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[Ross61]

Terry Rossio, known for his work on the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, will head the crack creature crew.
With Kong: Skull Island generating strong reviews before its March 10 release, Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. already has its sights on the big prize, the eventual Godzilla vs. Kong movie.

That project is acting as the culmination (at least at this point) of the company's series of movies featuring silver screen super species.

The studio is putting together a writers room to break the story, with Terry Rossio, veteran scribe best known for co-writing the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, tapped to head the creature feature league. Once he and his cohorts work out the best ideas and beats for the story, a writer will be chosen to write the script.

Joining Rossio in the room will be:

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.’s 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;

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.

Legendary, with Warners, are in the middle of their monster universe which is centered around classic silver screen creatures Godzilla and King Kong.

Godzilla, released in 2014, was the first entry and Skull Island, during its development, was retrofitted to fold into an overall story. Legendary is now in the casting stages of a sequel to Godzilla, titled Godzilla: King of the Monsters, with Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown so far on the roll call. That movie has a March 22, 2019 release date. Godzilla vs Kong is eyeing a release of May 29, 2020.

Studios, in recent years, have begun to taking to the writers room approach in order to brainstorm and create a connected cinematic universe for film franchises that may not have obvious connections or to build out a mythology. This tends to occur when there isn’t a strong foundation such as the decades of stories that buttress the Marvel and DC movies.

Paramount put together rooms to organize a Transformers cinematic universe as well to create one based on multiple Hasbro properties. Universal also has one for its movie universe featuring monsters such as the Mummy, the Bride of Frankenstein, and the Invisible Man.

Rossio is repped by WME and Dodie Gold Management, McKay and Payne are repped by Verve and Kaplan/Perrone. Beer is repped by WME and Gang Tyre, Vasko by WME, Grandview and Hansen Jacobson. Nowlin is repped by ICM Partners and Management 360 while Straczynski by Paradigm and Gendler & Kelly.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/kong-skull-island-sequel-plans-godzilla-kong-sets-writers-room-984992

 

[ubique]

Not enough writers, we need more writers for this one

 

[paragonpro]

After seeing kong and godzilla 14 im hyped for the universe they are setting up, i love me some giant monster goodness

 

[DeathyBoy]

Not enough writers, we need more writers for this one

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

I am so happy we are basically getting high budget Showa films. That was my favorite Godzilla era. Can't wait for Kong and Godzilla to fight first and then ally against a bigger threat.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Passed from writer to writer in a desperate attempt to save it.

Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, who co-wrote Star Trek Beyond and who are working on Star Trek 4;

Whaaaaat?! Heck yeah.

 

[Ross61]

Passed from writer to writer in a desperate attempt to save it.



Whaaaaat?! Heck yeah.

Save what?!

 

[LordOfLore]

Passed from writer to writer in a desperate attempt to save it.



Whaaaaat?! Heck yeah.

Save what?!

Yep, it's the one Kirk's father is supposed to be in so prepare for time travel.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Save what?!

Sorry, that was a MST3K quote. I'm actually excited for this, but quite surprised Michael Dougherty isn't involved.

 

[JdFoX187]

Sorry, that was a MST3K quote. I'm actually excited for this, but quite surprised Michael Dougherty isn't involved.

Probably too focused on getting King of the Monsters ready. It starts production soon, right?

 

[kevin1025]

"You and you, write about these three punches! You, go work on the Godzilla laser scene. You seven, do something about how to make Kong Godzilla-sized. You... you keep doing what you're doing right there, who loves ya, baby!"

 

[J_Viper]

Kong vs G-Money releasing only a year after Godzilla 2 has me excited.

 

[shingi70]

Hopefully we get that long awaited Muto spin off film.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

So hyped for this 'verse.
Loved Godzilla '14 & Kong: Skull Island was a lot of fun. Stay after the credits!

 

[Captin Quacker]

Im curious how the jaegers will fit into this

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Too many cooks spoil the soup.

 

[LiK]

Two big monsters fight. Just get a kid to write it. They have better imaginations.

 

[Chaotic-Strike]

It's interesting that Terry Rossio is writing for this room. Since he had written the script for the original American Godzilla film in 94 before Sony eventually had cold feet and that script was thrown out when Emmerich came on board.

I do think it's a good thing they are finally trying to get some decent writers for this Monsterverse considering how weak the human element have been in the latest Kong and Godzilla movies.