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<blockquote>[The characters] had landed on the island and spent the night on the beach before they traveled inland. They sit around and drink beer by a fire and sign sailor shanties. I just loved it, but it was a bit kind of tangential to having to get to the meat of the matter. In the morning after this raucous night, two saber-toothed tigers come out of the jungle and sniff around the camp. Someone says, "Don't shoot and they'll go away," but the guy takes the shot and kills one. They were a pair, a male and a female, and the other one just goes nuts. It kills the guy who took the shot. It's like the inciting incident of a war, a kind of harbinger; you're in a place you don't know, and now you've awakened more than you know. It was the first indication that we're not in a normal place. There's no such thing as a saber-toothed tiger ''and'' it's enormous.</blockquote>
<blockquote>[The characters] had landed on the island and spent the night on the beach before they traveled inland. They sit around and drink beer by a fire and sign sailor shanties. I just loved it, but it was a bit kind of tangential to having to get to the meat of the matter. In the morning after this raucous night, two saber-toothed tigers come out of the jungle and sniff around the camp. Someone says, "Don't shoot and they'll go away," but the guy takes the shot and kills one. They were a pair, a male and a female, and the other one just goes nuts. It kills the guy who took the shot. It's like the inciting incident of a war, a kind of harbinger; you're in a place you don't know, and now you've awakened more than you know. It was the first indication that we're not in a normal place. There's no such thing as a saber-toothed tiger ''and'' it's enormous.</blockquote>
In [[Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization]] Conrad observes the tracks of a feline or canine he estimates to be at least one-and-a-half meters long, although the creature itself is never seen.
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The Icarus Tigris is an unmade monster originally intended to appear in the 2017 MonsterVerse film Kong: Skull Island.

Name

In a bio for the creature included in the Chinese marketing for Kong: Skull Island, it is given the English species name Icarus Tigris. Its Chinese name roughly translates to "Holy Tiger." In some concept art, it is referred to simply as "Tiger Creature."

Design

Icarus Tigris resembles an abnormally large Bengal tiger or white tiger. Some depictions have antlers, while others have curved, elongated teeth. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts cites the video game Okami as an influence on its design.[1]

History

In the book The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island, writer John Gatins describes the planned scene involving the Icarus Tigris:

[The characters] had landed on the island and spent the night on the beach before they traveled inland. They sit around and drink beer by a fire and sign sailor shanties. I just loved it, but it was a bit kind of tangential to having to get to the meat of the matter. In the morning after this raucous night, two saber-toothed tigers come out of the jungle and sniff around the camp. Someone says, "Don't shoot and they'll go away," but the guy takes the shot and kills one. They were a pair, a male and a female, and the other one just goes nuts. It kills the guy who took the shot. It's like the inciting incident of a war, a kind of harbinger; you're in a place you don't know, and now you've awakened more than you know. It was the first indication that we're not in a normal place. There's no such thing as a saber-toothed tiger and it's enormous.

In Kong: Skull Island - The Official Movie Novelization Conrad observes the tracks of a feline or canine he estimates to be at least one-and-a-half meters long, although the creature itself is never seen.

Concept Art

Trivia

  • Although it never made it to the final feature, the Icarus Tigris does appear in the film's Chinese marketing and the Monarch Files 2.0 bonus feature on home video releases.
  • The Icarus Tigris are reminiscent of the giant Saber-Toothed Tigers from The King Kong Show segment Tiger Tiger.

References

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