Kong: Skull Island
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Kong: Skull Island is an upcoming 2017 American giant monster Template:FilmC co-produced by Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. that serves as an origin story for King Kong. It will be released to theaters on March 6, 2017.
Development
The film's release date was originally set for November 4, 2016 at Comic-Con 2014, with Joe Cornish being offered to direct it. The film's release date was later pushed back to March 6, 2017.[1][2][3] It was announced that Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson will star as the male and female lead. J. K. Simmons and Michael Keaton were originally going to star as well, but the two later left the film due to scheduling conflicts.[4][5] [6] In August 2015, Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell joined the cast, with several other actors being reportedly considered, including Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, and Toby Kebbell.[7][8][9] The film will be directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts with the screenplay to be written by Max Borenstein, John Gatins and Derek Connolly.[10][11][12] Simmons told MTV that the film will take place in Detroit in 1971.[13][14][15]
On September 10, 2015, it was reported that Legendary Pictures had moved production of the film from Universal Pictures, with whom it currently held a distribution deal, to its former partner Warner Bros., with whom it had an agreement to distribute the sequels to 2014's Godzilla in the future, supposedly in order to keep both properties under the same distributor. This immediately spawned rumors that Legendary planned to eventually produce a remake of King Kong vs. Godzilla with Warner Bros., with neither studio providing a statement.[16][17][18] On September 16, multiple sources reported that Thomas Tull had wanted to set up a film featuring both Kong and Godzilla for years and planned to include references to Monarch, the monster-studying organization from Godzilla (2014), in the script for Kong: Skull Island. However, Warner Bros. was reportedly uncomfortable with including references to one of their films in a Universal project, so Legendary moved the entire project to Warner Bros.[19][20] None of these reports were confirmed by any of the studios, and no official statement was made about the possibility of a King Kong and Godzilla crossover film for nearly a month. Guillermo Del Toro made a statement the next day confirming that Pacific Rim 2, the sequel to Legendary and WB's 2013 Template:Kaiju film Pacific Rim, had been indefinitely delayed due to the shuffling of the King Kong and Godzilla properties, but was not at all cancelled and was still being actively worked on.[21]
On October 14, 2015, Legendary Pictures officially confirmed the production of Godzilla vs. Kong for 2020, after both Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla 2 have been released.[22]
In an interview conducted with Entertainment Weekly, actor Toby Kebbell clarified his role in the film. Kebbell plays an Air Force major named Chapman, who spends most of his time in the film with Samuel L. Jackson's character. It had been widely speculated that Kebbell would have been portraying Kong through motion capture, due to his portrayal of the ape character Koba in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes through motion capture alongside Andy Serkis, who had portrayed Kong in the 2005 film. Kebbell revealed that in Kong: Skull Island, Kong will be primarily portrayed by motion capture actor Terry Notary, although Kebbell did assist Notary in the motion capture process and provided reference for some of the character's facial animations.[23]
On July 15, Entertainment Weekly published an article providing more details about the film, including an interview with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. According to Vogt-Roberts, this version of King Kong would be the largest onscreen version of the character to date, standing taller than the approximately 25 foot-tall Kong from Peter Jackson's remake, the Kong from the original 1933 film which ranged in height from 25 to 50 feet, and the Kong from the 1976 remake, which Vogt-Roberts estimated was somewhere between the two. Vogt-Roberts did not mention the version of Kong from King Kong vs. Godzilla, which stood 147 feet (45 meters) tall, or from King Kong Escapes, which stood approximately 65 feet (20 meters) tall, so whether this version of Kong will in fact be the tallest remains to be seen. Vogt-Roberts also confirmed that Kong: Skull Island would be set in the 1970's, explaining that this decade was a time where humanity "could still be confronted with myth" and "there was still unknown in the world." Vogt-Roberts elaborated that the characters would be drawn to Skull Island to investigate after the previously unknown landmass is discovered by NASA's LANDSAT program, which used satellites to map out the world from space. Vogt-Roberts revealed that Tom Hiddleston's character in the film is an ex-British SAS tracker, while Brie Larson plays a war photographer "who's seen all sorts of terrible, terrible things." Vogt-Roberts went on to clarify that the film would not be retelling the classic "beauty and the beast" story featured in the 1933, 1976 and 2005 King Kong films. Instead, the film would be focusing on the mythos of Kong's home of Skull Island. The director stated that he felt Kong needed to be extremely large in order to realistically convince someone who does not believe in myth that they are seeing a "god" when viewing him. The article concluded with a reminder that the film's cast would be present at San Diego Comic-Con the following week.[24]
Also on July 15, the official Kong: Skull Island Twitter and Facebook pages went live. These social media pages included the first official images relating to the film, featuring the film's title superimposed on a blue foggy background, with "From the producers of Godzilla" above the title and the release date of March 2017 below it, along with the film's official tagline, "Awaken The King."
On July 22, the first official teaser poster for the film was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con. The very next day, the film's first official trailer was released. The trailer showcased some of the characters and the locales in the film, and also revealed a gigantic spider monster. Natives living on Skull Island were also seen in the trailer, while a few brief glimpses of Kong's new design were shown.
On July 23rd, the first official trailer for the movie was released. https://youtu.be/_41NDFmZ2ko
Plot
"In March 2017, the producers of Godzilla transport audiences to the birthplace of one of the most powerful monster myths of all in KONG: SKULL ISLAND, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures.
When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman and John C. Reilly star in a thrilling and original new adventure that reveals the untold story of how Kong became King."[25]
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