‘Godzilla x Kong’ Moves Up Release in Theaters to Late March, ‘Mickey 17’ Delayed

will stomp into theaters two weeks earlier than expected, Legendary and Warner Bros. announced Tuesday. The fifth installment in their MonsterVerse series will now open March 29 instead of April 12. is taking the date previously occupied by Academy Award winning director ‘s , whose release is being delayed due to post strike production shifts.

A new date is expected to be announced soon for the feature. (The shift was not exactly a surprise, as there has not been a trailer for the film yet.) The latest feature film entry in Warner Bros./ ‘s follows the events of (2021), where fans got to see the two apex kaijus finally fight for supremacy.

delving deeper into the mysteries of the Hollow Earth and the reveal of a Titan menace that will necessitate the alliance of Godzilla and Kong. filmmaker Adam Wingard is back in the director’s chair, and reunites returning castmembers Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry and Kaylee Hottle. Dan Stevens joins the franchise as a lead in The franchise also includes (2014), (2017) and (2019).

There have also been two television entries in the franchise, the anime series (2023) released on Netflix, and the live action series (2023) released on Apple TV+. Based on Edward Ashton’s novel of the same name, stars , Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo. Bong penned the adapted script based on the book by Edward Ashton.

The book, published in early 2022, centers on a man known as an expendable on a mission to colonize a distant planet. Each colony features one crew member who takes on the most dangerous jobs on the mission — jobs that will assuredly lead to their deaths. However, their memories are backed up and they are restored to cloned bodies when they die.

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