The new King Kong in the upcoming movie revival starring Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson has been revealed online.
- Nov 11, 2016
AceShowbiz - A new image of "Kong: Skull Island" has arrived online, thanks to Entertainment Weekly. The picture offers a glimpse at the titular monster. The massive gorilla is seen roaring angrily against the backdrop of wilderness.
"That sequence comes from a point in the movie where you're not quite sure who Kong is, what his purpose is, how people should be perceiving him," director Jordan Vogt-Roberts explains. "Through the folly of man, where our initial instinct is to attack anything that is not a known quantity, both sides jump the gun, Kong and the humans, and it kicks off a relatively messy engagement. At first, of course you're going to perceive something like that as a terrible threat and monster - the physicality of him alone."
He continues, "I wanted to tell a movie about what happens when people are re-confronted with myths and put back into the food chain and how that makes them react and behave and I think that Kong is a myth that we have been telling now, so if you're going to re-engage with that myth I think it's important on a larger scale, but also on a franchise scale that you make it [a new myth]."
"Every other Kong movie for the most part has essentially been - yeah, there's been Son of Kong and King Kong Lives and things like that - but the main sort of Kong stories throughout time have been remakes of the same beauty and the beast story, and this movie is not the beauty and the beast story. It's sort of fundamentally a new telling within some of the mythos of this world and some of the imagery and ideas within this world."
He adds, "We're also fundamentally not playing the same game that Gareth Edwards' Godzilla did and most monster movies do, which I'm sort of sick of the notion that a monster movie needs to wait an hour or 40 minutes until the creature shows up. Kong traditionally does not show up in these movies until very, very late, and the monster traditionally does not show up until very, very late in a monster movie, so a lot of these movies tend to have this structure that's a bit of a slow burn. Something about this movie made me want to reject that and play a very, very different game."
The new "King Kong" movie will hit theaters across the nation on March 10. It stars Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson among others. It follows a diverse team of explorers running into the mythic Kong when venturing deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific.
