After years of making a name for himself as a respected director of low-budget thrillers, filmmaker Adam Wingard will be tackling two iconic monsters next. The filmmaker has come aboard to helm Warner Bros. and Legendary’s highly-anticipated monster battleGodzilla vs. Kong, which will bring together the studios’GodzillaandKing Kong franchises. This move comes just a few months after the studios finalized a writers room to generate ideas for this film,Godzilla: King of Monstersand other potential movies.
The Hollywood Reporterbroke the news today that the filmmaker has finalized his deal with Warner Bros. and Legendary. While it isn’t clear exactly which writer will be working on the script forGodzilla vs. Kong, the project will come out of this talentedwriters roomlead by Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbeanfranchise). The other writers in this room include Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, (Star Trek 4), Lindsey Beer (The Kingkiller Chronicles), Cat Vasko (Queen of the Air), T.S. Nowlin (Maze Runnerfranchise,Pacific Rim: Uprising) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5).
We haven’t heard anything about the project since last May, when the studios set a August 18, 2025 release date for this epic adventure, which bringsGodzilla and Kongtogether, although the studios later pushed it up a week to August 12, 2025. As of now, only an untitled Marvel movie on June 01, 2025 and Warner Bros.‘Scoobyon July 18, 2025 are slated to open in that month. No plot details have been released forGodzilla vs. Kongquite yet, although it will be interesting to see how the time gap betweenKong: Skull Island, which was set in the 1970s, andGodzilla: King of Monsters, which is believed to be set in present day, is handled.
The post-credit scene forKong: Skull Islandfeatured Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston’s characters in a Monarch interrogation room, where they are shown the nuclear blast that created the monster known asGodzilla, along with a number of cave drawings featuring the iconic monsters King Ghidorah, Mothra and Rodan, who have long been confirmed to be part ofGodzilla: King of Monsters. Still, there is no indication of how this sizable gap in time will be bridged, which could possibly happen during a post-credit scene in the upcomingGodzilla: King of Monsters, which is currently in production and stars Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown. Still, since Godzilla was already established as being created in the 1970s, after the events ofKong: Skull Island, it’s possible that thisGodzilla vs. Kongbattle could take place in that time frame.
Aside from theMay 2020 release dateand this new director, nothing much else is known aboutGodzilla Vs Kong. Now that a director has been chosen, hopefully new details will be revealed, although it also isn’t clear if the writers room has even started churning out ideas for this epic adventure yet.Adam Wingardmade his feature directorial debut a decade ago with 2007’sHome SickandPop Skull, which he followed up with the critically-acclaimed 2010 thrillerA Horrible Way to Die. In 2011, he releasedAutoeroticandWhat Fun We’re Having, which he followed up with segments onV/H/S/,The ABCs of DeathandV/H/S/2, along with another critically-acclaimed thriller,You’re Next, in 2013. He most recently directedThe Guestand last year’sBlair Witch, and his next film, an adaptation of the iconic mangaDeath Note, will be debuting through the Netflix streaming service on August 25.
