Millie Bobby Brown expresses this in an interview with Total Film Magazine, as she is honored her big screen debut is part of the Godzilla legacy.
O'Shea Jackson Jr. made it very clear that he is a huge Godzilla fan in every interview he has had for the film, even expressing that Gigan is his favorite villain. He felt extremely excited to join the project and even acknowledged the coincidence of his friends and Straight Outta Compton co-stars Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell having worked previously in Kong: Skull Island.
B-Team Sequel: Gareth Edwards was originally set to return to the director's chair after taking a break from blockbusters, but he decided to take on Rogue One in that time instead, meaning that his break was delayed to the point where it encompasses the time he could have directed this.
Colbert Bump: The trailer's usage of "Clair de Lune" astonishingly has fans looking up for the music. It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that no classical music fans actually minds this.
Creator Backlash: Played down slightly, since Charles Dance didn't seem to hate the movie or regret working on it. However, he ultimately proved somewhat unenthusiastic about it, rather bluntly stating that he nearly fell asleep at the film's premiere. That being said, he brought the same level of dedication to the film as he does all his projects and has also stated he is open to reprising his role in the future.
While Director Michael Dougherty has stated that he has a major soft spot for Rodan and prays he did "justice" for the character, he also expresses Godzilla as his favorite.
A cut scene from the movie showed Admiral Stenz delivering an It Has Been an Honor speech to the Argo's crew before seemingly being killed when his ship is destroyed by Ghidorah's Gravity Beams.
A deleted end credits scene showed Drs. Ilene and Ling Chen travelling to the Temple of the Moth, where Ilene's twin daughters are singing to a Mothra egg.
Hey, It's That Sound!: Some of King Ghidorah's roars are identical to the Vastatosaurus rex in Peter Jackson's King Kong. Listen to the roars in the first twenty seconds of this video that montages the roaring sound effects from the V. rex, and you can hear the recycled roar.
Milestone Celebration: The film was released during the franchise's 65th anniversary. More specifically, it premiered on May 31, 2019 - the 115th Birthday of legendary Godzilla composer Akira Ifukube.
Missing Trailer Scene: The scene from the trailer where Madison tries to contact Monarch is absent from the movie. However, it's present in the novelization and occurs just before she steals the ORCA.
Posthumous Credit: Despite succumbing to a subarachnoid hemorrhage in May 2017, Yoshimitsu Banno is given an executive producer credit for this film.
Production Nickname: All three of King Ghidorah's heads had their own names by the production staff based on the first three numbers in Japanese: Ichi (middle head), Ni (right head), and San (left head). The left head however has the distinct honor for having another name, being "Kevin".
Promoted Fanboy: Mike Dougherty explains in Tokyo Comic Con that he's a huge Godzilla fan, and that directing this film is a dream come true. To the point that he mentioned photoshopping the original Godzilla (1954) spines onto the Legendary Godzilla's back. The Kaiju fights, cinematography and even the modernized Akira Ifukube soundtracks were clearly made for Godzilla fans as he himself is one of them.
Refitted for Sequel: According to Godzilla (2014) art book, The Art of Destruction, the Godzilla corpse found in the beginning of that movie would have been discovered frozen somewhere in Siberia instead of the Philippines. It was changed because Man of Steel, a film from the year prior, had a very similar scene of Clark finding the Kryptonian ship frozen in ice. This film appears to rework it, this time King Ghidorah is found frozen in Antarctica.
Release Date Change: The film's release date was initially sometime in June 2018, but was pushed back to March 22nd, 2019. It was subsequently pushed back again to May 30, 2019 to avoid competition with Disney's Captain Marvel.
Separated-at-Birth Casting: Millie Bobby Brown as the Russell daughter Madison looks like an honest blend of Kyle Chandler's square-shaped facial structure with Vera Farmiga's more heart-shaped facial structure, and her high cheekbones and wavy hair match Farmiga's whilst her brunette hair color lines up with Chandler's.
The Jakks Pacific Ghidorah action figure quite noticeably has a detachable left head, with a joint located higher up on the neck than the middle or right heads. Predictably, Ghidorah ends up losing his left head in the battle against Godzilla in Mexico, though he later grows it back.
Take That!: After Emma's "Long live the king" line, it immediately cuts to Godzilla demolishing a building that has a large poster of a lion hanging on it. Guess which film WB's rival Disney was releasing the month after King of the Monsters came out?
Throw It In!: Serizawa's final words in his Heroic Sacrifice were scripted in English, but Ken Watanabe instead opted to speak the Japanese version of the line, and the filmmakers thought it was much more appropriate when they saw it.
Trailers Always Spoil: The first official trailer completely spoils that Dr. Emma Russell wants to set the titans free, which is a plot twist in the actual film.
Trailers Always Lie: In the final trailer for the film there is a line spoken by Emma Russel claiming that that humanity and the planet will perish “unless we set Godzilla free…” implying some sort of plot-line where Godzilla gets trapped or captured and humanity has to rescue him, in the film itself this line of dialogue is never spoken, Godzilla is actually the only Titan already active and does not get unleashed from hibernation or at any point in the story does he become trapped or contained.
Word of God: Michael Dougherty revealed in an interview that they originally intended for Dr. Ilene Chen and her twin sister Dr. Ling to be explicitly identified as the MonsterVerse's version of the Shobijin, being a pair of humans rather than mystical fairy-women. The revelation would have taken place in a credits scene that unfortunately they ran out of time to film, in which the adult twins would enter an ancient temple where Ilene's two adolescent daughters would be singing to the new Mothra egg that was mentioned in the credits. In the film proper, the closest thing to it is Dr. Chen having a throwaway line about how the women of her bloodline often give birth to twin daughters as well as showing a picture of the previous generations of her family showing how every generation of females were born as twins.
Dougherty also confirmed in a tweet that the spots on Mothra's wings are meant to look like Godzilla's eyes in order to highlight their symbiotic relationship by saying that Mothra is Godzilla's "flagbearer" as well as the "Queen of the Monsters".
In another tweet, Michael Dougherty explained why Ghidorah was frozen in ice: Godzilla and Ghidorah's last showdown in the past ended with Godzilla beating Ghidorah, leading to the three-headed dragon ending up encased in a tomb of ice in the Antarctic.
Working Title: Unsurprisingly, Godzilla 2. During production, the film was also called Fathom.
Assorted Trivia
The film, along with Pacific Rim: Uprising, was filmed at the Oriental Movie Metropolis facility in China, which is owned by Legendary Pictures' parent company Wanda Group.
by Cyndi.
