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Originally Posted by make_her_grow
The problem with fitting her into the Monsterverse is just that it won't work.
Giant or normal, at the end of the day a human is just a human. With out giving her some sort of power suite or mutations to give her superpowers, it's still a huge mismatch if your intentions are to have her throw down against the monsters. Especially if the kaiju's have powers like breathing fire or spitting acid. Or if they have armor so strong it makes a tank look like paper by comparison. How's a merely bigger woman supposed to compete with that?
The general from Monsters. Vs. Aliens made that same mistake but he only won because it was a kids cartoon, I'm guessing it'll be a vastly different story for a movie meant for adult audiences.
Now that said a movie that's self contained (not every franchise has to be part of a shared franchise despite what DC or Marvel try to tell you) is a whole different story. Make it its own thing and its very doable, its just who will and who has the cinematic balls to try with modern problems like #metoo scaring Hollywood into being reluctant into risking making a woman appear monstery or an antagonist in any way as is? Frankly as much as the movie sucked we got lucky with 50 ft. Cheerleader, that came out a couple years just before this #metoo shit hit the fan.
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Summed it up perfectly. If someone were to lump a Fifty-Foot Woman into some shared cinematic universe, said universe would have already needed to be set up to allow such a possibility. But that would then rely on another film to succeed. Basically, there needs to be an Iron Man equivalent launch from.
On its own merits, a deft writer could pull off something that turns the concept on its head, like a Legally Blonde, or turn it into a pandering mess, like that Jem and the Holograms train wreck.