‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ First Trailer Stomps Into Comic-Con

By Christi Carras

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown is used to fighting demogorgons — but now she’s faced with a new, much larger monster. Warner Bros. released the trailer for “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” starring Brown, Bradley Whitford, Vera Farmiga, and Sally Hawkins, at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday.

In it, Brown can be seen in the center of the action at the beginning of the clip as a city falls around her. As the trailer heats up, we get glimpses at more than just , including King Ghidorah, the insect Mothra, and the winged beast Rodan.

“King of the Monsters” is the sequel to the Gareth Edwards-directed “Godzilla” movie released in 2014. It initially seemed like a standalone movie, until the post-credits scene on “King Kong: Skull Island” burst open the doors for an entire cinematic universe of rebooted larger-than-life monsters.

Directed by “X-Men: Apocalypse’s” Michael Dougherty, “King of the Monsters” looks to bring back Godzilla’s glory days with an all-out kaiju battle royale between the big lizard himself and his three most iconic enemies: Mothra, a massive moth once worshiped by the ancient world as a guardian angel due to her being able to shoot blinding “god rays” from her thorax; Rodan, a powerful pterodactyl the size of two skyscrapers with rocky skin made from volcanic sediment and a wingspan large enough to create city-leveling sonic claps; and Godzilla’s most infamous archenemy, King Ghidora, a fearsome three-headed dragon with electro-receptor molecular biology capable of generating powerful stratosphere-ripping storms as he flies.

“Friday Night Lights’” Kyle Chandler stars as Mark Russell, Brown’s character Madison’s father. Vera Farmiga plays his ex-wife, Dr. Emma Russell, with Sally Hawkins, Bradley Whitford, Thomas Middleditch, and O’Shea Jackson Jr. also starring.

Humanity’s fate hangs in the balance when “” hits theaters on May 31, 2019.