Adam Wingard, horror specialist, to direct Godzilla vs Kong

Adam Wingard, director of You’re Next, The Guest, and the upcoming Death Note, has been chosen to helm Godzilla vs Kong.

Adam Wingard, previously known for low-budget horror movies like You’re Next and The Guest, has closed a deal to helm Godzilla vs. Kong, Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. teaming of two of the big screen’s most popular movie monsters, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Godzilla vs Kong is scheduled for a 2020 release.

Adam Wingard confirmed the announcement by stating he’s already prepared himself for those who will negatively judge his work on Godzilla vs Kong before even seeing it.

He wrote, “Cue the tweets telling me I’ve already ruined Godzilla and Kong.”

Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts also congratulated Adam Wingard on this achievement.

Earlier in March, ‘Legendary’ set a writers room to work on the script for the project, with Terry Rossio, the veteran best known for co-writing the Pirates of the Caribbean movies as its head.

Other writers scribbling included the team of Patrick McKay and JD Payne (Star Trek Beyond), Lindsey Beer, Cat Vasko, Maze Runner movies writer TS Nowlin, Jack Paglen (Transcendence) and Babylon 5 creator J Michael Straczynski.

Plot details of the movie are being kept hidden. The movie is scheduled to be released on May 22, 2020.

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