Adam Wingard, who directed Godzilla Vs Kong recently affirmed to Screenrant that one particular Easter egg in the film is a direct homage to 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla.
“I would say that the Easter eggs are more directly related to the original King Kong Vs. Godzilla – and I wouldn’t even so much call them easter eggs as pretty obvious homages.
The original King Kong vs. Godzilla saw the majority of the action taking place in Japan, and officially inducted King Kong, a western creation, into the ranks of Kaiju monsters that Japanese cinema had made popular the world over.
The upcoming Godzilla vs. Kong is a modern interpretation of the kind of monster movies that have been getting made in Japan since the 1950s.