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Terry Rossio, known for his work on the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, will head the crack creature crew.
With Kong: Skull Island generating strong reviews before its March 10 release, Legendary already has its sights on the big prize, the eventual Godzilla vs. Kong movie.
That project is acting as the culmination (at least at this point) of the company's series of movies featuring silver screen super species.
The studio is putting together a writers room to break the story, with Terry Rossio, veteran scribe best known for co-writing the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, tapped to head the creature feature league. Once he and his cohorts work out the best ideas and beats for the story, a writer will be chosen to write the script.
Joining Rossio in the room will be:
Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, who co-wrote Star Trek Beyond and who are working on Star Trek 4;
Lindsey Beer, who is currently adapting The Kingkiller Chronicles for Lionsgate;
Cat Vasko, currently penning Warner Bros.’s adaptation of period circus love story, Queen of the Air;
T.S. Nowlin, the writer of the Maze Runner movies who already worked for Legendary on its Pacific Rim sequel;
And J. Michael Straczynski, the comic book writer and creator of 1990s sci-fi show Babylon 5 whose recent credits include World War Z and co-creating Netflix show Sense8 with the Wachowskis.
With Kong: Skull Island generating strong reviews before its March 10 release, Legendary already has its sights on the big prize, the eventual Godzilla vs. Kong movie.
That project is acting as the culmination (at least at this point) of the company's series of movies featuring silver screen super species.
The studio is putting together a writers room to break the story, with Terry Rossio, veteran scribe best known for co-writing the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, tapped to head the creature feature league. Once he and his cohorts work out the best ideas and beats for the story, a writer will be chosen to write the script.
Joining Rossio in the room will be:
Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne, who co-wrote Star Trek Beyond and who are working on Star Trek 4;
Lindsey Beer, who is currently adapting The Kingkiller Chronicles for Lionsgate;
Cat Vasko, currently penning Warner Bros.’s adaptation of period circus love story, Queen of the Air;
T.S. Nowlin, the writer of the Maze Runner movies who already worked for Legendary on its Pacific Rim sequel;
And J. Michael Straczynski, the comic book writer and creator of 1990s sci-fi show Babylon 5 whose recent credits include World War Z and co-creating Netflix show Sense8 with the Wachowskis.
Just re-read the article. Guess we don't need to buy our tickets for this one quite yet.
Godzilla, released in 2014, was the first entry and Skull Island, during its development, was retrofitted to fold into an overall story. Legendary is now in the casting stages of a sequel to Godzilla, titled Godzilla: King of the Monsters, with Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga and Millie Bobby Brown so far on the roll call. That movie has a March 22, 2019 release date. Godzilla vs Kong is eyeing a release of May 29, 2020.
ETA: JMS posted it to his Twitter feed:
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