How to Watch ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ on HBO Max

Sometimes there’s no better way to escape life’s challenges than by turning off your brain and watching two giant monsters battle it out.It’s all right there in the title: In Godzilla vs. Kong, the two titans will finally face off on the big screen (or whatever sized screen you have at home), with the promise that one will fall. So, who are you rooting for?

The movie’s human cast includes Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler and Demián Bichir.

Godzilla vs. Kong is directed by Adam Wingard from a script by Eric Pearson (Thor: Ragnarok) and Max Borenstein (who previously wrote both Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island).

Godzilla vs. Kong come out on Wednesday, March 31, opening in theaters and streaming on HBO Max on the same day. (The movie will only be available on HBO Max for 31 days.)

You can watch HBO Max on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Android, Apple TV, Google Chromecast, PS4, PS5, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, XBox One or XBox XS, as well as iPads, iPhones and Androids.

Godzilla vs. Kong basics

As you probably know, Godzilla and King Kong both have long movie and pop-culture histories.

King Kong burst on the scene in the 1933 movie King Kong. In that film, the giant gorilla-like creature is found on Skull Island, its home, by an American filmmaker, and dragged back to the US to be exhibited. Kong falls in love with a human woman, Ann, played by Fay Wray, and inevitably breaks loose and grabs her, climbing to the top of the Empire State Building before being shot down by airplanes. But you can’t keep a great ape down — Kong returned in numerous sequels and remakes over the years, first taking on Godzilla in 1962.

Godzilla first appeared in the 1954 Japanese movie Godzilla, as an enormous sea monster powered by radiation — thought of as a metaphor for nuclear weapons after the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The dinosaur-like monster has radiation-given powers, including atomic breath, and retreats back into the ocean after its battles. It often tramples Tokyo and kills people, but it’s been known to fight alongside humanity. Kong aside, its usual opponents are fellow kaiju — a Japanese word for giant monsters — such as Rodan, Mothra and others. Godzilla is such a pop-culture icon that it even starred in a 1978 American cartoon, Godzilla, where it had a comedic sidekick nephew, little Godzooky.

The 2021 film

Godzilla vs. Kong is the fourth film in what’s called the “MonsterVerse,” a series of films about the two giant monsters from Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. It all started with 2014’s Godzilla, which was followed by 2017’s Kong: Skull Island, and then 2019’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Godzilla vs. Kong finally brings the two biggies together to fight it out.

“In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages,” an official synopsis says.

Source:Etonline