Godzilla V King Kong Announces Writers Room
Kong: Skull Island might be stomping on the competition at the box office this weekend but, it’s merely foreplay for the biggest monster on monster clash Godzilla V Kong, the culmination of Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros series of films featuring silver screen monsters.
And now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the twin studios have assembled a writer’s room to map out the arena of combat for the monster clash.
Heading up the room will be Pirates of the Caribbean co-writer Terry Rossio, who’ll be in charge of Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, who co-wrote Star Trek Beyond and who are working on Star Trek 4; Lindsey Beer, who is currently adapting The Kingkiller Chronicles for Lionsgate; Cat Vasko, currently penning Warner Bros.’ adaptation of period circus love story Queen of the Air; T.S. Nowlin, the writer of the Maze Runner movies, who already worked for Legendary on its Pacific Rim sequel; Jack Paglen, who wrote the Johnny Depp-starring Transcendence and who also worked on the upcoming Alien: Covenant; and J. Michael Straczynski, the comic book writer and creator of 1990s sci-fi show Babylon 5 whose recent credits include World War Z and co-creating Netflix show Sense8 with the Wachowskis.
After 2014’s Godzilla and this year’s Kong: Skull Island, comes a sequel to Godzilla, titled Godzilla: King of the Monsters, with Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown already announced to star. That movie has a March 22, 2019, release date. Godzilla vs. Kong is eyeing May 29, 2020.
