However, Mark dismisses his daughter’s belief in the Titan Truth Podcast and says that creatures, just like people, can change.Īt the Denham University of Theoretical Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Simmons and Serizawa visit the office of former Monarch geologist Dr. There, she tries to convince her father, acting Monarch director Mark Russell, that Godzilla is being provoked somehow. Madison Russell views a CNN report on the situation in her classroom, then after school heads to Monarch’s relief camp in Pensacola. In the aftermath of the attack, public opinion has turned against Godzilla, who is no longer viewed as humanity’s savior. Godzilla then decimates the rest of the facility with his atomic breath. Bernie looks through the ruins and sees a suspicious piece of glowing machinery resembling a gigantic robotic eye nearby. Two guards demand to see Bernie’s clearance and aim their guns at him, only for a blast of Godzilla’s atomic breath to burst through the wall and incinerate them. Fighter jets open fire on Godzilla, who swats them aside and fires his atomic breath. On a rooftop, Apex CEO Walter Simmons and Chief Technology Officer Ren Serizawa flee the scene in a helicopter. Bernie begins to evacuate with the other employees, but he slips through a door into a restricted area. Godzilla surfaces from the ocean and comes ashore to attack the facility.
While the download is proceeding, an alarm suddenly sounds alerting the facility of a Titan attack. Bernie observes unusual shipping manifests which show technology being shipped to Apex headquarters in Hong Kong. Bernie annoys the employee before he finally dismisses himself, allowing Bernie to insert his flash drive into the office’s computer and begin downloading data. Bernie enters the office of another Apex employee, who tells him he is not supposed to be here. He exits his car and enters the Pensacola Apex facility, where he works under deep cover as an engineer. In Pensacola, Florida, Bernie Hayes records an episode of his Titan Truth Podcast, explaining that he is about to obtain incriminating evidence of Apex Cybernetics’ illicit activities. Andrews and signs to her that Kong is angry, and she signs back to Jia to wait in the car for her. Andrews dismisses the notion of relocating Kong, as the second he leaves the island Godzilla will undoubtedly come for him, since there cannot be two alpha Titans.
Ilene Andrews, an anthropological linguist, observes Kong while another Monarch member says to her that the Outpost can no longer contain him, as he has grown too large. The rest of Skull Island is now enveloped in the perpetual raging storm that once surrounded it. The sky is merely a projection, part of Monarch Outpost #236, the Kong Containment unit. Kong then turns and throws the tree into the sky, where it suddenly collides with a disguised barrier. Jia approaches Kong and presents her doll, causing Kong to briefly lean forward to observe. Kong uproots a tree as the young Iwi girl Jia finishes putting together a doll of him.
Kong strolls into a nearby lake and stands underneath a waterfall, letting the water run down his body. Five years have passed since Godzilla defeated King Ghidorah and took the title “King of the Monsters.” Somewhere on Skull Island, Kong awakens as a flock of Leafwings flies overhead. As the two Titans cross paths in a ferocious conflict for supremacy, a smaller group of humans attempt 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. 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. Five years after the events of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla unexpectedly turns against humanity. Kong is the culmination of every entry in Legendary and Warner Bros.' MonsterVerse so far. The second film to pit Godzilla and King Kong against each other, Godzilla vs. Toho released it to Japanese theaters on July 2. It was released to American theaters on March 31, 2021, becoming available to stream via HBO Max the same day until April 30. Kong (ゴジラvsコング, Gojira buiesu Kongu) is a 2021 American science fiction monster film produced by Legendary Pictures, and the fourth entry in the MonsterVerse.