Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent, Alex Garcia and Brian Rogers Max Borenstein, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent and Alex Garcia

Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Mary Parent and Brian Rogersĭan Gilroy and Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly In March 2017, Legendary assembled a writers room led by Terry Rossio to develop the story for Godzilla vs. In early January 2017, Thomas Tull, founder of Legendary, resigned from the company but would remain as producer for the Godzilla–Kong series, which was revealed as the MonsterVerse. That same month, it was revealed that Legendary was planning a writers room to create their Godzilla–Kong cinematic universe, with Alex Garcia overseeing the project for Legendary. In October 2016, Legendary announced that Godzilla: King of the Monsters would be filmed at its parent company Wanda's Oriental Movie Metropolis facility in Qingdao, China, along with Pacific Rim: Uprising. Kong would be released on May 29, 2020, later pushed back to May 21, 2021, and that Godzilla: King of the Monsters would be pushed back from its original Jrelease date to March 22, 2019, however, the film was later pushed back again to May 31, 2019. Later in October, it was announced that Kong: Skull Island would have references to Monarch. Legendary plans to create a shared cinematic franchise 'centered around Monarch' (the secret government agency which debuted in 2014's Godzilla) and that 'brings together Godzilla and Legendary’s King Kong in an ecosystem of other giant super-species, both classic and new'. In October 2015, Legendary announced plans to unite Godzilla and Kong in a film titled Godzilla vs. Instead, it would be developed with Warner Bros., which sparked media speculation that Godzilla and Kong would appear in a film together. In September 2015, Legendary announced that the film Kong: Skull Island would not be developed with Universal Studios. Legendary confirmed at the July 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International that it had acquired the licensing rights to Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah from Toho and revealed concept footage with the closing title cards reading 'Conflict: inevitable. Tull's vision was for the films to one day lead to Godzilla vs. Tull had offered Borenstein the opportunity to write the first draft for Kong: Skull Island, with the goal to establish Kong in the same universe as Legendary's Godzilla film. Borenstein credits Legendary Entertainment's founder and then CEO Thomas Tull as the one responsible for the MonsterVerse, having acquired the rights to Godzilla and negotiate the complicated rights to King Kong.

Writer Max Borenstein stated that the MonsterVerse did not begin as a franchise but as an American reboot of Godzilla.

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