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Godzilla vs. Kong will be released in 2021 as a sequel to King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island.

Godzilla vs. Kong had a bumpy road to release, first being scheduled for May 29, 2020, then being moved back to March 13, 2020, then November 20, 2020, and finally May 21, 2021. It was then rescheduled for March 26, 2021, before finally premiering in American cinemas on March 31, 2021. The film was also available to watch on HBO Max until April 30, 2021.

A sequel to the film is already in the works.

After Godzilla and Kong battled and defeated Ghidorah in 2019, the two Titans are the only active Titans on Earth in 2024. It was necessary for Monarch to confine Kong to a dome-shaped facility that mimicked the island's environment, where he was joined by a young Iwi girl named Jia, who is deaf and uses sign language to communicate with Kong. This provided Kong with some company while he was in captivity on Skull Island.

When Jia comes to see Kong and offers him a toy, the Titan, knowing that he is stuck within the biodome, discovers this and quickly tosses a tree at it.

Following the attack, the general public was taken aback by Godzilla's abilities to defend humanity, and they turned against him. Madison Russell, an adult listener to Bernie's podcast, is terrified about the newest Godzilla attack on her school, which took place last week. Her efforts to argue with her widowed father Mark (who also serves as Monarch's director) concerning the origins of Godzilla's rampage are met with dismissive silence, with Mark just stating that creatures may change in the same way as people can. Madison enlists the assistance of her best friend, Josh Valentine, in order to unravel the secrets surrounding Apex and the guy responsible for Godzilla's rampage.

Nathan travels to Skull Island, where he meets his colleague, Monarch anthropological linguist and Jia's adoptive mother Ilene Andrews. Nathan proposes that they use Kong as their navigator to guide them to the Hollow Earth, as Skull Island is no longer able to contain him (because Kong has grown too large) and allow him to survive. Ilene Andrews agrees, and the two of them set out to find the energy source. Though Ilene initially refuses, explaining that Godzilla would come for Kong as soon as he was moved off of Skull Island, she eventually agrees after being persuaded by Nathan that they must undertake this mission in order to halt Godzilla's rampage and that they can also find Kong a new home on the mainland.

Nathan, Ilene, Jia, and an Apex crew lead by Walter's daughter Maia board a customized barge with a mildly drugged Kong chained up. That night, Kong gets restless and anxious, but Jia soothes him down by having her and Kong hold fingers in solidarity, while Kong signs the word "home" for Ilene. It's the following day that Ilene tells Nathan how she raised Jia as her own when violent and unpredictable storms killed most of the Iwi and her parents, but Jia was the lone survivor since Kong protected her, leading to their relationship.

Their struggle is broken up, however, when Godzilla is distracted by depth charges, allowing Kong to surface for air.

Nathan has no option except to stop the ships' power in order to trick Godzilla into thinking that he has destroyed them and Kong has been defeated. After inspecting the stricken ship, he decides to swim away, content with his win. The team chooses to fly Kong to an Antarctica opening to the Hollow Earth, where Godzilla was first frozen, as they prepare to reactivate the ships. It seems that Kong is unwilling to cross the threshold, despite Jia's insistence.

In that location, the three disembark and find themselves inside a vast dark chamber, where they come across Apex's ultimate weapon, "Mechagodzilla" a mechanized counterpart of Godzilla controlled by Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's son, Walter's chief technology officer Ren Serizawa, who is also Walter's chief technology officer. As soon as Mechagodzilla is launched, Walter releases a gigantic adult Skullcrawler designated "Number 10" into the chamber in order to put the mecha's might against the Titans to the ultimate test. Madison, Josh, and Bernie are on the verge of being attacked by the Skullcrawler when it is grabbed and restrained by Mechagodzilla, who uses a powerful red energy beam to cleave the Skullcrawler in half, allowing Madison, Josh, and Bernie to take refuge in a small hatch. However, because to the restrictions of the power source, the test is cut short when the mecha shuts down immediately after the conclusion of the exam.

