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Honestly, its' hard to tell for sure from that angle. 

 It could be a flash back scene 

Agreed.

Personally, I wanna hear Rodan's and Ghidorah's theme the most.

Definitely Ifukube's classic Godzilla theme. It's in need of a new spin.

Ko Otani did something very close to it in GMK and Kieth Emerson did a rendition of it for Godzilla: Final Wars, but it was sorta awful and fittingly didn't make it in the movie.

J. Peter Robinson's brief rendition in the American version of Godzilla 2000 was kinda neat, but I wanted more. (I have no idea why he included Rodan's theme in the movie though...)

Meanwhile, Toho just used stock Ifukube tracks for the Millennium series and Shin Godzilla whenever they needed Godzilla's original theme.

If the leaked music from Tokyo Comic Con is any indication, McCreary's rendition could be the best since Ifukube's return in the early 1990s.

I want the classic Godzilla theme to shake the chairs in the theater

Naturally, I would hope for Godzilla, Rodan, and King Ghidorah's classical themes. As for Mothra, however, I would prefer her 1961 Mosura theme, along with 1964's Sacred Springs.

Hmm.. Interesting..

Does an origin story really matter? It's just a fictional character. Whether an origin story is told or not wouldn't matter since King Ghidorah is established as a monster with space origins later to be found in ice imprisonment, only to break free with existential crisis inbound. All that could be best achieved is theorizing what his role was on Earth. The monster's history, after all, does predate the human civilization by a significant degree, therefore information on said character could never be complete. I personally enjoy the mystery behind King Ghidorah - in similar case, much like how Michael Myers used to be. No needing to fix what's not broken.

I never said it would ruin the movie. I said it would harm the dramatic tension and take away from the mystery. But since you ask:

The Heisei King Ghidorah's origins have been criticized since 1991, so for many, yes--It put a significant dent in the film for quite a few fans and critics. If anything the Heisei monsters are the #1 most guilty for being over explained--Particularly Battra and SpaceGodzilla which many agree are the weakest films of the era.

Meanwhile, look at the original Alien. All we knew about the xenomorph was what we watched on-screen. Part of what made it terrifying was that it wasn't over explained--The mystery perpetuated its terror. Then Prometheus and Alien: Covenant come out around three decades later and piss off half the fan base with some really convoluted backstory. The fact is it never really needed to be explored and worked just fine as it was.

Did knowing ghidorahs origins in the heisei Era ruin the movie, how about biolante, or destroyah did knowing their origin ruin the movie?

But being grounded doesn't mean you have to sacrifice dramatic tension by over explaining things. That has nothing to do with it.

Well the showa Era and Mothra trilogy were not trying to be as grounded like the legendary trilogy need I remind you of flying godzilla in godzilla versus hedorah

Who's the artist again? Is it Andy Fairhurst?

Maybe if they want to set up future installments? But I don't think it's important to the immediate story. If they bring it up, okay, but I hope they maintain mystery to King Ghidorah's origins. We never really found out where he was from in the Showa series/Mothra trilogy and that's a far more interesting and ominous background than knowing too much about him. What we don't know is far more terrifying and lends credence to the myths behind him.

Well it sets up that more of them exist so it is important

So that's definitely the Bandai 2004 Rodan (Final Wars) figure. But sure. Lego.

World building and spoiling the mystery are two different things. There's such a thing as over-explaining some things. All we need to know is King Ghidorah is a powerful entity from space that could cause our extinction--That's all we've ever needed to know to establish dramatic tension within the movie. I don't really care if he's a unique creature, an alien mutation or the Easter Bunny one day out of the year, nor is that particularly vital information.

MDK 2 (MinecraftDinoKaiju),
The rewrites Dougherty and Shields did were minimal. There's nothing to suggest they did complete rewrites, they just added some thing for sake of consistency:

The Total Film article said, "Dougherty and writing partner Shields have been able to some input into the next film, 'We did some rewrites on the script just to help carry certain themes across and to flesh out some of the characters.'"

This is par for the course in Hollywood. Many screenplays go through several rewrites from multiple screenwriters. The 2014 Godzilla film had 5 different screenwriters work on it, but only Max Borenstein was given credit. David S. Goyer worked on it as well and Drew Peirce was brought in to polish it after Borenstein finished. Then Frank Darabont came in to flesh out some of the character moments.

I have to say this the best shot of Rodan thus far. Spreading his wings and his claws like an eagle. 

Most likely

But it's a high quality non-screencap image of that scene, which makes it a whole lot better!

Also, while Mike Dougherty did make a quote about Rodan being an A-Bomb, it was actually an entirely separate quote.

I imagine that some of his origins may be elaborated on in the film proper.

It's called world building, typically it helps make a movie better

MDK 2 (MinecraftDinoKaiju) Yeah, we know ;)

Uh...Lego? What lego?

That doesn't look like a lego to me

Does it matter? From the perspective of a human, Ghidorah having mutated in space prior to coming to Earth would have no bearing on our perception of Ghidorah as an alien. It would only matter if Ghidorah came to Earth and somehow we mutated it. 

That doesn't look like a LEGO figure. Fake.

Yes. I'm surprised you haven't heard of it. Look it up. You're welcome.

??? What does this have to do with LEGO?

Wait he rewrote godzilla versus king kong, seriously? Not sure whether to be concerned or happy about that

Well, if Michael Dougherty "re-wrote Godzilla vs. Kong (2020)" (Btw, I'm surprised there isn't a forum topic discussing that. Why?), then I'm sure he can answer this question. (Insert my forum signature here.)

Also, I forgot to mention: the "new movie still" is just a shot that was shown in the 'Intimidation' teaser trailer for the film, so don't get too excited.

they probably won't respond, but it's worth a shot

Yeah, but still, we don't know. You know what? Here's what we should do. We should tweet this entire forum out to Legendary/Mike Dougherty and see what they say. (And it better not be the same quote that states "that Ghidorah is a creature from space who most likely arrived on Earth many millions of years ago.") We need ACTUAL answers so that we could put this topic to rest. (For Monsterverse King Ghidorah, at least.)

Because so far even godzilla is a species

how so?

@Patzilla, This won't be connected to the Monsterverse, it will be an original concept by Vogt-Roberts himself.

That wouldn't make much sense

Nah, hes most likely a unique alien (Only one)