Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
Director: Adam Wingard
Stars: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle, Alex Ferns
Plot: The new installment in the Monsterverse puts the mighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla against a colossal deadly threat hidden within our world that threatens the existence of their species and our very own, as well as diving deep into the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond. Delving straight into the origins of Hollow Earth, this film will explore the ancient Titan battle that brought man and monster together forever.
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[mysterious music playing]
[“Welcome to My World” playing]
♪ Welcome to my world ♪
[creatures screeching]
♪ Won’t you come on in? ♪
♪ Miracles, I guess ♪
♪ Still happen now and then ♪
[screeching]
♪ Step into my heart ♪
♪ Leave your cares behind ♪
[slow tense music playing]
[loud thud]
[roars]
[dramatic music playing]
[creatures growling]
[growling]
[creatures calling]
[Kong roaring]
[continues roaring in slo-mo]
[grunts]
[creatures growling]
[whimpering]
[panting]
[panting]
[creatures growling]
[roaring]
[snarling]
[panting]
[growls]
[screeching]
[growls, roars]
[grunts]
[screeching]
[grunts]
[growling]
[grunts]
[roaring]
[whimpering]
[continues roaring]
[all whimpering]
[groaning]
[groaning]
[continues groaning]
[inhales, sighs]
[flesh tearing]
[groans in pain]
[Kong gasps]
[Kong growls]
[creature snarls]
[Kong growls]
[distant roaring]
[chittering]
[grunting]
[distant roaring continues]
[roaring]
[distant roaring]
[distant roaring continues]
[groans softly]
[creature chittering]
[mimics roaring]
[grunts softly]
[groans softly, sniffs]
[groans sadly]
[woman] For most of human civilization, we believed that we were Earth’s most dominant species.
We believed that life…
[creatures screeching]
…could only exist on the surface of the planet.
Well, after a certain point, you have to wonder what else were we wrong about?
[intriguing music playing]
We have mapped less than five percent of Hollow Earth.
But our ecosystems are linked in ways we never could have imagined.
We are not two separate worlds.
We’re one.
[Ilene] Kong is settling in to Hollow Earth.
So, the big guy likes his new home.
We think so.
His species was a very social one.
It’s not natural for Kong to be so alone.
He’s the last of his kind.
[Kong groans] Every day he searches for a family that he’ll never find.
[roaring]
What about Godzilla?
[Ilene] Godzilla’s on the surface, Kong is below.
As long as they don’t venture into each other’s territories, we’ve got nothing to worry about.
Humanity is lucky…
[alerts beeping]
Godzilla’s fighting the battles we can’t.
[crowd screaming]
[Titan screeching]
[energy pulsing rapidly]
[soft growling]
[roaring]
[dramatic music playing]
[Titan chittering]
[crowd screaming]
[roaring]
[Titan chittering]
[snarling]
[Godzilla roaring]
[Godzilla roars]
[screeching]
[roaring]
[crowd screaming]
[Godzilla roaring]
[screeching]
[screeching]
[atomic breath powering up]
[dramatic music playing]
[explosion]
[roaring]
[music fades out]
[reporter on TV] With some critics calling out Monarch for the billions in taxpayer dollars going to Hollow Earth and classified technologies like the mysterious Project Powerhouse.
Well, here to discuss, Monarch’s own, Doctor Ilene Andrews.
Let’s start with Godzilla. He stopped the attack in Rome, but he’s still in the city. Should we be worried?
[Ilene] It’s clear to us now that Godzilla is a Titan who protects us from other malicious Titan threats.
Kong’s heading in for the night.
Looks like it was another rough one.
That’s the farthest he’s gone yet.
Maybe he was looking for a date.
Good luck with that.
I hope he’s up for some inter species romance.
[alert beeping]
[man] whoa.
[automated voice] Sinkhole detected in Sector Five.
[woman] That’s Kong’s hunting ground.
[suspenseful music playing]
[signal glitching]
Whoa. It keeps doing that.
More electrical anomalies?
[man] Nah, I don’t think so, man.
I haven’t seen anything like this before.
Well, we should tell Director Hampton.
[sighs] I’ll type it up.
This whole place is an anomaly.
It’s so weird.
[signal glitching]
[dramatic music playing]
Tell the Italian military Rome would be flattened if it weren’t for Godzilla.
They can threaten him all they want.
Just tell them to find another scapegoat.
Director Hampton, what’s up?
Well, [sighs] Outpost One is still a nightmare, and they sent this over.
I thought you might want to take a look.
Is this from the sensor array?
Yeah, we’ve been getting some pretty weird spikes.
I mean, it could just be regular interference.
Yeah, but it keeps happening.
Mm-hmm.
We should prep a survey team just in case.
Okay.
And what about Godzilla?
Oh, he’s still sleeping. Like a big angry baby.
[Ilene] Let’s hope it stays that way.
[school bell ringing]
[indistinct chatter]
[teacher] Everyone, eyes on your own paper, all right?
Let’s make sure we circle the answers
[muffled] really, really clearly.
[suspenseful music playing]
[muffled speaking]
[scratching]
[mysterious music playing]
[signal humming]
[music swells]
[teacher] Jia!
[music fades]
[students murmuring]
[slow dramatic music playing]
[teacher] Your daughter is intelligent,
but she’s not engaged.
Her grades are slipping,
she’s not interacting with any of her friends.
And these problems aren’t going away, Doctor Andrews.
They’ve been getting worse. [Sighs]
Okay, I’m sorry.
She’s just still adjusting to our world.
I understand that, but we have a number of students who are culturally displaced and…
Sure, but her culture’s not displaced, she is her culture.
She’s the last living member of the Iwi tribe.
We’re just trying to reach her.
I know. Join the club.
[slow dramatic music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[in sign language] What’s up?
Nothing.
I’m worried about Kong.
[sighs]
Why did you draw this?
Can we go?
Look at me.
I don’t belong here!
I don’t belong anywhere.
You belong with me.
And I belong with you.
[Jia sighs]
Come on.
[crickets chirping]
[narrator on TV] For centuries,
the Iwi tribe were the guardians of Skull Island,
the ancestral home of the great Kong.
