Update: We mistakenly identified this as an entirely new trailer when it was just the first trailer with some added footage. We’ve updated accordingly and will post when the real second trailer is released.
The latest footage from Godzilla: King of the Monsters continues to be lyrical and weirdly affecting, establishing that humans are the real monsters and the mythological titans must save us from ourselves. Including Godzilla, of course, but also King Ghidorah, who gets the big (albeit grainy, so not the top image) reveal in this trailer.
The video opens with a compilation of the viral marketing clips that have been tweeted from the @MonarchSciences Twitter account over the last few days. The movie stars Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, Sally Hawkins, Kyle Chandler, Charles Dance, and many more familiar faces:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZFEURum5eE
The official synopsis, from Warner Bros:
Following the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ cinematic MonsterVerse, an epic action adventure that pits Godzilla against some of the most popular monsters in pop culture history. The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters will save us all May 31, 2019.
I am really looking forward to this one, as the new Godzilla was good, and Skull Island even better. It’s too bad my old favorite Gamera, the flying turtle, can’t be in it, but I guess his rights are owned by a different company.
This is beyond silly. Terrible dialogue (I am surprised that the actors could stomach saying the things that came out of their mouth) folded into an excuse to throw all the special effects the producers could pay for onto the screen. Yes I know there is room for the popcorn movie, but can’t it show some intelligence? It’s a cash cow that the studio is milking for all its worth. Give me intelligent SF.
The music in this trailer is incredible! Anyone know what it is (if not an all-original score)?
the music is “Clair D’Lune” by Debussy
I am an avid godzilla fan. Grew up on toho monsters and am glad for the make over. I dont care about a storyline. Glad there is one but titan vs titan and destruction is what sells for me. Simple and worth the admission.
Isn’t this video the first trailer, though?
@6/Rasarr: You’re right — only the first 10 seconds of the video are new, compiling the “viral videos” released over the past few days. The rest is the same trailer that was released back in July.
Update: It’s been reported that the actual new trailer will go online tomorrow, December 10. Apparently it was originally indicated that it would be coming out this week, which is probably the source of confusion.
@8 What happened, another president die or something?
@6 / @7 / @8 My mistake, as there was some confusion with regard to when a new trailer was being released. We’ve updated the post accordingly.
#2
What? It’s a Godzilla movie. A series not exactly known as great sci-fi with scintillating dialogue.
@11/Wez: Actually the Godzilla franchise has been incredibly diverse over the decades. The original film is a wrenching, powerful anti-nuclear allegory with rich, nuanced characters and human drama, certainly one of the finest monster movies ever made aside from its primitive visual effects. Later films didn’t follow suit and tended to be more superficial disaster movies, growing increasingly kid-friendly in the ’60s and ’70s, but the reboots in the ’80s and subsequent decades have generally tried to be more mature and sophisticated, and there are some excellent films in the series, including the most recent live-action installment Shin Godzilla.
Yeah, the 70s and 60s movies were the best era. What was the one where Godzilla did a Highland Fling/Victory Fan Dance? That is what I want to see in my monster movies, none of this angsty-take-us-ever-so-seriously-please stuff.
^The most enduring fictional franchises are often the most adaptable ones, the ones that can take many forms for many audiences. If both Adam West and Christian Bale can be great versions of Batman, then so can Godzilla work as either comedy or tragedy.
The comment at #2 was criticizing this Godzilla movie for looking silly with terrible dialogue. And yeah, that’s a Godzilla movie alright! That’s what makes them charming. Even the “serious” ones still look damn silly from a distance, and good on them for that consistency.
Yeah, but is we can just adapt, evolve, back to some camp and comedy after the grimdarkness of the last couple of decades then that would be just fine with me. Not just for Godzilla, just pop culture in general.
#16
Oh, I agree. This dark pretentious hooey has well run its course with me. But I can at least laugh at the self-importance of it all. They’ve simply replaced the bad dubbing silliness of old with lofty Hollywood end-of-the-world silliness, I guess. Either way, just give me some giant monsters punching each other. Lots more than the last one, one would hope.
Waiting patiently for Mecha-Striesand to make an appearance.
@13 Wasn’t the victory dance in that movie where Godzilla met the Jet Jaguar robot, the one who could grow to kaiju size? Godzilla versus Megalon?
@19 — If it wasn’t in that one, it was in one from that era — Godzilla vs. Gigan, maybe?
@19/AlanBrown: The victory dance was in 1965’s Invasion of Astro-Monster, the second King Ghidorah film and the second film in which Godzilla was portrayed as an antihero instead of a villain. It was the 6th Godzilla film overall, while Gigan (1972) and Megalon (1973) were 12th and 13th, respectively.
Megalon was barely even a Godzilla film. It was meant to be a Jet Jaguar solo film, but they chickened out and tacked Godzilla onto it for fear JJ couldn’t carry a movie.
@21 — I stand corrected on the dance. That’s also interesting information about Megalon, which was my first Godzilla movie back in the day.