New MonsterVerse Movie possibly titled Son Of Kong in the works

[TigerClaw]

With the success of Godzilla vs Kong, It looks like Legendary will be developing a new MonsterVerse movie, The director of Godzilla vs Kong will be involved, and the possible title is Son Of Kong.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/adam-wingard-next-godzilla-kong-movie-director?preview=true&preview_id=4174345

[Allio]

I don’t think the issue was the Monsterverse more so for Godzilla himself.

[TigerClaw]

I don’t think the issue was the Monsterverse more so for Godzilla himself.
There was a Son of Kong movie in 1933 however, There is also that.

[oldmanwinters]

I liked the 1933 film, for the most part. But the ending is even sadder than the original:
Son of Kong ends with Denham and Hilda contemplating how disgustingly rich they're about to be thanks to the Skull Island jewel. I simply cannot stress how much this movie begins with Carl Denham feeling remorse over getting Kong killed and ends with Carl Denham going back to Skull Island and getting Kong's infinitely more lovable son killed. This would've been an A+ bit if RKO had turned this into a recurring series. There should've been a second sequel where Denham accidentally pushes Kong's wife in front of a steam train. But, no. The next film to feature King Kong arrived 29 years later and did not include Little Kong, because Little Kong is a hill of bones next to the Titanic.
https://collider.com/son-of-kong-movie-ending-explained/

[Andrew NDB]

I guess "Son of Kong" is probably a pretty sound idea on what to do after KOAM and GvK. Plus Kong is due for another solo movie anyway.

I'm a little surprised there wasn't even a small push to get put a Rodan solo movie.

[TigerClaw]

I guess "Son of Kong" is probably a pretty sound idea on what to do after KOAM and GvK. Plus Kong is due for another solo movie anyway.

I'm a little surprised there wasn't even a small push to get put a Rodan solo movie.
Even it was more Kong's story in GvK than Godzilla's. But he's is due for a second Kong movie no doubt, The Hollow Earth opens up to many possibilities.

[Andrew NDB]

As far as I've been aware, GvK represents the last movie in the Godzilla license they signed. So it's less them "losing" it as it is them just completing the terms of it... and now needing to make another deal.

Though again... KOAM was a money loser for them. If they do intend to make more they'll have to drastically scale back the way they approach those movies.

[Allio]

Giant monster movies is definitely a tricky balance to make.

[Andrew NDB]

My suspicion is that, given the losses from KOAM and... whatever the final net result of GvK is (hard/impossible to judge by traditional means)... they may take the Godzilla factor so far as a running pad. And at least for the near future try to lean on the Kong side of things, as this doesn't require any renegotiations with Toho or anything. While cutting budgets waayyyyyyy back.

Like, a string of Skull Island type movies could easily be profitable if they maintained that level of quality.