Legendary Pictures/Logo Variations
These are the logo variations seen throughout the years by Legendary Pictures, with more to be added overtime.
Lady in the Water (2006):
- The logo fades from the Warner Bros. Pictures logo, and is cut to its last few seconds. It fades to the Blinding Edge Pictures logo a few seconds later.
300 film series:
- 300 (2006): The logo is in yellow stone with brown clouds covering it. This variant was designed by yU+co, who also did the 2010-2014 and 2019 logos.
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- 300: Rise of an Empire (2014): The Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures logos are seen on doors that open up to reveal the mural of Leonides and the 300 Spartans.
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The Dark Knight trilogy:
- The Dark Knight (2008): The logo is in a navy blue tint.
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- The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Same as the previous film, but with the 2010 logo instead.
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Watchmen film series:
- Watchmen (2009): The logo is black on a goldenrod background, with the text in Futura, just like the Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Entertainment, and Paramount logos.
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- Watchmen: Under the Hood (2009, DTV): The logo is banana yellow on a black stripe between two banana yellow stripes, and the other logos (Warner Premiere, Paramount Pictures, and DC) fly in succession with the same variation.
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009): The logo is covered with Max's scribblings, just like the Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow versions.
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Ninja Assasin (2009): The logo is metallic and moves differently.
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Inception (2010): The logo is in black-and-white.
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The Town (2010): The logo is darker than usual and is in a shade of black & white.
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Sucker Punch (2011): The logo appears on a stage curtain, with the curtain rising to reveal a girl sitting on bedside.
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Wrath of the Titans (2012): This was the first film to use the 2012 version of the 2010 logo. The logo is etched onto a stone wall.
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Man of Steel (2013): The logo is metallic steel and moves differently on a tunnel-like background.
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Interstellar (2014): The logo is brown and dusty, representing Earth's arid dry state in the film.
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Jurassic World (2015): The logo fades to white.
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Crimson Peak (2015): The logo is tinted in red.
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Krampus (2015): The logo tinted in turquoise and the text is covered in snow and ice. This was done by Filmograph.
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The Great Wall (2016): After the Universal logo is done, the logo shows up over the globe, then it turns counterclockwise and zooms into China on the globe.
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The MonsterVerse: For most of these films, these were done by yU+co, who also did the regular logo.
- Kong: Skull Island (2017): The logo is metallic blue, put upon a sky background, and the camera zooms around it.
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- Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): The logo is on an Egyptian-like artwork and is made of ancient symbols stone.
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- Godzilla vs. Kong (2021): The logo is in rusty blue on a wall (to represent Godzilla) and animates differently. On yU+co's website, it is in open-matte, and cuts in and out instead of fading in and out.
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- Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024): The logo is set in the Hollow Earth and made out of violet crystals. After a few seconds, it brightens up to start the movie. Unlike the previous variants, this was done by Picturemill.
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Normal version
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Open-matte version, as seen on Picturemill's Vimeo
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018): The entire logo is made of neon, and it takes place on a space background. Also, the text starts off in the screen center, with the camera moving through it as it zooms backwards, and it moves into its correct position.
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Enola Holmes film series:
- Enola Holmes (2020, Netflix): The logo is animated on parchment paper, and when it finishes, tree branches and flowers draw themselves around the logo.
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- Enola Holmes 2 (2022, Netflix): Same as the first film, but the logo is shown to be burning on a piece of parchment paper with smoke on the sides at the end.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022, Netflix): The logo is red against a black background, bearing a striking resemblance to the 2006-2009 logo. The beginning is also cut.
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Fresh (2022, Hulu/Disney+): The logo is already formed and still against a black background. Seen at the end of the film.
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A Christmas Story Christmas (2022, HBO Max): The logo's trails start off in red, and the background is brown. When we pan around to show the infinity trails, it pulls back as a flash occurs from it, and the zoom out from the logo is faster. Then the logo gains red and green neon colors as the camera slowly zooms away.
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The Machine (2023): The logo is tinted in red on a black background, like the version used in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It is also zoomed in a bit.
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