah adaptation, a proper Godzilla-Kong team-up, Kong 2, and a modern-day Titan War. Out of all the possibilities that have been discussed, Godzilla BC may have seemed the most unlikely. After all, it would be completely different from anything Legendary (or Toho) has ever done with Godzilla.

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Interestingly, Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong created a blueprint for how Dougherty could pull off Godzilla BC. Arguably the biggest issue with the concept is how it would make humans irrelevant. They could still be present in the story of course, but without technology, their impact on the Titan themselves would be severely limited. Since there’s not much they could do against a Titan with arrows and spears, their importance would be greatly reduced. Normally, that would sound like a major obstacle to Godzilla BC ever seeing the light of day, but Godzilla vs. Kong revealed just how unessential the humans really are. The movie proved that Godzilla BC can