Afterwards, Kong and Nathan's team resume their journey, eventually reaching their destination at a huge stone temple that once belonged to Kong's ancestors. As they explore inside, they find remains of an ancient war between Kong's and Godzilla's race while Kong finds an ancient axe made from a dorsal plate of a deceased member of Godzilla's race before sitting upon a giant throne. As Nathan's team discover the power source they need to increase Mechagodzilla's power supply, Kong learns that the same power source can also recharge the axe. However, Maia and the Apex team use spider-like drones to harvest the power source and send it back to their Hong Kong base, despite Ilene protesting that Apex cannot simply take the find of the millennium. Maia has her guards aim their guns at Nathan's team, only for Kong to angrily bellow at them in their defense. Meanwhile, Mechagodzilla begins sending a signal to Godzilla, who senses the machine's activation and heads straight towards Hong Kong.

Both Kong and Godzilla recuperate and get up, with Godzilla on the lookout for Kong, who hides from the Titan by perching himself atop a tower. Kong ambushes Godzilla from above, placing the Titan in a chokehold with the intent of strangling him, only for Godzilla to break free and unleash his full fury on Kong, dislocating his left arm, slashing Kong with his claws, and even stomping on his chest twice, despite Kong's attempts to force Godzilla off of him by punching his wounded thigh. Godzilla, now that Kong has been restrained and held down, roars fiercely at his opponent in a display of power, while Kong, beaten, roars viciously in defiance of Godzilla.

Meanwhile, Josh and Bernie attempt to remotely disable the rogue robot, and Madison calls Mark for assistance, as Godzilla and Mechagodzilla fight, with Godzilla gaining the upper hand and scorching him. The three approach an unconscious Kong, where Jia notices his pulse is fading while Mechagodzilla continues to pummel Godzilla. They can't produce a big enough charge to restart Kong's heart, but Nathan remembers Maia's earlier comment about the HEAVs producing enough power to power Las Vegas for a week, so he flies the last HEAV onto Kong's chest and sets it to self-destruct, detonating the craft and releasing a huge electrical charge that instantly revives Kong.

Kong witnesses Godzilla's battle with Mechagodzilla on his way to visit Jia. Though Kong first doubts her after seeing Godzilla's destruction by Mechagodzilla, Jia finally argues that the robot is the "real" menace. Kong finally accepts and puts aside his hate before joining the battle to help Godzilla with his dislocated leg.

Kong leaps atop Mechagodzilla and deflects Godzilla's life-threatening crimson energy beam into the air. After recognizing Kong saved his life and that he is not a foe, Godzilla assists Kong in fighting Mechagodzilla.

The two Titans work together to change the tide, but the robot proves to be stronger than their combined might and defeats them. Kong reclaims his axe from the ruins after losing it during his previous encounter with Godzilla, but his weapon, having lost its charge, is worthless against Mechagodzilla, who tries to mortally impale Kong with its tail drill. All hope seems to be gone for Kong and Godzilla, but Bernie, understanding he and the others are powerless, takes out a flask of vodka and suggests they all take a drink. Josh, however, takes the flask from Bernie's grasp and short-circuits Mechagodzilla's controls by dumping the contents of the drink all over the control panel, causing Mechagodzilla to stop for a brief while and allowing Godzilla and Kong to recover and reclaim the upper hand.

When Godzilla sees Kong holding his axe, he supercharges it by blasting it with his atomic breath, enabling Kong to dismember Mechagodzilla limb by limb and take its head off before holding up his prize and sitting down to rest with a tremendous shout of victory.

Reception for Godzilla vs. Kong has been mostly favourable. On Rotten Tomatoes as of April 16, 2021, the film has 341 reviews, 254 of which are fresh, and a "Tomatometer" with a 74% certified Fresh rating. Godzilla vs. Kong, according to the reviewers' consensus, "Delivering squarely on its title, Godzilla vs. Kong swats away character development and human drama to deliver all the spectacle you'd expect from giant monsters slugging it out."

This film marks the first time in 59 years that Godzilla and King Kong appeared in a film together since 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla.

This film is Terry Rossio's first Godzilla film after his unproduced screenplay for the unmade 1994 film.

Godzilla vs. Kong has the shortest running duration in the MonsterVerse, clocking in at 113 minutes.

A possible allusion to Martin Riggs' iconic talent of a similar kind in the Lethal Weapon series might be made in the moment when Kong slams his right shoulder against a structure to realign it after it had been dislocated previously.

The place where Mechagodzilla is stationed bears resemblance to the Central Dogma with it being located underground and with a pyramid atop of it.