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Godzilla and King Kong will return for another epic battle on the big screen, Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced.

After the two Titans clashed in 2021's Godzilla vs. Kong, the studio says that the two giant monsters will fight "a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own."

The movie will also explore how the mysterious Titans came to be by diving into their ancient histories and uncovering the legendary battle that created them and forever linked them to humans.

Adam Wingard will return to direct the MonsterVerse film, as well as cast members Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, and Kaylee Hottle. They will be joined by newcomers Dan Stevens, Fala Chen, Alex Ferns, and Rachel House. Screenwriters Terry Rossio, Jeremy Slater and Simon Barrett are also part of the project. It is being shot on location in Queensland, Australia.

It will be a while before the extraordinary behemoths grace our screens again, however. The untitled film is set for a March 15, 2024, release. While you wait, here's how you can watch all the Godzilla moves in order.

MonsterVerse: Every Major Monster

The MonsterVerse is Legendary's shared universe which positions the secret government agency Monarch at the center of an eco-system of monsters, or "Titans" as they call them, both new and classic. The latest chapter in this saga, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, sees our favorite Titans working together to stop a new, terrifying threat from Hollow Earth. <br><br> Click through the slideshow, or read on, for all the monsters we know of so far in the MonsterVerse movies and TV shows, from Godzilla to Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and all the way through Godzilla vs. Kong, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Skull Island, and the trailers of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire! <br><br> And don't worry, we'll be updating this soon with the new monsters from the latest film now that it's out! Godzilla<br><br>Rogue One's Gareth Edwards directed the somber and grim opening chapter to the MonsterVerse, 2014's Godzilla, which of course reintroduced the titular monster to the world. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Bryan Cranston, Godzilla features the titan emerging from a long slumber to stop two rampaging parasitic monsters from mating. In 2019's Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla battled a prehistoric alien Titan, "Monster Zero," known as King Ghidorah. In 2021, he fought against both Kong and Mechagodzilla, but only the two titular titans walked out victorious after they chose to work together in epic fashion. While Godzilla may have won the big battle between the two, the film ends with them respecting each other and leaving it at that. <br><br> Now a new empire rises from the Hollow Earth that threatens everything...View 31 ImagesKing Kong<br><br>Kong: Skull Island, from The Kings of Summer's Jordan Vogt-Roberts, features a more adventurous tone than Godzilla ground zero, and starred Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, John Goodman, and Brie Larson as members of an expedition filled with soldiers and scientists who travel to a mysterious island in the Pacific... where they of course find King Kong himself. This stands as the MonsterVerse's Kong reboot/restart, 12 years after Peter Jackson remade King Kong (a film that also featured Skull Island). In 2021, Kong was being held captive by Monarch following the natural super-storm decimation of Skull Island and being forced to lead an expedition to Hollow Earth. In Godzilla vs. Kong, the pair initially fought each other but joined forces to take down Mechagodzilla with an atomic beathified Axe. While Kong may have lost the big battle against Godzilla, they ended the film with great respect for each other. <br><br> In Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, these two titans must once again work together to stop a new threat that originates in the Hollow Earth...M.U.T.O.s<br><br>Okay, so Godzilla's M.U.T.O.s (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms) probably won't marquee their own movie, but these prehistoric parasites wreak havoc on human civilization as they're drawn to man-made radiation. They seem to love trampling anyone and everything in their path. Two unnamed M.U.T.O.s (a male and a female pair) appear in 2014's Godzilla, while a second female debuted in the third film, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, heeding the clarion call of King Ghidorah. King of the Monsters also phased out the M.U.T.O. name, instead referring to any of the massive beasts in the MonsterVerse as Titans.Skullcrawlers<br><br>Scavenging Skull Island are pesky pack-hunting predators called Skullcrawlers (a term coined by John C. Reilly's stranded islander Marlow) who generally make life miserable for both man and beast as an intelligent, burrowing, bullet-proof species of crawling carnivore lizard creatures. They come in both frightful airplane-size and also towering Alpha-size - like Skull Devil, who killed Kong's parents. These critters also play a role in Godzilla vs. Kong and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.Mother Longlegs<p> One of the more memorable scenes from Kong: Skull Island involved the perpetually in-peril platoon getting skewered by the sinister stems of a mammoth Mother Longlegs - a gargantuan spider with lethal limbs that our heroes didn't know they'd walked under. <br><br> We catch a glimpse of the Mother Longlegs in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters chasing Bill Randa during the 1973 Monarch expedition to Skull Island. Sadly for that monster, that chase leads to a battle with the Mantleclaw and, although Mother Longlegs emerges victorious, it appears to be brought into the water to its death with it.

The latest installment in the franchise will follow Godzilla and Kong's spectacular showdown and subsequent team-up to destroy Mechagodzilla. IGN rated the previous movie a 7/10, saying "it is a glorious love letter to these iconic characters’ collective histories and a satisfying culmination of the arc leading up to it."

The movie announcement comes just days after Deadline reported that a new King Kong series is in development for Disney+. The show will focus on the colossal monkey's origins and will be based on filmmaker Merian Cooper's original books.

Michelle Jalbert is a social coordinator and contributing freelancer for IGN.

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