Massive Skull Highlights First Official Kong: Skull Island Image
One of the exciting things about director Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island, headed to theaters next year, is the promise that it will feature the biggest iteration of King Kong that we’ve ever seen on the big screen. And if this first official image is any indication, well, they damn sure weren’t kidding about that.
The still, via Entertainment Weekly, can be found below.
“From the size of the skull, you can tell that things on this island are much bigger than audiences are used to with traditional Kong lore,” Vogt-Roberts explains. “Our Kong is by far the biggest Kong that you’ve seen on screen, and that translates to a lot of different things on the island.”
“In terms of actual size, our Kong is by far the biggest Kong,” he added. “Peter Jackson’s Kong was around 25 feet. The ‘33 Kong ranged between 25 feet and 50 feet, I want to say he was 50-plus feet when he was on the Empire State Building. He varied in size dramatically! The ’70s Kong was somewhere between them.”
The film, set in the ’70s, will NOT be a re-telling of the story we know.
“We’re very explicitly not telling the beauty and the beast story,” the director noted. “The original is a classic, the ’70s version is great for what it is, and Peter’s version is a great retelling of the 1933 film.”
Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Wilkinson, John C. Reilly, Toby Kebbell, Will Brittain, Thomas Mann, Jason Mitchell, Corey Hawkins, John Ortiz, Eugene Cordero, and Shea Whigham star.
Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed from a script by John Gatins and Max Borenstein. Producing are Legendary’s John Jashni and Thomas Tull as well as Mary Parent.
The film is about a man (Hiddleston) who travels to the mythical island and home of the king of the apes. A team of explorers venture inside what they find to be a treacherous island.
Kong: Skull Island will hit theaters on March 10, 2017.
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