How do you direct 'Godzilla x Kong'? Adam Wingard took performance notes from his cat
by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times
Apr 01, 2024
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Since making his MonsterVerse debut in 2017's "Kong: Skull Island," the title character has battled a sneaky squid, deadly lizard-like predators, the mighty Godzilla and even a high-tech mecha designed to take all these creatures out.
But in "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire," the giant ape must face his most challenging foe yet: a toothache.
"These movies are always about taking things that are relatable and then scaling them up," says director Adam Wingard, 41. "You're looking for those things [that] would be fun to see on this wildly big scale that we've never seen" — like Kong scratching his butt while taking a shower in 2021's "Godzilla vs. Kong."
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