Doing something a little different this week. The story from the previous two weeks is on hold for a tiny bit. I’m going to do a movie pitch, which is maybe more in line with how I originally intended this blog to go. Still, it’s creative, it’s writing, I am meeting my deadline of writing something new every week. Living The Motern Method.
Godzilla vs. Kong is fine. It’s a perfectly adequate kaiju team-up picture. People don’t like to hear this, because everyone is so hyper critical of everything now, but the giant monster genre has a form and it was fairly true to that form, but it’s not perfect. There are ideas that feel rushed, almost to the point of being superfluous to the story.
So in this exercise the studio has come to me with the following ask: “We’ve already started work. We’ve built sets. We’ve hired actors. The story needs to follow the same basic beats, but it feels a little off. Can you fix it?”
Sure… why not?
This assumes you have seen the movie, so needless to say: spoilers ahead.
Armchair Screenwriter 