Godzilla x Kong May Be Facing Their Wildest Enemy Yet: SpaceGodzilla

Well, this is fun: Godzilla x Kong: Supernova looks like it might be bringing in a very specific, very spiky blast from the past. If the latest guild paperwork is anything to go by, the next MonsterVerse chapter is gearing up to unleash SpaceGodzilla. Yes, really.

The tip-off

A listing in the Writers Guild of America West directory for a project using the working title 'Zeus' quietly spells it out. It cites character ownership in a way that leaves little wiggle room:

"Based on the characters 'Godzilla' and 'Space Godzilla' owned and created by ToHo Co., LTD."

Studios love their code names, but they are not usually this coy when it comes to rights language. Translation: SpaceGodzilla is almost certainly in play, even if nobody at the studio has officially said it out loud yet.

Wait, SpaceGodzilla?

If you have not brushed up on your Heisei-era deep cuts, SpaceGodzilla is a mutated Godzilla clone who first showed up in 1994's Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla. Since then the character has lived on in video games, comics, and TV, but has not returned to the big screen in over 30 years and has never appeared in a Hollywood movie. That streak appears to be ending here.

What makes this guy different

Design-wise, SpaceGodzilla is basically Godzilla after an extreme gym phase: bigger, more muscular, with a longer tail, plus face tusks and hefty crystal growths. Those crystals are not just for the lookbook, either. In lore, the crystals draw energy from the environment to juice up SpaceGodzilla's powers.

As for origins, the '90s movie went full sci-fi pulp: G-cells drift into space, tumble through a black hole, and pop back out of a white hole as an upgraded cosmic menace. Is that how physics works? No. Is it the kind of gloriously bonkers explanation that fits a kaiju named SpaceGodzilla? Absolutely.

Supernova basics

• Director: Grant Sputore
• Writers: Michael Lloyd Green and David Callaham (Callaham also worked on Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)
• Cast: Dan Stevens returns as Trapper Beasley; newcomers include Kaitlyn Dever, Delroy Lindo, Sam Neill, Jack O'Connell, Matthew Modine, and Alycia Debnam-Carey
• Release date: March 26, 2027 (in theaters)
• Villain watch: Strong signs point to SpaceGodzilla making his Hollywood debut, marking the character's first big-screen appearance in more than three decades

The read

Nothing is official until it is on a poster, but a WGAW entry is not the kind of thing that gets tossed in lightly. If Supernova really is pitting Godzilla and Kong against a crystal-armored cosmic clone, that is a swing worthy of the title. Buckle up for some very large, very shiny destruction.