But when shifting storm patterns
destroyed the island, the Iwi were annihilated
[sighs] with only a single member
of the tribe having survived.
A young girl…
[Kong roars]
found and rescued amid the punishing storm.
Her fellow villagers were lost to the tides.
Gone to history, just like the great Kongs themselves.
Holy shit.
The Iwi were unique…
[breathing heavily]
in the sense that they had no spoken language.
Many believe that tribe members developed
the ability to communicate…
[sighs]
[dramatic music playing]
[whirring]
[footsteps thudding]
[electricity crackling]
[growling]
[inhales sharply]
[objects clatter in distance]
[breathing heavily]
[continues breathing heavily]
[pensive music playing]
[in sign language] I’m scared something is wrong with me.
There is nothing wrong with you.
You’re perfect.
I feel like I’m going crazy.
[sighs]
We’re gonna figure this out.
[slow dramatic music playing]
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[tapping on table]
Oh, we have got a lot…
[sighs]
to unpack on today’s show.
[loudly] Recording in progress,
go away!
Uh, yes. I just want to let everyone know
that there is no
[knocking on door] I’m gonna kill…
Unbelievable! What?
Uh…
Hi, Bernie.
Ilene Andrews, we met in Hong Kong.
Oh. Oh.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hong Kong. Yeah, that was so long ago.
So, no, God, uh, yeah.
That was when my hair was longer.
You cut your hair. [Chuckles]
Highlights too, it’s nice.
I was wondering if I could get your help with something.
Me?
Mm-hmm.
Uh, sure.
Sure, yeah. Of course, yeah. Come on in, Doctor Andrews.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just straight down that hall there.
To the left. Okay.
Have a seat. What can I help you with?
You know, mi casa es su home.
[Ilene] Okay, so. The sequence on the right,
this is a signal that’s been interfering
with our equipment in Hollow Earth.
Okay.
And, uh…
And these are drawings by my daughter, Jia.
And you’re gonna think that I’m completely insane.
No, the patterns are the same in the middle section.
Yes. Exactly.
[sighs] Thank you.
Look, our analysts,
they don’t know what to make of this.
They’re talking in circles,
they’re saying “radio interference,”
“coincidence,” but I…
I know that you think outside of the box.
[chuckles] I didn’t know who else to turn to.
And they sent you here because…?
No, no one sent me. I came here on my…
You know, that’s what’s ironic.
You know, Monarch wouldn’t confirm
my crucial part in taking down Mechagodzilla,
which cost me thousands of
hundreds of subscribers on my blog.
Oh, and the trolls [chuckles]
the trolls online, they question
every single thing that I put up.
Especially this one troll.
This one troll named ghidorastan64.
You ever heard of him?
No, I don’t think I have.
Great,
because he’s a trash bag, okay?
I’m more qualified than half of those people
that you have working over there.
I knew what Godzilla was going to do
before anybody at Monarch said…
Which is why I am here, Bernie. [Chuckles]
I am here. Okay?
Can you help me or not?
That depends.
Are you the new boss down at the Mess?
The what?
The Monarch Hollow Earth Station.
The MHES, the Mess.
Yeah, nobody calls it that.
I run the Kong research division
but technically Director Hampton is in charge
of general operations.
Hmm.
Well, Director Hampton doesn’t have a kid
who can talk to Kong.
You want to go to Hollow Earth.
[gasps excitedly] I’m so glad I didn’t have to say it.
I thought you were never gonna ask
but I really do need proof.
No, I’m not asking.
I mean, that would help me with my bona fides
for my blog. And I knew that you would be the person
to help me do that.
[cell phone buzzing]
Okay. Well, if this happens, and that is a big if,
then Monarch would need, you know,
whatever you guys call it. Final cut on anything in…
[Bernie] Whoa. I’m sorry, final cut? No, no, no.
You know, that will destroy my journalistic integrity.
Shit.
No really true, good documentarian gives final cut.
I could make you a producer.
Okay, okay! Fine! Final cut! Final cut! Fine!
Look, something is happening to my daughter,
and I have no idea how to fix it.
You work out what’s going on,
and I will get you anything that you want, okay?
That is a promise.
Well, anything is a lot,
but that’s very generous, but I…
And we have to go. Right now.
What?
Godzilla is on the move again.
[ominous music playing]
[dramatic music playing]
[roaring]
[roaring]
[distant rumbling]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ilene] Okay, listen to me.
If Godzilla’s on the move, he senses a threat coming.
We don’t know what it is.
[man on phone] And you’re not concerned?
Of course we’re concerned, Senator.
That’s why we’re monitoring the situation.
[Senator] Monitor the fact that if Godzilla heads…
What is it? You just…
And I am telling you,
We have a problem!
Senator
that Kong doesn’t leave Hollow Earth.
Which is why Godzilla has no reason to retaliate.
[alarm blaring]
[dramatic music playing]
[grunts]
[indistinct chatter]
What’s he doing up here?
No idea.
Well, does Godzilla know?
Not that we can tell.
Yeah, well, it’s only a matter of time.
And what happens if Godzilla starts heading this way?
Then we all run like hell.
[Monarch agent 1] Get up, let’s go!
Keep it up. Come on. Let’s go.
[groaning weakly]
[in sign language] He’s hurt.
[Ilene sighs]
[groaning softly]
[Ilene sighs]
[Monarch agent 2] Sedatives in place.
[man over radio] All right, the good news is
it’s just an infected tooth.
But luckily, you’ve come to the best doctor in town.
[“I Got’cha” playing over stereo]
[mouthing] ♪ I gotcha ♪
♪ I gotcha ♪
[Monarch agent] All right, Kong sedation at a 100%.
Vitals stable.
Trapper, you are clear to swap
the damaged tooth with replacement.
[buzzer sounds]
Way-hey! [Laughing]
Touchdown, Trapper.
[Kong snoring]
[grunts]
[Kong exhales]
Whoa. Fella.
What’d you have for breakfast?
[“I Got’cha” continues playing]
[loudly] All right?
Yeah, this sucker’s ready to come out.
[whirring]
Whoa.
All right, let’s roll!
[engine accelerating]
[tooth squelches]
[Kong groans]
[laughs]
[door hissing]
[intriguing music playing]
There she is.
