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Godzilla: King of the Monsters is set to follow up a film that reimagined cinema's favorite

fire-breathing behemoth — and left everyone with plenty of questions, like: How does the

And, is Godzilla really the king, or is he just some scaly-ass poser?

Don't worry — we've got the answers you're looking for.

A host of stars are joining the Godzilla family for King of the Monsters.

The star-studded cast includes The Conjuring franchise veteran Vera Farmiga as paleobiologist

Dr. Emma Russell, Stranger Things darling Millie Bobby Brown as Madison Russell, and

Friday Night Lights alum Kyle Chandler as animal behavior expert Dr. Mark Russell — Emma's

Though there are more than a handful of new characters to meet in Godzilla: King of the

Monsters, the film doesn't go without a few returning favorites.

The actors returning for King of the Monsters include Ken Watanabe and Sally Hawkins.

Watanabe slips back into the crisp white lab coat of his Godzilla character Dr. Ishiro

Serizawa, a scientist at the crypto-zoological organization Monarch.

Hawkins will be back as Serizawa's right-hand woman Dr. Vivienne Graham.

Another actor coming back for King of the Monsters?

Storm reprises the monstrous role in a motion-capture performance.

The vast majority of sequels use the ending of their direct precursors as a springboard

Godzilla: King of the Monsters is no exception.

Set in 2019, five years after 2014's Godzilla, King of the Monsters centers around the members

of Monarch as they go head to head with a "battery of god-sized monsters" — and by

that, we mean Godzilla and his three foes Rodan, Ghidorah, and Mothra.

Mankind once believed the "ancient super-species," collectively known as Titans, were the stuff

The Titans are all too real — and threaten humanity's existence when they rise to fight

Godzilla: King of the Monsters also sees Dr. Emma Russell and her daughter Madison get

kidnapped by a mysterious organization that wants to use Emma's intellect and inventiveness,

as well as Madison's "strange connection" with Mothra, for nefarious purposes.

Emma feels humans and Titans can co-exist peacefully, but after experiencing a great

Despite holding a negative view of the monsters, Mark teams with Monarch's Dr. Ishiro Serizawa

and Dr. Vivienne Graham to rescue Emma and Madison.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters will bring Mothra, Rodan, and Ghidorah back to the big

screen, and we've got the skinny on who the three creatures are and how they'll be depicted.

A colossal moth-like being, Mothra will be both beautiful and deadly in King of the Monsters.

Director Michael Dougherty aimed to give her a realistic appearance, including long legs

that help her fight against and defend herself from her adversaries.

Rodan, on the other hand, is a pterodactyl-like monster, described by Dougherty as a "massive

A-bomb [and a] bit of a rogue" with incredible physical power.

"You never quite know where his loyalties lie.

Godzilla's more of a lumbering, plodding presence; it takes him a couple of days to destroy a

Rodan can level it without even thinking."

As for Ghidorah, the three-headed dragon beast is Godzilla's ultimate nemesis.

That each of his heads has "its own different personality" — one alpha and two "lackeys"

— makes Ghidorah even more formidable than Godzilla's other challengers.

The title of Godzilla: King of the Monsters tells audiences all they need to know about

the monster's ranking in the Titan hierarchy: he's the big kahuna, the grand poobah, the

But what about where Godzilla stands on the hero-villain binary?

As Bradley Whitford's Dr. Stanton states in one of the film's trailers, Godzilla is on

our side," and can help save mankind from being eradicated as soon as Monarch sets him

Though Godzilla isn't out to harm humans, not everyone is totally willing to consider

O'Shea Jackson Jr., whose character Barnes leads Monarch's military crew, the G-Team,

told Fandango that Godzilla is a heroic protector:

"Speaking as a Godzilla fan, I always hated those humans who acted like didn't Godzilla

What happened in San Francisco in 2014 [in Godzilla], from what I can see, he holds down

On the converse, Kyle Chandler, whose Dr. Mark Russell has a "troubled history with

the Titans," isn't a fan of any of the Titans, Godzilla included, explaining:

"They're mean, ugly, dangerous, and they've caused havoc with [Mark's] family."

Looks like some will be hesitant to bow down to the king.

That could be their undoing... or give Godzilla the chance to prove them wrong.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters may be as fresh as can be in terms of its time setting — taking

place in 2019, the same year of its release — but it also incorporates elements of the

Talking with Fandango, director Michael Dougherty detailed that the concept of King of the Monsters

is rooted in the mythology that the world belongs to the Titans, since they were on

In his words, humans are "the invasive species," and the Titans are, quote, "the old gods…

He also shared that King of the Monsters gives the creatures, according to him, "a more mythological,

almost biblical, backdrop" when exploring their history.

"These creatures were once worshipped by some ancient civilization.

I really love that about the old movies that Mothra was this deity.

In simple terms, King of the Monsters sees ancient mythology clash with the modern day,

bringing humans and god-like beasts together at the same point in time.

It's a union partially motivated by a childhood wish of Dougherty, who said,

"As a kid it, always bummed me out that dinosaurs never actually crossed paths [with humans].

The five-year break between Godzilla and King of the Monsters leaves a lot of time unaccounted

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