Godzilla vs. Kong (ゴジラvsコング Gojira buiesu Kongu) is a 2021 American science fiction monster film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein from a story by Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields, with visual effects by John DJ DesJardin. Funded by Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures and produced by the latter, it is the fourth Hollywood-produced Godzilla film and the 36th Godzilla film overall, as well as the fourth entry in the Monsterverse. It stars Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Julian Dennison, Lance Reddick, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, and Kaylee Hottle. The film was released to American theaters by Warner Bros. on March 31, 2021,[7] becoming available to stream via HBO Max the same day until April 30.[8] Toho released it to Japanese theaters on July 2.
The second film to pit Godzilla and King Kong against each other, Godzilla vs. Kong is the culmination of every entry in Legendary and Warner Bros.' Monsterverse before it. Five years after the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla unexpectedly turns against humanity. Monarch organizes a mission with Apex Cybernetics, a powerful technological company, to lead an expedition with the primate Titan Kong into the Hollow Earth to retrieve a power source for a weapon capable of stopping Godzilla's rampages. As the two Titans cross paths in a ferocious conflict for supremacy, a smaller group of humans attempts to uncover a conspiracy behind Apex's activities, only to discover the company's ultimate weapon: Mechagodzilla, a mechanical colossus built to replace Godzilla as the Alpha Titan and end the ancient creatures' reign for good.