Trapper.
Thanks for getting down here so fast. Nice work.
You are most welcome.
It’s not every day you get to climb
inside a 300-foot ape’s mouth, is it?
Yeah. And you’re sure it’s gonna be strong enough?
The tooth? Yeah.
That’s the same polymer composite
they use on the vehicle heat shields.
[groans sadly]
[Trapper] He could chomp through
the Eiffel Tower with that thing.
[chuckles] Well, good teeth aren’t gonna help
if Godzilla senses that he’s up here.
Well. You can’t have a Titan with a toothache,
can you? [Chuckles]
No.
Don’t worry.
Couple of hours he might be a bit groggy,
but he’ll be good to go back down.
You know, when I first heard that you were gonna be a vet I thought no.
That is way too boring
for Trapper.
[chuckles]
Then you go and become the weirdest vet in the world.
Yeah, it’s basically me and Doctor Dolittle.
Except my animals are bigger.
I thought finally, someone has made him grow up.
Nope. Someone tried that back in college,
but… didn’t really work.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah, what was it she said to me?
“Trapper, you are not a serious person.”
Oh, she sounds very smart.
Yeah, ish. She got a PhD.
Two, actually.
[chuckles]
How’s the kid doing?
[Ilene] You know. Struggling.
Trying to find her place in the world.
Yeah, I know how that goes.
Don’t worry, she’ll be all right.
She got a good mum.
[in sign language] Rest.
You’ll feel better.
[groans softly]
Looks good.
[grunts softly]
Doctor Andrews. Your guest has been asking for you.
[Bernie] Please don’t take this the wrong way,
but can I just say,
that your research library has many glaring omissions.
I had to call in some serious favors
from my Discord chat. They were not…
Bernie, do you have something?
Yes, I’ve got something. I do have something.
Whatever signal you guys are picking up,
okay, we have seen similar patterns repeating over time.
And each spike corresponds with a specific Titan event.
Can you hold this, please? Thank you so much.
Okay, check this out.
See this? King Ghidorah, huh? First encounter with Godzilla.
Mm-hmm.
Here, uh,
discovery of Skull Island.
All right. So what you’re saying is that these signals
aren’t just random patterns.
Yeah, it seems that way, yes.
And Godzilla’s picking up on it?
Oh, I can do you one better. Now, look,
I’ve looked at points of similarities
in each wave form and I compared them
to that pattern, and…
Bernie, what are you saying?
It’s a distress call!
It’s a distress call. A psychic energy SOS.
Now, if your daughter is seeing these symbols,
then something down there is calling for help.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ilene] Regular sound waves,
they can’t propagate this far without decay. This?
This is something that we have never encountered.
And it’s getting stronger.
You got a working theory?
Yeah, telepathic alien language.
It’s some sort of distress signal.
Signal? From what?
Or from who.
Well, whatever it is,
this is why Godzilla’s on the move?
We can’t say for sure. But it seems that way.
[Hampton] Well, we have to figure this out fast.
The wolves are already at our door.
The government has been looking for an excuse
to take over Hollow Earth operations.
And the corporations are licking their chops.
Yeah, because who wants to be rich
and get rid of all the monsters?
I mean, that’d be terrible, right?
We’d better find the source before D.C. gets wind of this.
[sighs] Okay.
I’m giving you full operational oversight.
Take a small team. Mikael, make it fast
and don’t let anyone die.
We’ll be in and out of there before nightfall.
You, uh, you feel like going for a ride?
Thought you’d never ask.
[dramatic music playing]
[alarm blaring]
[announcer over PA] Attention, all hands.
Prepare HEAV three for Hollow Earth launch
in T minus five minutes.
[Mikael] There’s no response from the Hollow Earth outpost.
Their radios must be down.
Well, then that’s our first stop.
[Mikael] Copy that.
[in sign language] I want to go with you.
There are a thousand reasons it’s not safe for you down there.
Something is calling me.
“You belong with me, I belong with you.”
Gonna use my own words against me?
Really?
Besides, you may need me for Kong.
[alarm blaring]
[sighs]
All right, wakey wakey, everyone. Kong’s up.
[grunting softly]
You will stay near me at all times.
[dramatic synth music playing]
Hey. Hey! Doctor Andrews. Hey. Come on, we had a deal!
Bernie, this isn’t sightseeing.
It’s a reconnaissance mission.
[scoffs] So, I see how it is.
When you need something, it’s all
“you’re so smart, Bernie, you’re so capable, Bernie,
“I’ll subscribe to your Titan blog, Bernie,”
and when I deliver it, you toss me aside.
Okay, look. This could be dangerous.
[scoffs] Come on.
[chuckles] I’m no stranger to danger.
I didn’t mean to rhyme that time.
Look, you owe me. Okay? I helped crack this thing.
This could be like last time, when we saved the world.
Remember? Hmm?
Mikael?
Yeah.
Prep a seat for one more.
Thank you, Doctor Andrews! You will not regret it.
You’re kidding, right?
I’m the plus one. Hello.
[sighs]
[grunts]
[automated voice] Systems online.
Whoa. Oh. Whoa.
[system powering up]
We’re online. [Chuckles]
We are going to Hollow Earth.
I am going to Hollow Earth.
Oh, my God. What am I doing?
So, is there, like, a in-flight briefing
that I should know about? You know…
Yeah, there is.
He’s very…
There’s no parachutes, no flotation devices,
you touch any of this stuff,
you lose your hand, and if you die,
make sure it’s outside my vehicle.
Good briefing. Great briefing.
Don’t take Mikael too personally.
Aggression is his love language.
[button clicks]
[“Twilight Zone” playing]
All right, Mikael. Let’s punch it.
[electricity buzzing]
[yawning]
[announcer over radio] HEAV one,
you are clear for launch.
Let’s do this.
[engine thruster pulses]
[Bernie grunts]
[chuckles nervously]
[Bernie screaming]
[Bernie continues screaming]
[panting]
Just try not to swallow your tongue.
What? Try not to swallow my tongue?
I don’t exactly know what that means.
[Bernie panting]
[announcer over radio] Base to HEAV,
you’re clear for entry.
