Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and written by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly, from a story by John Gatins. The film is a reboot of the King Kong franchise and serves as the second film in Legendary's MonsterVerse. 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. The film follows a team of scientists and Vietnam War soldiers who travel to an uncharted island in the Pacific and encounter terrifying creatures and the almighty Kong.
Principal photography began on October 19, 2015, in Hawaii and various locations around Vietnam. Kong: Skull Island premiered on February 28, 2017, in London and was released in the United States on March 10, 2017, in 2D, 3D, IMAX 3D and in Dolby Cinemas. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $146.1 million worldwide.
Directed by : Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Produced by :
- Thomas Tull
- Jon Jashni
- Mary Parent
- Alex Garcia
Screenplay by :
- Dan Gilroy
- Max Borenstein
- Derek Connolly
Story by : John Gatins
Based on : King Kong by Merian C. Cooper & Edgar Wallace
Cast :
- 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
- John C. Reilly
Music by : Henry Jackman
Cinematography : Larry Fong
Edited by : Richard Pearson
Production company
- Legendary Pictures
- Tencent Pictures
Distributed by : Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date :
- February 28, 2017(Odeon Leicester Square)
- March 10, 2017(United States)
Running time : 118 minutes
Synopsis
In 1944, during World War 2, two jet pilots—one American and the other Japanese—parachute onto an island in the South Pacific after a dogfight. They both engage in close combat, with the Japanese pilot gaining the upper hand. A large behemoth monster suddenly interrupts the fight, causing both soldiers to flee.
29 years later, in 1973, former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad is hired by government agent Bill Randa to guide an expedition to map out an island known as "Skull Island". Randa also recruits the Sky Devils, a helicopter squadron led by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard and prominently made up of his right-hand, Major Jack Chapman and Captain Earl Cole to escort them to the island. The group is soon joined by pacifist photojournalist Mason Weaver, who plans to expose it believing it's a secret military operation with dark purposes.
Arriving on Skull Island, Packard's men begin dropping explosives developed by seismologist Houston Brooks to determine if the ground is hollow, despite Conrad's objections. The helicopters are suddenly attacked by a 100 foot-tall bipedal ape known as "Kong", and many are destroyed, with the survivors split into two groups. The survivors' only hope for rescue is a resupply team that will meet them at the island's northern end in three days time. Randa reveals his affiliation to the secret government organization Monarch to Packard and the expedition's real purpose: to acquire proof of the existence of forgotten monsters, fearing that they may soon return to take back the world from humanity.
Packard and his remaining men bury their dead comrades and begin searching for the missing members of the expedition, including Chapman. Meanwhile, Conrad, Weaver, Brooks, biologist San Lin, soldier Reg Slivko and Landsat employee Victor Nieves, among others, encounter the local Iwi natives and meet Hank Marlow, revealed to be the American pilot who crash-landed on the island in 1944 with the Japanese pilot. Marlow reveals that Kong is the island's guardian and is worshiped as a god by the natives for protecting them from the Skullcrawlers, reptilian underground monsters who have slaughtered Kong's ancestors, leaving him as the last of his kind. Marlow reveals Kong only attacked the helicopters to prevent the bombs from awakening the largest of the Skullcrawlers, the "Big One"... thus protecting the locals from it. Miles away, Chapman witnesses Kong wrestle and defeat a large squid, causing him to flee into the woods, where he encounters a giant stick insect. Soon afterwards, he is eaten by a Skullcrawler.
Weaver encounters a giant buffalo, trapped under a fallen helicopter. Kong comes and saves the creature, before leaving Weaver. who is awed by his compassion.
Conrad's group sets off down the river in a boat recovered by Marlow, where they are beset by pterosaur-like creatures, killing Nieves. The survivors manage to connect with Packard, who insists on searching for Chapman. Marlow reluctantly leads both Conrad and Packard's team to the Forbidden Zone, a forgotten battleground between Kong's ancestors and Skullcrawlers. The same Skullcrawler that devoured Chapman attacks the group, devouring Randa and massacring many soldiers before Weaver kills it by triggering an explosion. A vengeful Packard blames Kong for the deaths of his men and retrieves seismic explosives to lure Kong into a trap and kill him, while Conrad resolves to lead the non-military personnel back to the boat so they can rendezvous with the resupply team.
While scouting the path ahead, Conrad and Weaver encounter Kong up-close and personal, and resolve to save him, a sentiment that Marlow shares. Packard's trap incapacitates Kong, and he orders his men to set explosives around the fallen creature. Before he can butcher the fallen simian, Conrad's group arrives and a standoff ensues. Conrad and Weaver convince the other soldiers to spare Kong, but Packard arrogantly refuses, his lust for revenge consuming him. The group is suddenly attacked by the Big One, an Alpha Skullcrawler dubbed "Ramarak". The group flees, while Packard tries to detonate the explosives. An injured Kong recovers and crushes Packard before being overpowered by Ramarak, who then chases the survivors as they race towards the shore. Cole is killed when his suicide attempt on Ramarak fails, cornering the humans in the process. Kong returns to rescue them and, aided by the humans, successfully kills Ramarak by ripping its guts out through its mouth. With the Skullcrawler defeated, Kong allows the surviving humans to leave. Sometime afterward, Marlow returns home, reunites with his wife, and meets his son.
In a post-credits scene, Conrad and Weaver are detained and interrogated by Monarch and Skull Island expedition survivors Brooks and Lin. They inform them that Kong is not the only monster to roam the world. They are then shown archive footage of cave paintings depicting Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. As the scene closes, Kong's roar is heard with Godzilla's..... hinting an eventual encounter between them.
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