Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - The Official Movie Novelization
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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.[1] Titan Books published it as an ebook on April 16, and as a paperback on April 23.[2]
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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. |
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- The novelization opens up in 2016 with a prologue involving Ishiro Serizawa, Vivienne Graham, Ilene Andrews, and Emma Russell visiting Dr. Magezi Maartens in Greenland over her discovery that the world-wide 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 Godzilla's perspective as he realizes Scylla is awake and prepares to fight her when he decides she would never learn her place even after their previous confrontation.
- 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.
- Godzilla's story from Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted is given more detail 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, but Scylla avoids it by utilizing a Hollow Earth vortex previously assumed to be a cave caused by volcanic activity to travel to Bengal, India to feed on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant. Scylla then retreated into the ocean and made landfall in Pakistan, and moved north-west towards England, destroyed a nuclear enrichment facility in Iran and plowing through Berlin along the way. After Scylla is killed by Godzilla in Rome, Italy, Hampton and Andrews speculate what had caused Godzilla to do so after sparing her in Godzilla Dominion.
- Scylla's history and abilities are expanded upon: Scylla never had a containment field at her initial resting place in Arizona due to her appearing dormant, with some scientists presuming her dead. After the events of Godzilla Dominion, Scylla had claimed a frozen pool on a South American island and began cooling the world's oceans. After awakening, Scylla begins warming the oceans instead, and caused Bengal to warm by four degrees and weakened the Ozone layer in the area.
- Jia is able to feel songs despite not being able to hear them. She can feel similar "songs" emanating from moths in and Mothra, and uses this ability to locate the latter's camouflaged chrysalis on the alter.
- Kong had been dealing with the Wart Dog pack for some time before their attack at the beginning of the film. In one incident the pack had attacked Illene, Jia, and a Monarch escort whilst they were following Kong, and killed two people before Kong noticed.
- Hints to the Iwi’s psychic nature are added before the reveal. Jia believed that she shared dreams with Kong before she went to Monarch's school, felt a pain in her jaw from Kong’s broken tooth, and remembered 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 the songs they produced although Oa cannot feel them.
- The novelization includes several additional creatures such as a Dirraff, a hybrid of a giraffe and an armadillo with an otter-like head, electricity-eating beetles, and giant river leeches.
- Chapter three includes a section from the point of view of a scientist in the Hollow Earth Kong Observation Center named Jayne. Janye has a heightened sense of smell, and much of her section goes over how different the smells from the Hollow Earth are from the surface as she gathered plants for dinner until she was startled by a Dirraff and returned indoors as the scene transitions into the one from the film.
- Illene Andrews recounts discovering the remains of Raymond Martin's Titan Hunter mech and resolved to tighten security around the Hollow Earth's entrances and within Monarch itself.
- Jia was bullied at her school in Barbados.
- 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 and the unique ice signatures found in the worldwide layer correlating to the Last Ice Age and the localized ice trapping King Ghidorah.
- The Iwi's civilization is named Malenka.
- Shimo's title is stated within the Iwi history Illene translates, but she isn't able to directly translate it. Illene 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 described as the basis of the Greek myths of the Titanomachy and Satan's rebellion against heaven in Christian theology.
- Illene 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.
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