Kong: Skull Island

Kong: Skull Island

Kong: Skull Island is an upcoming American monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and written by Dan Gilroy and Max Borenstein. The film is a reboot of the King Kong franchise and will serve as the second film in Legendary's Godzilla–Kong film series. It stars an ensemble cast consisting of Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian, Toby Kebbell, John Ortiz, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Shea Whigham, Thomas Mann, Terry Notary, and John C. Reilly. Principal photography began on October 19, 2015, in Hawaii. Kong: Skull Island is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 10, 2017, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.

Premise

In the 1970s, a team of explorers and soldiers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean - as beautiful as it is treacherous - unaware that they are crossing into the domain of monsters, as well as the mythic Kong, the "king" of the island

Production

Creature design

 Vogt-Roberts also wanted Kong to feel like a "lonely God, he was a morose figure, lumbering around this island" and took the design back to the 1933 incarnation where Kong was presented as a "bipedal creature that walks in an upright position."^[17] Vogt-Roberts additionally stated, "If anything, our Kong is meant to be a throwback to the ’33 version. [Kong] was a movie monster, so we worked really hard to take some of the elements of the ’33 version, some of those exaggerated features, some of those cartoonish and iconic qualities, and then make them their own…We created something that to some degree served as a throwback to the inspiration for what started all of this, but then also [had] it be a fully unique and different creature that — I would like to think — is fully contained and identifiable as the 2017 version of King Kong. I think there are very modern elements to him, yet hopefully he feels very timeless at the same time.

Cast

• Tom Hiddleston as Captain James Conrad, a former British SAS officer from 1965 to 1971, and a hunter-tracker suffering from symptoms of shell shock
• Samuel L. Jackson as Packard, a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army hired to chopper the group of explorers on the expedition.
• John Goodman as William "Bill" Randa, a government official in charge of the expedition.
• Brie Larson as Weaver, a war photojournalist and peace activist.
• Jing Tian as San
• Toby Kebbell as Chapman, a Major in the US Army and right hand man to Packard.
• John Ortiz
• Corey Hawkins as a young geologist on the expedition. He is a graduate of Yale University.
• Jason Mitchell as Glenn Mill, a helicopter pilot.
• Shea Whigham
• Thomas Mann as Blake Simpson, a young soldier on the expedition.
• Terry Notary as Kong (motion capture), a mythical monstrous giant gorilla who is worshiped as the king on Skull Island by its natives.
• John C. Reilly