On your count,
Doctor Andrews.
Three.
All right, let’s go.
[Ilene] Two.
[Bernie] I’m not ready.
[Ilene] And one.
[Bernie] Oh, my God!
[glitching]
[vortex pulsing]
[screaming]
[breathing heavily]
[Mikael screaming]
[shrieking]
[whimpering] I’m turning into water.
[distorted screaming]
[distorted laughing]
[whoops]
[“Twilight Zone” resumes]
[system powering up]
[automated voice] Flight systems active.
[panting] Systems stabilized.
[laughing]
[Mikael] All systems good,
Doc.
How’s everyone doing?
You all right?
Never better.
Yeah?
Bernie, you good?
[grunts softly]
Nice one. [Panting] Oh, wow.
[Ilene] Whew.
[dramatic synth music playing]
[panting]
[chuckles in disbelief]
[Ilene] Looks like Kong is headed home.
How far to the outpost?
[Mikael] Hundred klicks.
They’re still not answering comms.
[automated voice] Proximity alert.
[creatures screeching]
[Mikael] Predators, nine o’clock.
Where? What?
[Trapper] Those are vertacines, Mikael.
They’re called vertacines.
Um, are they a problem?
[mouthing]
[Trapper] No. They’re totally harmless.
Unless you get ’em riled up, and then they pack
about a lightning bolt worth of bio electricity.
[screeching]
Predators know to stay well away.
Which makes them the perfect chaperone
if you happen to have a cool biomimicry camouflage.
Which we do.
[vertacines calling]
[alarm blaring in distance]
Talk to me.
[tech analyst] It’s not good.
Godzilla just made landfall in France.
Ground team is five klicks out.
[thrilling music playing]
[soldier 1 speaking French] Ground to Monarch station
we’re closing in on Godzilla’s position.
[in English] We got picture.
[Hampton] Oh, my God. It’s a nuclear facility.
[thrilling music continues]
[soldier 2 speaking French] The reactors are compromised!
This whole area is irradiated!
[loudly] We need to retreat!
[tech analyst in English] Atmospheric radiation levels
are dropping. He’s absorbing it.
Okay, he’s charging for something.
[energy charging]
[roaring]
[roaring]
[roaring]
[explosion]
[energy powering up]
[nuclear pulse blasts]
[roaring]
[Hampton, distorted] Godzilla consumed
a huge amount of radiation.
He is clearly preparing for something…
[automated voice] Out of range.
Damn it.
[Mikael] We’re coming up on Outpost One.
[engine accelerating]
[vertacines screeching]
Oh, God.
Oh, well, now. That doesn’t look good now, does it?
[Mikael] You seeing this, Doc?
Yeah. Yeah, I’m seeing it.
[suspenseful music playing]
[electricity crackling]
Well, there’s no heat signatures.
So much for survivors.
God, have some respect. These people had families.
[sighs] What could have done this?
I don’t understand,
we’ve had this outpost for years without incident.
So, why attack now? What changed?
Hey, Doc. There’s a camera here.
You reckon you can pull any footage off of that?
Oh, shit.
[foreboding music playing]
You think Kong did that?
No, that’s not Kong. That’s something else.
Yeah. Let’s get off the ground
before that something else comes back.
[Mikael] Saddle up. Let’s hustle.
[foreboding music swells]
[Kong grunts]
[grunts inquisitively]
[distant roar]
[grunting]
[thrilling music playing]
[Kong grunts]
[roaring]
[loud thud echoes]
[battle axe humming]
[mystical music playing]
[somber music playing]
[Kong groans]
[distant roar echoes]
[stirring music playing]
[sniffing]
[growls]
[suspenseful music playing]
[growls]
[gasps]
[cooing]
[mini-Kong shudders]
[grunts softly]
[whimpers softly]
[mini-Kong hesitating]
[mini-Kong snarling]
[groans]
[mini-Kong screeching]
[Kong growls]
[growling]
[Kong and apes growling]
[straining, grunts]
[growls]
[growls]
[all grunting]
[ape 1 growls]
[snarls]
[mini-Kong screeching]
[Kong grunting]
[snarling]
[mini-Kong yelping]
[mini-Kong yelping, growls]
[Kong grunting]
[ape 2 snarls]
[ape 2 screams]
[growls]
[ape 1 gasps]
[groans]
[flapping lips]
[snarls]
[mini-Kong growling]
[roaring]
[screeches]
[sniffs]
[Kong grunts]
[whimpering]
[squeals]
[Kong roars]
[whimpers]
[squawking]
[Kong roars]
[dramatic music playing]
[tablet trilling]
[Ilene sighs]
Are you getting anything off that thing?
Yeah, I’m just…
Oh, my God.
What?
Here. Take a look.
It looks like an ape. But that’s impossible.
What the bloody hell is that?
I have no idea.
[signal glitching]
Whoa! No! [Screams]
[Ilene] Whoa.
[Trapper] Mikael! Mikael!
I’m working on it!
Come on, you…
[Bernie] God! Okay, okay, okay!
[engine thrusters roaring]
The hell was that, Mikael?
Calm down. Calm down.
It must’ve been the signal. The same electrical
disturbances were happening at the outpost.
[in sign language] It’s getting stronger.
[Bernie] Oh, come on. Come on. It came from around there.
You sure…?
[sighs heavily]
She says it’s coming from that ridge point.
Well, let’s take a look.
[Mikael] I’ll get as close as I can.
[door whirring and hissing]
[birds calling]
[mysterious music playing]
[gasps in disbelief]
The Hollow Earth.
[gasps]
A world untouched by mankind.
Is this how Neil Armstrong felt
when he stepped on alien soil?
[over video] Is this one small step for me,
and one giant leap for…
Who are you talking to?
Are you kidding me?
Right down the lens? It’s a documentary.
You wanna be natural. Just walk, if you just walk.
All right, just keep…
Yeah, just… Okay. Take two.
[Bernie clears throat]
The Hollow Earth. A world…
[Mikael] All right, guys. That ridge you pointed out
is about two miles straight ahead.
[mosquitos buzzing]
I’m getting eaten alive out here.
[mosquito buzzing]
Oh, look at that. I must be tasty too.
Kill it.
Only female mosquitos drink blood.
So they can grow their eggs.
[mosquito buzzing]
She needs it more than me.
[captivating music playing]
[Trapper] Wait.
[Ilene] What?
What’s the holdup?
Not this way.
What? Why?
Yeah, we gotta take a detour. There’s something here.
Where, here? Like here, here?
[Ilene] Hey.
Nah. I’m not picking anything up.
No. Something doesn’t smell right,
and it’s not just you, Mikael.
Can you smell that? It’s like rotting flesh.
It’s probably just a carcass upwind.
We keep moving.
Mikael, hold up.
Listen, pal. I’m gonna trust
my state of the art thermal over your.
Ace Ventura hippie-dip pie sixth sense
all day long. You got me?
There’s no need to call people names. We’re just…
Hey. And as for you, freak show,
if you don’t shut it, I’m gonna take that camera,
I’m gonna shove it right up your arse.
I’m in charge, we move.
Why don’t we just listen to somebody calmer?
I said I’m in charge.
I’m in charge! [Yells]
[Bernie] Whoa!
[all gasp]
Run!
[screams]
[tree crunching]
[Bernie whimpering]
[tree belches]
[Bernie] It was a tree. It was a tree!
[Trapper] Wait, wait, wait.
We should be all right. We should be all right.
Those things don’t reach that far.
He was just eaten by a tree.
[Trapper] What you doing, Doc?
[radio beeps]
[Ilene] I’m trying to call the Base for extraction.
[Bernie] It’s just, one minute he was there, right?
He was right in my face. And then, a tree!
Outta nowhere!
I know, man.
I know. That’s heavy.
But that’s the natural world, man.
“Red in tooth and claw.”
Tennyson. You just watched a man
get devoured by a topiary nightmare,
and you want to quote Tennyson? Down here?
Yeah. Yeah, man. He knew all about it.
“Let love clasp grief,” man. Come here.
[Bernie] Mm.
You know, humans, we think we took
ourselves off the food chain,
but maybe, maybe the Titans are here to remind us.
I think that there is something
seriously wrong with you.
Okay.
Mm-kay.
Okay.
Mm.
[radio beeps]
[sighs] It’s not working.
We better move on. We’ll mourn later.
Jia. Come on.
Come on, bud.
But the…
He was eaten by a tree.
I don’t… I don’t want to die like that.
Not by a tree.
[crowd screaming]
[Godzilla growling]
[pilot over radio] Tower,
we can’t get any closer than this.
Godzilla’s burning hot with radiation.
Whatever he’s headed for has him really pissed off.
[roaring]
[Hampton over radio] This is Base
calling Fifteen Alpha, over.
Fifteen Alpha responding.
Godzilla’s current trajectory is showing
[over radio] him heading towards the Arctic Ocean.
[Hampton] What Titans are in the area?
[alerts beeping]
[commander] Looks like he’s hunting Tiamat.
[automated voice] Classified file three two four.
Titanus Tiamat.
Titan nineteen.
Extremely aggressive, territorial.
Weaponizing her body of razor-sharp scales…
Tiamat’s Arctic lair sits in the direct path
of electromagnetically charged solar winds,
making it the largest stockpile of energy on Earth.
If Godzilla takes down Tiamat, he’ll supercharge.
[gasps]
[Ilene] It’s ruins.
Human civilization?
Down here?
[Ilene] Hey.
[in sign language] These are the symbols of my people!
Yeah.
The markings are older than the ones
on Skull Island. Centuries older.
[Ilene gasps]
But the architecture is consistent with the Iwi.
[in sign language] What happened to them?
[mystical music playing]
Whoa.
Oh, this is remarkable.
[camera clicks]
Now, that’s weird.
There’s no moss on these ones.
Hello.
[Ilene] Mothra.
[Bernie] Queen of the monsters. In Hollow Earth.
[Ilene] Her lineage must go back further than we thought.
[breathing heavily]
[in sign language] This site was a temple
a place of worship.
Yeah.
[insects chittering]
No, no, no.
[stones thudding]
[intriguing music playing]
[Bernie] What is that? Whoa!
[Bernie chuckles]
Hey!
[Bernie and Trapper] Whoa, whoa, whoa!
[Bernie] It’s like some kind of a irrigation system. [Laughs]
Only this predates everything.
Mesopotamians, the Lemurians…
I mean, these guys were the first, man!
Jia.
[Bernie] It just keeps going.
Wait, wait, wait.
Oh. Sorry.
[Trapper] Oh, whoa. What the…?
Now, that is a trip.
Great Mulder and Scully, look at that.
What could have created this?
Ancient alien astronauts.
Yeah.
[eerie music playing]
[Trapper] Look at this here.
The water’s running underneath.
And this is organic.
[crackles]
Yeah.
Some kind of bio electric hub.
[Bernie chuckles]
[Trapper] It’s like camouflage. [Chuckles]
Wow.
[electricity crackling]
Should she be doing that?
She shouldn’t be doing that, right? Should she…?
[Ilene grunting]
[mystical music playing]
[Trapper chuckles]
[enthralling music playing]
[Ilene gasps]
[in sign language] From my dreams.
This must be the source of the signal.
Oh, we’ve gotta check this out.
Yeah.
[Ilene grunts]
[Ilene] Okay. Go, go, go. Go.
[enthralling music continues]
[whimpers]
[creatures screeching]
[Kong grunts]
[grumbles]
[huffs]
[creature croaking]
[insect squeaking]
[creatures squawking]
[mini-Kong grumbles]
[dramatic music playing]
[sniffing]
[sinister music playing]
[hooting]
[squealing happily]
[grunts and sniffs]
[Kong groans]
[slurping]
[water rippling]
[sinister music playing]
[Kong grunts]
[growls]
[hissing, snarls]
[Kong roars]
[mini-Kong shrieking]
[snarling]
[both grunting]
[Kong roaring]
[roars]
[yelping]
[whines, coughs]
[gasps]
[Kong growling]
[grunts]
[yelps]
[snorts]
[mini-Kong whining]
[groans softly, snorts]
[whimpers]
[Kong grunts]
[growls]
[Kong grunts]
[mini-Kong yelps]
[grunts softly]
[whimpers]
[soft music playing]
[commander over radio] Fifteen Alpha reporting to base.
We’re entering Tiamat’s domain,
but something is off.
Tiamat’s energy is distorting our radar.
We don’t have a visual on Godzilla.
Take us forward, silent running…
Yes, sir.
Five knots.
[all grunting]
[submariner] Mayday!
Get that out!
[energy pulses, explodes]
[Tiamat screeching]
[screeching]
[roars]
[both screeching and growling]
[Tiamat screeching]
[Tiamat snarls]
[roars]
[atomic breath powering up]
Get that out!
[submariner 1] I need a status report!
[submariner 2] That’s right.
[commander] He’s gone to Tiamat’s lair.
Wait, wait, wait.
[signing]
Wait, what did she say?
She says we’re not alone.
See? I knew it. I knew I felt something.
Come on, then.
[screaming]
[tense music playing]
[Ilene gasps] Go.
[Bernie] Oh, my God. [Gasps]
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
It’s going away. It’s going away. Okay.
[suspenseful music playing]
[tense music playing]
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
[dramatic music playing]
[Ilene] What?
[Bernie gasps]
It’s an entire Iwi civilization,
protected within Hollow Earth.
[gasps]
These structures, they look like they’ve been
carved from some enormous quartz crystal.
That must be their energy source.
I’m feeling the energy,
but let’s just keep it together, all right?
[in sign language] I can feel their thoughts.
Oh, my God. It’s an undocumented vortex.
Looks like several of them, actually.
Routes to the surface.
These could lead all over the Earth.
[Bernie] Oh, wow. That’s incredible.
You should make eye contact with them.
It’s considered polite.
[Bernie clears throat]
[splutters] Yeah, this is not working for me.
[bell tolling, echoes]
Oh.
[bell tolling, echoes]
[mystical music playing]
How are they communicating?
Telepathically.
[Ilene] Okay. No, I, no, no, no. You can’t take her.
I think she’s taking her to the…
Well, let me come! Hey! Hey! Hey!
[Bernie] Hold on, okay, we’re not resisting.
Wait, wait, wait.
I don’t know where she’s taking her! Hey!
[in sign language] It’s okay.
[breathing heavily]
Okay.
[soft music playing]
[Ilene sighs]
[dramatic music builds]
[indistinct voice whispering]
[soft music playing]
[Bernie yelps]
Okay, come on. Okay.
Let’s go, let’s go.
[bell tolling, echoes]
[Bernie] Whoa. Oh. [Echoing]
Can I?
Thank you.
[in sign language] This is where it came from.
Of course.
[Trapper] What’s she saying, Doc?
The beacon that we’ve been following, it’s…
It’s the Iwi calling for help.
[Trapper] Oh. Whoa.
[Ilene gasps]
So, wait. They send out this SOS, and then what?
Godzilla hears it?
Yeah. They woke him up.
An SOS for what? They already live
in a nightmare monster hellscape.
What could possibly scare them?
Hey. She can understand everything that you say.
She understands me?
Oh, good.
And a nightmare monster hellscape
is a wonderful place to raise a family.
[Bernie shudders]
[thunder rumbling]
[bones creaking]
[mini-Kong hooting]
[mysterious music playing]
[liquid chiming]
[energy humming]
[Bernie breathing heavily]
[Bernie laughs]
[Trapper] Oh, wow.
[Ilene] This whole room is covered in Iwi script.
It says that in the beginning,
Hollow Earth lived in harmony with the surface world.
The Titans were the guardians of nature
and the Great Apes became the protectors of humanity.
But a great evil threatened the peace.
A powerful and ruthless ape
desperate to conquer the surface world,
led his tribe into war against the one they call…
The Monster Who Ate a Star.
Godzilla.
[Ilene] There’s more.
The war with the Apes nearly destroyed Godzilla.
But after a great battle,
he imprisoned the apes
in a fiery realm of Hollow Earth.
Their false king remains obsessed
with reaching the surface.
The Iwi call him the Skar King.
[ominous music playing]
[distant roars and growling]
[creature bellowing]
[mini-Kong grunting]
[dramatic music playing]
[gasps]
[apes groaning]
[mini-Kong whines]
[whimpers]
[apes grunting]
[whimpers]
[ape hooting]
[grunts softly]
[straining]
[gasps]
[guard growls]
[ape groans]
[growls]
[mini-Kong grunts]
[battle axe clangs]
[ape groans]
[guard growls, snarls]
[snarls and growls]
[groans weakly]
[roars]
[shrieks]
[whimpers]
[ape 2 grunting]
[groans]
[growls]
[hooting]
[ape 3 roars]
[growling]
[ape 3 roaring]
[shrieks]
[sinister music playing]
[roars]
[roaring]
[growling]
[Kong grunts]
[laughing]
[apes laughing]
[stops laughing]
[whimpers]
[growls]
[mini-Kong shrieks]
[roaring]
[grunting softly]
[both growling]
[ape 3 roars]
[fire roars]
[mini-Kong screeching]
[wailing]
[roaring]
[roaring]
[roars]
[apes grunting]
[apes thumping rhythmically]
[Kong yelps]
[blade slices]
[Kong groans]
[roaring]
[groans]
[Kong choking]
[grunting]
[growls]
[apes grunting]
[roaring]
[grunting]
[ominous music playing]
[screeching]
[lava bubbling]
[growling]
[exhales]
[thuds]
[roaring]
[chains clanking]
[ape 3 growls]
[blade chimes]
[roaring]
[blade chimes]
[groans weakly]
[energy charging up]
[roars]
[groaning]
[growls]
[energy charging up]
[mini-Kong screeching]
[apes screeching]
[Ilene] Trapped within their subterranean realm,
the Skar King harnessed a terrible power.
The ancient Titan, Shimo.
[Shimo screeching]
[Ilene] He controls her with pain.
Her power covered the Earth in the last ice age.
We brought Kong down here.
He’s been looking for others like himself,
going deeper into Hollow Earth
and getting closer to their prison.
The Iwi must have known it was just a matter of time,
and that’s why they’ve been
calling for help, and that’s why Godzilla’s changing.
He’s gearing up for World War Three.
Okay, but he barely survived last time.
What’s Godzilla gonna do on his own?
He won’t be on his own.
The Iwi believe that at the end of the world,
one of their own will return,
and awaken Mothra, defender of the Iwi,
and ancient ally of Godzilla.
They believe that their savior will be
an Iwi from Skull Island.
That seems like a lot to put on one kid.
[dramatic music playing]
[creatures screeching]
[apes growling]
[gasps]
[growling]
[groans]
[apes growling]
[ape grunts]
[tense music playing]
[apes shrieking]
[dramatic music playing]
[hooting]
[groans weakly]
[Kong groaning]
[ape growls]
[pilot over radio] This is Monarch Air Team to Base,
tracking over Godzilla’s location.
We’ve closed the shipping lanes within 300 miles.
Plasma readings indicate he’s absorbing everything in there.
[energy pulsing]
[Ilene] You know, I made a deal with myself
when I became a mother.
I said to myself, “I don’t care what you have to sacrifice
what you have to give up,
you will do right by that little girl.”
[children laughing]
I just never thought that
the thing I’d be giving up would be her.
Look, you don’t know that.
Really?
Trapper, before we came here
she said that she didn’t belong anywhere.
If this is the life that she wants,
then I have to give her up.
[rumbling]
[Trapper] Am I having a funny turn
or does everything feel lighter down here?
[Bernie mumbles incoherently]
[Bernie] Wait, wait, wait.
[Bernie gasps, chuckles]
[Trapper] What are they doing? That must weigh a ton.
[Bernie] Yeah. Yeah, see,
I don’t know how they can do it, but somehow they’re able to move the pyramids’ positions, which disrupts the gravitational pull down here, and that’s how they run their city.
An entire civilization built off the manipulation of gravity.
God, I wish was streaming this live!
What you gonna do with that, Bern?
Look, I know what you’re thinking,
but you don’t understand. Okay?
To have been through what I’ve been through, seen what I seen and have absolutely nobody believe you.
This place…
This place is special, man. It’s magic.
How long do you think it’ll stay like that if you start posting that about, hmm?
Like, you look at any isolated tribe or community, how many of them survive contact with the outside world, hmm?
You know I think you’re brilliant, don’t you?
You already saved the world once.
Can’t take that away from you.
Could you say that all again?
The last part, so I have it on footage.
What?
[horn bellows]
Oh, well, we have to find out what that was, right?
[people grunting]
[chattering]
[snorts]
Oh, my God.
[Kong grunts, snorts]
[Bernie] Is that a mini-Kong?
How did they find this place?
He must have sensed Jia.
[groans weakly]
[mini-Kong exclaims]
[muffled, weak heartbeat]
[somber music playing]
[in sign language] I lost home.
[Ilene] That arm looks bad.
Yeah. That’s worse than bad.
That’s frostbite.
[chatters softly]
I’d better go take a look.
[chattering violently]
[music swells]
[grunting]
[snarls]
[apes whimper]
[roars]
[roars]
[powering up]
[roars]
[female automated voice] Warning, detecting altered energy signature.
[Hampton] Oh, my God. He’s changed.
[grunts weakly]
I know, I know. Nobody likes a dentist.
Let’s get a look at that arm, big guy.
[device trilling]
Trapper, he looks really hurt.
Yeah, it’s not great. I’m seeing nerve damage significant tissue loss.
[Ilene] So, what are we saying?
He’s not gonna last a day down here with only one arm.
Yeah, communication to the surface is still out.
If I can get back to the outpost,
I think there might be some supplies that we can use.
I don’t think a massive cast is gonna solve the problem.
I wasn’t talkin’ plaster of Paris.
I’m thinking more along the lines of, uh…
Project Powerhouse.
[thrilling music playing]
You can’t be serious?
Oh, I’m deadly serious.
That prototype was almost finished when they pulled the funding.
All right, well, what are you still doing here?
I love you, too, Doc.
Project Powerhouse, what is… what is that, exactly?
[Ilene] After Mechagodzilla, we realized that there were some threats that even Kong couldn’t face.
So, we started working on some minor augmentations.
Oh.
Wait, what kind of augmentations?
[Ilene] Making one of the strongest Titans even stronger didn’t go over so well.
So, we got shut down.
Lucky for us, the prototype had already been transported to Hollow Earth for testing.
It’s stored in the armory at Outpost One.
[music swells, ends]
[“I Was Made For Lovin’ You” playing]
[laughs]
♪ Tonight, I want To give it all to you ♪
[female automated voice] Autopilot engaged.
[machinery whirring]
♪ There’s so much I want to do ♪
♪ I was made For lovin’ you, baby ♪
♪ You were made For lovin’ me ♪
[groans in pain]
Woo-hoo!
What do you think of that?
That’s one hell of an augmentation there, Trapper.
[Trapper] Only the best for Mr. Kong.
[ice crackling]
[both roar]
[chattering]
[grunts softly]
All right, it’s ready to go.
Those injections should heal the frostbite up nicely.
[augmentation crackling, powering up]
[Bernie] All right, there he goes.
He’s moving.
You got this.
[Kong grunts]
Look, it’s a bit rough and ready, but it should hold.
It’s good. It looks good, Trapper.
Damn good.
[snorts, snarls]
Here we go.
Yeah.
He’s either gonna love it or he’s gonna rip it off with his teeth.
[roars]
[exclaims] I think he loves it! Yeah?
[mini-Kong grunts, chatters]
[grunts]
Skar King.
[grunts]
Hey, hey! What did you tell him?
[in sign language] I told him we need help.
Oh.
[Bernie] Where’s he going?
Godzilla won’t come down here unless Kong brings him.
[Bernie] Okay, the last time those two met up it was almost the end of Kong.
[Trapper] He is taking a hell of a risk.
If Kong invades his turf, could start a war.
Yeah, that’s a suicide mission.
But if Kong draws Godzilla down here they can make their stand in Hollow Earth and then there’s a chance that
Godzilla can stop Skar King and Shimo from reaching the surface.
