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Warning: Spoilers forGodzilla: King of the Monstersfollow.
That means Godzilla and Kong are just the tip of Legendarys nuclear-allegory iceberg.
There are, I feel confident in saying, far more monsterswithin the Godzilla universethan you ever dreamed possible.
Which would Dougherty choose?
Those are very much the crown jewels of Toho, Dougherty says.
Mechagodzilla is a personal favorite because its just bonkers, he says.
Its such a bizarre concept to create a giant, cyborg, robotic Godzilla.
Sure, why not?
It was the 70s.
Once Dougherty had his monsters, it was time to render them into nine-figure-budget versions of themselves.
But Dougherty wanted to make his creatures distinctive in some way.
After all, the cats out of the bag; weve seen Godzilla and Kong.
We get it, theyre big boys.
Instead, the director decided to focus on something just as jolting: sound.
The roars of the creatures are so iconic, he says.
They make very particular sounds, and they always have.
Dougherty tried to channel the monsters personalities, too.
Mothra is sort of the yin to Godzillas yang, Dougherty says.
(Whether Mothra is truly dead depends on how you interpret the movies final scene.)
And then Rodan is a bit of a rogue.
But hes kind of crazy: He just enjoys a good barroom brawl.
