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Apex another working title for Godzilla vs. Kong, is an American science fiction monster picture set for release in 2021, after Legendary Pictures' Godzilla: King of Monsters in 2019 and serving as a prequel to both King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island.

Godzilla vs. Kong had a turbulent development, and was originally set for release on May 29, 2020, before being pushed up to March 13, 2020, only to then be delayed to November 20, 2020, and then May 21, 2021. It then got pushed up to March 26, 2021, before ultimately being released to American theaters on March 31, 2021. The film was also streaming concurrently on HBO Max through to April 30, 2021.

Adam Wingard directed the picture, which was co-produced by Mary Parent, Alex Garcia, Eric McLeod, and Brian Rogers. Eric Pearson and Max Borenstein wrote the script, which was based on a narrative by Terry Rossio, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields. King of Monsters was also written by Borenstein, Dougherty, and Shields. Godzilla vs. Kong takes place five years after King of the Monsters and pits Godzilla and Kong against one another in the aftermath of Ghidorah's rampage.

A sequel to the film is currently under production.

With the destiny of the planet at stake, "Godzilla vs. Kong" brings together two legendary enemies. A treacherous trip leads Kong and his guards to Jia, a little orphaned girl with whom Kong has built an unbreakable connection of love and loyalty. In the path of an infuriated Godzilla, they find themselves. It is simply the start of the enigma that lurks deep below the Earth's core.

On Earth in 2024, five years after Godzilla slew his extraterrestrial opponent Ghidorah, Godzilla and Kong are the only Titans still alive. Monarch has been forced to keep Kong in a facility that resembles Skull Island's surroundings due to a storm unleashed by Ghidorah.

However, when Jia comes to Kong and gives him a doll, the Titan, realizing that he is inside the biodome, quickly throws a tree at it.

But when he finishes downloading the data, Godzilla appears and strikes unexpectedly. The remains of the facility include an odd piece of equipment that resembles a huge robotic eye.

Immediately after the assault, popular opinion began to change against Godzilla, and the monster was no longer seen as humanity's redeemed hero. After hearing the news of Godzilla's latest assault on her school, Madison Russell, now an adult and a listener of Bernie's podcast, is alarmed and calls Bernie to express her concern. After school, she attempts unsuccessfully to reason with her widowed father Mark (who is serving as Monarch's director) about a potential lead on the cause of Godzilla's rampage, but he ignores everything she says, stating merely that beasts, like humans, may evolve, which she finds absurd. Later, Madison enlists the assistance of her closest friend Josh Valentine in order to track down the person responsible for Godzilla's rampage and uncover the mysteries of Apex.

Meanwhile, Apex's founder and CEO, Walter Simmons, recruits Nathan Lind, a former Monarch scientist who has become a Hollow Earth theorist, to assist them in their search for a powerful energy source in the Hollow Earth, an underground world beneath the Earth and the hidden home of the Titans, which is located beneath the surface of the Earth. The fact that Nathan's brother attempted to explore the Hollow Earth and was killed by a powerful anti-gravity field within the tunnel initially makes him wary of going into the Hollow Earth. Apex has invented and built Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles, specialized vehicles that are capable of withstanding the gravity field's pressure, and Walter explains this to him, and he finally accepts.

To assist them in navigating to the Hollow Earth, Nathan travels to Skull Island and approaches his colleague, Monarch anthropological linguist and Jia's adoptive mother Ilene Andrews, with the idea of using Kong as their navigator to guide them to the energy source, as Skull Island is no longer able to contain him and allow him to survive (due to Kong's size). Though Ilene first refuses, explaining that Godzilla will seek Kong immediately upon his removal from Skull Island, she eventually agrees after being persuaded by Nathan that they must undertake this mission in order to put an end to Godzilla's rampage and also locate Kong a new home.

The Apex crew, lead by Walter's daughter Maia, board a customized barge with a barely drugged Kong locked up to keep him from escaping. Jia soothes Kong down by enabling her and Kong to clasp fingers in solidarity while Kong signs the word "home" much to Ilene's surprise. The next day, Ilene tells Nathan about how she raised Jia as her adopted daughter after a series of deadly and unpredictable storms killed all the Iwi and her parents, but Jia was the only one to survive since Kong shielded her, leading to the two of them developing a close friendship.

