Gojirafan2013
MemberBaragonMay-16-2022 3:44 PMI believe the MonsterVerse’s shift in tone from G14 to GVK can be boiled down to two factors:
1. The general audience’s reaction to G14 - Since people felt unsatisfied with Godzilla’s screen time and the way the human characters were handled, their reaction may have been the reason why Legendary decided to move away from Gareth Edward’s grounded approach and make the following movie, Kong: Skull Island, more self aware and action oriented; to give people what they wanted from the first movie. After KSI embraced a more lighthearted, tongue-and-cheek tone than its predecessor, the next two entries followed suite, even taking inspiration from some wacky fantastical and science fiction elements from the Toho movies.
2. The decision to do a King Kong vs Godzilla remake - Now, the idea of making a movie about a giant ape fighting a radioactive dinosaur sounds pretty silly on paper, and it would be very hard to take a more grounded approach when making it the way Gareth Edwards made G14. So this could be one of the reasons KSI ended up the way it is; a self aware, lighthearted, glorified, action packed throwback to old monster B-movies where a 104 foot ape is smacking down helicopters while 70s rock music is playing in a Apocalypse Now-esc setting. The decision to do a Godzilla and King Kong rematch meant that the filmmakers would have to scale up Kong, which would make for a rather significant departure from G14’s more grounded tone to a more fantastical tone. This change in tone would end up effecting the rest of the MonsterVerse after KSI.
