Zack Snyder fans have successfully orchestrated a campaign to bring Warner Bros. ‘attention and convince the studio to release Zack Snyder’s director’s cut version of it Justice League– which in the extremely expensive and marginally improved Zack Snyder’s Justice League– prove once and for all that if a fanbase is loud enough and pushy enough, they can make any ridiculous dream come true (provided their dream coincides with a movie studio that feels an overwhelming sense of despair over the amount of content available on the new streaming platform). The point is, they did it. It worked. They tweeted enough hashtags and got enough responses from people and made so much noise that Warner Bros. decided it really made sense to throw millions and millions of dollars to silence them (but in a fun way). Now… it happens again.
Today, as Christians on Twitter celebrated Easter by getting ‘Jesus’ to second place in the United States (we’re just snarling, ‘Happy Easter’ is currently number one), Godzilla fans also got to see ‘#ContinueTheMonsterverse’ in the top 10. The need for the hashtag is based on that idea Which Godzilla Vs. Kong seems to be the end of the series that Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. have worked since Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla in 2014, as the studios have not announced any kaiju movies in the works after this new one. Unsurprisingly, people who enjoy seeing impossibly large gorillas jumping around in the Earth’s hollow core and respectable actors who say phrases like ‘Godzillas hurts people and we don’t know why’ would love to see more of those things, and they think getting #ContinueTheMonsterverse to trend on social media will grab the attention of WB and Legendary.
And would you like to look at that? It did. Today Legendary tweeted a simple observation of the trending topic and confirmed that, yes, it realizes people would want more of these monster movies. Nothing new has been announced, but at least this seems like a good sign for even more urban traffic and cheerfully nonsense mythology. After all, these movies haven’t even introduced Godzilla’s terrible son Minilla yet, and now that the Mechagodzilla card has been played, there’s no reason Legendary and WB Jet Jaguar can’t play.
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