Titan attacks the army and caps the barge, just avoiding drowning Kong and the other passengers. Ultimately, Nathan manages to save the passengers by loosening Kong's chains and allowing him to swim to the surface and flip the barge, freeing him from his captor's grasp. On a nearby aircraft ship, Godzilla joins Kong in combat. Fighter planes must divert Godzilla long enough so that Kong can force him back into the ocean. Godzilla snatches Kong by the tail and drags him into the ocean, where he intends to drown him in an attempt to evade the atomic bomb.

Their struggle is broken up, however, when Godzilla is distracted by depth charges, allowing Kong to surface for air.

Because they have no other choice, Nathan thinks that the gang should instead shut down all the ships' power to fool Godzilla into believing he destroyed them and Kong was vanquished, which finally works. He swims away, feeling he had triumphed over the enemy, after seeing the obliterated fleet. Since reactivating the ships may bring Godzilla back, they adjust their intentions and instead fly Kong to a Hollow Earth entrance site in Antarctica where Ghidorah had been frozen, where Ghidorah had originally been frozen. After that, Jia shows Kong where his house is, but Kong is apprehensive about going through the front door to see it.

Nathan inquires as to whether Kong would go down the tube if there are others like him if they are unable to return him to Skull Island due to the cold. Ilene responds that he would. Ilene encourages Jia to inquire as to whether Kong's family is present in the area.

A similar habitat to Skull Island exists within the Hollow Earth. They are assaulted by two Warbats, one of which destroys one of the HEAVs while exploring the area. Kong saves the party by killing the first Warbat and swinging its carcass onto the second, which staggers it, but it recovers and constricts itself around him, causing him to fall. Prior to suffocating Kong, Nathan's team's HEAV attacked the Warbat, allowing Kong to escape and pummel the monster to death before munching on its intestines.

Afterwards, Kong and Nathan's crew begin their trek to a large stone temple that formerly belonged to Kong's ancestor. During their explorations, they come upon evidence of a long-ago conflict between Kong's and the Godzilla race, as well as an antique axe crafted from a dead Godzilla member's dorsal plate. To enhance Mechagodzilla's supply of power, Nathan and his crew have discovered the source of the electricity needed to recharge Kong's axe. A spider-like drone is used by Maia and the Apex crew, despite Ilene's protests that Apex cannot just take the discovery of the century and send it back to Hong Kong. Maia has her guards point their rifles at Nathan's crew, only for Kong to fiercely yell at them in their defense. Godzilla, on the other hand, is alerted to the activation of Mechagodzilla and immediately commences a direct attack on Hong Kong.

It's a good thing Godzilla doesn't have the ability to fly. When Maia and her crew attempt to leave their HEAV, Kong pulls it from under their feet and crushes it in his hand, killing Maia and her crew within.

In response to the roar of Godzilla as the monster offers him with another challenge, Kong accepts and continues to make his way through the hole produced by Godzilla's atomic breath to Hong Kong with his axe in hand, with Ilene and Nathan following him in their HEAV. When Kong arrives in Hong Kong and confronts Godzilla, he battles him again again, this time obtaining the upper hand over the Titan to the point that he shoves his axe down Godzilla's throat in order to prevent him from launching his atomic breath again. King Kong realizes that his axe can not only deflect Godzilla's atomic breath, but it can also absorb it, and he uses his weapon to strike the Titan in the thigh, however Godzilla quickly takes the axe and tosses it away. When Godzilla strikes, Kong uses the structures of Hong Kong and his greater agility to escape and evade his blows. After retrieving his axe, he charges it and unleashes an explosion that knocks both Titans back, giving Nathan the impression that Kong has won the second fight.

Back in the Apex base, Walter excitedly orders Ren to send out Mechagodzilla to kill Godzilla. Though Ren warns him against using the new Hollow Earth energy source without testing, Walter ignores his pleas and coldly orders him to activate the mecha. At the same time, Bernie, Madison, and Josh are caught by security for infiltrating Apex headquarters and are taken to Walter. Madison accuses Walter of provoking Godzilla into war and for causing all of this in the first place, though he confidently explains that he accepted the responsibility for giving mankind a chance to fight back against Godzilla and the Titans.

