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Kong: Skull Island
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Credits
Title: Kong: Skull Island
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Writers: Dan Gilroy; Eric McLeod; Max Borenstein; Derek Connolly; John Gatins
Producers: Edward Cheng; Alex Garcia; Jon Jashni; Thomas Tull; Jennifer Conroy; Tom C. Peitzman
Composer: Henry Jackman
Cinematography: Larry Fong
Editors: Richard Pearson
Production
Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Legendary Pictures
Released: March 10th, 2017
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 127 min.
Country: USA
Language: English
Budget: $190,000,000 [1]
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Kong: Skull Island is an American feature film of the action and giant monster genres. It is a remake of the various iterations of the King Kong films that have been produced over the years and is the second film in Legendary Pictures' shared "MonsterVerse" continuity, after 2014's reboot of Godzilla. The film was directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts with a screenplay written by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly based on a story treatment by John Gatins. It premiered in the United States on March 10th, 2017.

Kong: Skull Island features an ensemble cast which includes Tom Hiddleston as James Conrad, Samuel L. Jackson as Preston Packard, Brie Larson as Mason Weaver, John C. Reilly as Hank Marlow, John Goodman as Bill Randa, and Corey Hawkins as Houston Brooks.

Cast[]

Incomplete

Actor Role
Tom Hiddleston James Conrad
Samuel L. Jackson Preston Packard
Brie Larson Mason Weaver
John C. Reilly Hank Marlow
John Goodman Bill Randa
Corey Hawkins Houston Brooks
John Ortiz Victor Nieves
Tian Jing San
Toby Kebbell Jack Chapman/Kong
Jason Mitchell Mills
Shea Whigham Cole
Thomas Mann Slivko
Eugene Cordero Reles
Marc Evan Jackson Landsat Steve
Will Brittain Young Marlow/Marlow's son
Miyavi Gunpei Ikari
Richard Jenkins Senator Willis

Notes[]

  • This is the eighth live-action film to feature the character of King Kong. It is the sixth American film. It is the second film in the franchise to take place in the 1970s.
  • Early preview screenings for Kong: Skull Island were shown in the United States on Thursday evening, March 9th, 2017 - one day before the world premiere. The movie earned $3.7 million dollars on its initial Thursday release, though it still trailed behind the critically praised Logan, which had its test screening a week earlier. [2]
  • Independent trackers predicted that Kong: Skull Island would earn between $45-50 million over the course of its opening weekend. [3]
  • During the premiere of Kong: Skull Island in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, some tiki torches, or possibly even a volcano prop got out of control lighting a large scale-model of Kong and the nearby stage on fire. Fortunately, there were no injuries. [4]
  • The events of this film take place in the year 1973.

Trivia[]

  • The tagline to this film is "Hail to the King".
  • Actor John Goodman is no stranger to "monster" fare. He was the voice of James P. "Sulley" Sullivan - a large blue-furred monster in Monsters, Inc. in 2001 and he played a crack-pot named Howard Stambler in 10 Cloverfield Lane, which is a spin-off of 2008's Cloverfield, which featured a giant monster.
  • Per the timeline of this film, this would have been around the same era that Godzilla was first swapping punches with a beastie known as Megalon. Godzilla vs. Megalon was released in March, 1973.

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References[]

  1. IMDB; Kong: Skull Island (2017); Box office & business.
  2. Variety.com; "Box Office: 'Kong: Skull island' Opens With $3.7 Million on Thursday". McNary, Dave (3-10-17).
  3. The Wrap.com; "'Kong: Skull Island' Is King at Thursday Box Office With $3.7 Million". Verhoeven, Beatrice (3-10-17).
  4. TMZ.com; March 10th, 2017. 'King Kong' Premiere UP IN FLAMES!!'.
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