Adam Wingard is buzzing. The director is Zooming from São Paulo, Brazil, where he’s attending Comic Con – or CCXP, if you prefer. It’s just hours since the first trailer for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire has dropped, and after months and months of blanket secrecy, there have been revelations of some super-cool shit, to use the technical term. Mini Kong! Badass red-ape titan Skar King! All-new images of Hollow Earth! Godzilla boasting a makeover colour scheme! Kong sporting a freaking bionic arm! And in the trailer’s climactic shot, Kong and Godzilla running side by side into battle like some supersized Batman and Robin cloaked in hair and scales.
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