Unknown to Walter as his back is turned while he monologues about his creation, Mechagodzilla suddenly goes haywire under the influence of both the energy source and Ghidorah's neural networks, resulting in the robot killing Walter with a swipe of its hand and Ren's death by electrocution. Mechagodzilla, now possessed by Ghidorah's consciousness, breaks free from the Apex facility underneath Victoria Peak Mountain and rampages through the city before Godzilla confronts it. Quickly coming into contact with Godzilla, Mechagodzilla fires a barrage of missiles at its organic counterpart before the two engage in battle.

Meanwhile, Josh and Bernie try to remotely deactivate the renegade robot, and Madison summons Mark for aid, while Godzilla and Mechagodzilla battle, with Godzilla getting the upper hand and burning Mechagodzilla. Jia observes Kong's pulse diminishing as the three approach him, while Mechagodzilla continues to batter Godzilla. They are unable to generate a large enough charge to restart Kong's heart, but Nathan recalls Maia's earlier remark about the HEAVs producing enough power to power Las Vegas for a week, so he flies the last HEAV onto Kong's chest and sets it to self-destruct, detonating the craft and releasing a massive electrical charge that instantly revives Kong.

Heaps onto the robot and redirects the red energy beam, sparing Godzilla's life, as Mechagodzilla prepares to fire it into his throat. Knowing that Kong saved his life and recognizing that Godzilla is not an opponent, Godzilla aids Kong in his struggle against the mechanical demon Mechagodzilla.

Working together, the two Titans turn the tide, but the robot proves to be stronger than their combined might and overpowers them. Seeing his axe among the wreckage after losing it during his earlier battle against Godzilla, Kong reclaims it and lands several blows on Mechagodzilla, but his weapon, having lost its charge, is ineffective against the robot, who attempts to fatally impale Kong with its tail drill. All seems lost for Kong and Godzilla while Bernie, realizing there is nothing he and the others can do, pulls out a flask of liquor, suggesting that they all have a drink. However, Josh, suddenly having an idea, snatches the flask out of Bernie's hand and short-circuits Mechagodzilla's controls by pouring the contents of the drink all over the control panel, making Mechagodzilla momentarily stall and giving Godzilla and Kong the opportunity to recover and regain the upper hand.

While Nathan and Ilene sit together amid the rubble, Jia reunites with Mark, who she meets for the first time and introduces him to Josh and Bernie. Mark is happy to see Josh and Bernie, and Bernie invites him onto his podcast to speak about the Monarch facility in Roswell. Godzilla approaches Kong, leading the Titan to take his axe and ready to continue the battle, interrupting their peaceful moment. Godzilla, on the other hand, does not attack and instead just stares Kong down. Kong, seeing that their actual adversary has been slain, lowers his axe, thereby putting an end to the conflict between his people and Godzilla's people. Now that they are no longer competitors, Godzilla and Kong see each other as equals before Godzilla returns to the sea quietly, with Kong and the whole human population looking on in wonder.

Godzilla Films

Action and stunning visuals make this long-awaited blockbuster showdown easy to forget about the mediocre plot and characters, according to the site's audience review summary. Even yet, the film's monster brawls were praised by many, while others were dissatisfied by the film's "half-baked" human aspects. By Sunday morning of the five-day weekend release period, an estimated $48.5 million dollars in US box office revenue credited the film to halting the COVID-19 pandemic-fueled box office decline. For the first time since HBO Max's launch, WarnerMedia said that the film had the most viewership of any HBO series or movie since its inception. The film succeeded well in other countries as well, earning nearly $236 million from ticket sales outside the United States.

On April 17, 2021, it was reported that despite still somewhat depressed box office due to the pandemic, Godzilla vs. Kong had surpassed the total box office of the film Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Terry Rossio directs his first Godzilla picture after his unproduced script for the 1994 blockbuster.

Previously, Kyle Chandler appeared in Peter Jackson's 2005 version of King Kong, which also included King Kong.

The sequence in which Kong slams his dislocated right shoulder against a structure in order to reposition it might be a reference to Martin Riggs' iconic ability of the same sort in the Lethal Weapon series.

The film has several references to Neon Genesis Evangelion: