Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization Author(s) Greg Keyes Publisher Blackstone Publishing (audiobook) Titan Books (ebook, print) Publish date March 29, 2024 (audiobook) April 16, 2024 (ebook) April 23, 2024 (print) Pages 320 ISBN ISBN-10: 1803368101 ISBN-13: 978-1803368108

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization is the novelization of the 2024 Legendary Pictures film Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, written by Greg Keyes. It was released first in audiobook form by Blackstone Publishing, narrated by Tim Campbell, on March 29, 2024. Titan Books published it as an ebook on April 16, and as a paperback on April 23.

Description

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The official novelization of the blockbuster Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the latest film in the Monsterverse franchise, starring Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall and Brian Tyree Henry. A follow-up to the explosive showdown of Godzilla vs. Kong. This time the almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla face a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own. The latest epic will delve further into the histories of these Titans, their origins and the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever. Writer Greg Keyes returns to the Monsterverse to transport readers ever deeper into the world of Monsters. This book explores the events of the film while adding to the history and lore of the Titans, portraying existing scenes from a fresh perspective and expanding upon the film. A must-read for any Godzilla and Kong fan.

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Differences from the film

• In a prologue set in 2016, Drs. Ishiro Serizawa, Vivienne Graham, Ilene Andrews, and Emma Russell visit Dr. Magezi Maartens in Greenland over her discovery that the worldwide layer of ice correlating to the beginning of the Last Ice Age froze unnaturally quickly, left signatures of radiation, and was identical to the ice imprisoning King Ghidorah.
• The second chapter begins with a scene from Godzilla's perspective as he realizes Scylla is awake and prepares to fight her, deciding that she is incapable of learning her place even after their previous confrontation.
• Andrews's TV interview, shown during the film's opening credits, is expanded on. After a commercial break, she and the interviewer are joined by a U.S. senator who opposes the Hollow Earth Conservation Bill.
• Godzilla and Scylla's activities in Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted are expanded on and told from Monarch Director Hampton's perspective. After Scylla awakens, she moves through the Atlantic towards the Brazilian-owned island Ilha de Trindade. Monarch attempts to set a trap on the island using a large containment net, a M.U.L.E., and two Osprey Mark IIIs, but Scylla avoids it by utilizing a Hollow Earth vortex previously assumed to be a cave caused by volcanic activity. She travels to Bengal, India, to feed on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant. She withdraws into the ocean and makes landfall in Pakistan, then moves northwest towards England, destroying a nuclear enrichment facility in Iran and plowing through Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Poland, and Berlin along the way. After Godzilla kills Scylla in Rome, Italy, Hampton and Andrews question why he did so after sparing her in Godzilla Dominion.
• Scylla's history and abilities are expanded upon. Monarch never set up a containment field around her initial resting place in Arizona due to her appearing dormant, with some scientists even believing she was dead. After the events of Godzilla Dominion, Scylla claimed a frozen pool on a South American island near Antarctica and began cooling the world's oceans. After awakening, Scylla begins warming the oceans instead. Her attack on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant warms the area by four degrees as well as weakening the ozone layer overhead.
• In the first of many sections of the novelization told from Kong's perspective, he is unable to recall any memories of his parents when they were alive.
• The Iwi's psychic abilities are more heavily foreshadowed. Jia believes that she once shared dreams with Kong, feels a pain in her jaw mirroring Kong's broken tooth, and remembers having "...whispery thoughts and words in her head that didn't come from her."
• One of the visions Jia receives is a dream, possibly a memory, of her watching moths with her aunt Oa and telling her about their song, although Oa cannot hear it. Jia's ability to feel the vibrations produced by songs later allows her to locate Mothra's camouflaged chrysalis atop the Iwi pyramid.
• Jayne, a Monarch scientist working in Outpost One, has a heightened sense of smell, and she muses how different the scents in Hollow Earth are from the surface as she gathers plants for dinner. She is startled by a dirraff, a creature with a body like an armadillo, a neck like a snake, and a head like an otter. She recalls the recent discovery of the remains of Raymond Martin's Titan Hunter mech, which Kong destroyed in Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted.
• Hampton relays to Andrews that Outpost One has "discovered a new type of beetle that eats electrical cables."
• Jia is bullied at her school in Barbados, particularly by a girl named Samah, who pretended to be her friend in order to better mock her behind her back.
• Andrews decided to become the director of the Kong Observation Project, which would take her and Jia out of Hollow Earth, after they were attacked by a Wart Dog pack that would have killed them had Kong not intervened.
• Project Powerhouse is publicly mentioned multiple times before Kong receives the B.E.A.S.T. Glove. However, Bernie is unaware of the project's existence as in the film.
• The destruction of Outpost One plays out from the staff's point of view but cuts off the moment one of the Great Apes, presumably the Skar King, rips off the roof.
• On the night of Outpost One's destruction, Jia has a vision of the Skar King.
• There is a minor subplot regarding a Hollow Earth Conservation Bill.
• Godzilla's fight with the French military is cut off by him utilizing his nuclear pulse.
• Monarch had hypothesized the existence of Shimo, labeled "Monster H," due to rock art and myths from an island in the Pacific as well as the unique radiation signatures in the Ice Age ice.
• The Iwi's civilization is named Malenka.
• Shimo's title is stated within the Iwi history Ilene translates, but she isn't able to directly translate it. Ilene gives three examples of what it could be translated as, the "First Titan", the "Ultimate Titan", or the "Quintessential Titan". The same word is used to describe Mothra.
• It also reveals that Godzilla waged war with the Skar King alongside other Titans that were loyal to him. The war is suggested to be the basis of the Titanomachy in Greek myths and Satan's rebellion against heaven in Christian theology.
• Ilene and Trapper have an extensive conversation over the Iwi's prophecy, as well as Shimo and Mothra's existence.
• Kong and Suko pass by a pack of Wart Dogs while fleeing from the Great Apes; Kong scares them from giving chase to Suko.
• The Skar King takes almost every male ape under his command with him to invade the surface.
• Hampton worries about the world's governments attempting a takeover of the Hollow Earth, which is only made worse with the presence of Shimo in Rio de Janeiro.
• Bernie, Ilene, and Jia choose to stay in Malenka a little longer while Trapper returns to the surface world, with hints that he and Ilene might rekindle their relationship.

Appearances

Titans and superspecies Godzilla King Kong Mothra Suko Skar King Shimo Great Ape Gnarled Finger One-Eye Stone Fist Catcher Knob Boots Scylla Tiamat Doug Leafwing King Ghidorah (frozen) Mechagodzilla (mentioned) MUTO (mentioned) Behemoth (mentioned) Amhuluk (mentioned) Titan Hunter (mentioned) Skullcrawler (mentioned) Other monsters Wart Dog Parrot Frog Verticine Warbat Hellhawk Hollow Earth mosquito Tree mimic Hollow Earth dragonfly Drownviper Dirraff Paul Bunyan (mentioned) Babe the Blue Ox (mentioned) Cable-eating beetles (mentioned) Giant river leech (mentioned) Bioluminescent flying creatures

Weapons, vehicles, races, and organizations Iwi Monarch Kong's battle axe Whipslash B.E.A.S.T. Glove M.U.L.E HEAV Osprey Mark III Containment net Indian fighter jets French drones Apex Cybernetics (mentioned)

Gallery

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  Audiobook art

Trivia

• In contrast to previous Monsterverse media, monster species names (e.g. Skullcrawler, Leafwing) are usually not capitalized in this novelization.

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Bibliography

• Keyes, Greg (23 April 2024). Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization. Titan Books. ISBN 978-1803368108.

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