[indistinct chatter]
[rumbling]
[woman exclaims in Arabic]
[people clamor]
[horns honking]
[people scream]
[people scream]
[roars]
[roars]
[tense instrumental music playing]
We are absolutely certain that she can pull this off, right?
[Ilene] It’s why Jia was called here.
Only an Iwi from Skull Island can awaken Mothra.
And Mothra is the key to Godzilla protecting this place, and its pathways to the surface.
[softly] She’s gonna be all right.
Uh-huh.
She’s gonna be all right.
[trilling, resonating]
[Bernie gasps softly]
[trilling]
[Mothra moans]
[musical flourish]
[chitters]
[Mothra screeches, clicks]
[Mothra screeches]
[Bernie] Hey, she’s evacuating the villagers.
Gravity! Gravity! The pyramids and gravity.
Yeah, I got it! I got it now!
[Ilene] Tell me on the way.
[Bernie] Come on, come on!
While we are throwing random shit at the wall, permission to take the HEAV? Rally some reinforcements.
To the surface? No, there’s no time.
No, this idea’s way weirder than that.
[thrilling music playing]
[growls]
[snarls]
[people screaming]
[grunts]
[roars]
[Kong exclaims, grunts]
[Godzilla groans]
[augmentation powers up]
[metal clangs]
[atomic breath swells]
[Kong exclaims]
[atomic breath swells]
[distant shriek]
[Mothra moans]
[Godzilla grunts]
[screeches]
[dramatic synth music playing]
[roars]
[music swells]
[roars]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ilene] All right, we’re underneath the pyramids.
Now what?
Gravity. [Exhales sharply]
Iwi technology.
[pulsing]
With the chemical reaction, this liquid metal becomes an engineering mechanism forcing the two electromagnetic pyramids together, causing an anti-gravity shock wave.
But only for a few minutes. Or maybe less.
Which should keep those things from the portals.
After that, everything that is up will come crashing down.
[rumbling]
[crackling]
[apes screeching]
They’re here. [Exhales sharply]
[tense music playing]
[roars]
[Shimo roaring]
[crackling]
We’re not gonna make it. There’s not enough time.
We need something to slow them down.
Yeah, but what else can we do?
[vertacine screeching]
[Trapper over radio] It’s vertacine mating season.
[“Turn Me Loose” playing]
No way.
[laughs] ♪ I gotta do it my way ♪
♪ I want to fly ♪
[roaring]
[Bernie yells]
Your carriage awaits.
I’m gonna kiss you on the mouth!
[Ilene] Come on. Go, go.
Buckle up, you beautiful people.
Up and away. Yes!
♪ I gotta do it my way ♪
♪ I want to fly ♪
[tense music playing]
[growls]
[apes grunt]
[grunts]
[rumbling]
[roars]
[Kong snarling]
[roaring]
[thrilling music playing]
[roaring]
[grunts]
[devices beeping]
[Trapper] No! The engine’s out.
The gravity surge must have taken out
the power-battery-thing.
[Godzilla roaring]
[Skar King roars]
[thrilling music continues]
[Kong grunts]
[all screaming]
[triumphant music playing]
Yes! Yes!
She’s protecting the portals.
[Mothra moans]
[Mothra chitters]
[grunting]
[snarls]
[grunts]
[thrilling music playing]
[roars]
[Mothra screeches]
[chitters]
[roars]
[Skar King grunts]
[Kong roars]
[mini-Kong grunting]
[grunts]
[thrilling music continues]
[shouting] Oh, God!
[Mothra screeches]
[Bernie grunts]
[Bernie laughs nervously] Oh.
[roaring]
[Kong roars]
[roars]
[“Samba Toff” playing]
[rumbling]
[crackling]
[“Samba Toff” slows down]
[Godzilla roars]
[grunting]
[tense music playing]
[growls]
[roaring]
[people screaming]
[ice breath swells]
[tense music continues]
[windows shattering]
[roaring]
[rumbling]
[roaring]
[grunts, spits]
[people screaming]
[horns honking]
[thrilling music playing]
[people screaming]
[roars]
[whip slash whines]
[grunts]
[Godzilla roars]
[mini-Kong chitters]
[grunts]
[yells]
[thrilling music playing]
[Skar King roars]
[Kong grunts]
[Kong roars]
[grunts]
[atomic breath swells]
[Godzilla roars]
[roars]
[straining]
[chuckles]
[roars]
[thrilling music continues]
[Skar King roars]
[mini-Kong screeches]
[roars]
[screeches]
[mini-Kong screeching]
[growls]
[mini-Kong screeching]
[mini-Kong grunting]
[chitters]
[roars]
[Skar King gasping]
[thrilling music continues]
[roars]
[ice breath swells]
[roars]
[triumphant music playing]
[Skar King grunting]
[ice shattering]
[roaring]
[atomic breath swells]
[triumphant music continues]
[Mothra chitters]
[enthralling music playing]
[sighs in relief] Look.
Jia, you’re safe! Come here.
[Mothra moans]
[Ilene laughs]
[in sign language] I’m so proud of you.
[somber music playing]
Look, I…
[breath trembling]
[in sign language] I know that this place you feel like is home.
And I want you to know that whatever you decide I support.
What are you talking about?
“What am I talking a…”
I assumed you wanted to stay.
Wherever we go, whatever we do we do it together.
[Ilene sighs]
This place could be your home.
I…
You. Are. My. Home.
[mumbles]
[Ilene cries]
[inhales sharply]
[Bernie sighs]
[“Day After Day” playing]
You all right? Yeah?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
[Mothra moans]
♪ I remember Finding out about you ♪
♪ Every day My mind is all around you ♪
[Bernie] Thank you, thank you.
Yeah, saving the world is kind of our thing.
♪ Looking out From my lonely room ♪
♪ Day after day ♪
[thuds]
♪ Bring it home, baby Make it soon ♪
♪ I give my love to you ♪
[low purring]
[Shimo screeches]
♪ Looking out From my lonely room ♪
♪ Day after day ♪
♪ Bring it home, baby Make it soon ♪
♪ I give my love to you ♪
[all roaring]
[music fades]
[upbeat music playing]
[music fades]
[somber music playing]
[music builds]
[thrilling music playing]
[music builds]
[music fades]
[captivating music playing]
[music fades]
