Comic-Con Kong: Skull Island trailer previews Kong’s return to theaters
Attendees at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, as well as at-home film fans, may be pre-occupied with DC/Marvel reveals, but between the cracks comes the first trailer for Kong: Skull Island. The re-imagining/reboot is packed with big names filling in shoes of familiar archetypes, but this time around Kong himself is much, much bigger than we’ve seen before. The trailer gives us quick glimpses of the enormous ape, as well as some nice shots of the lost world landscape our protagonist adventurers will be traversing, and the movie looks good so far. The cast is strong, the stage is set, and from what I hear this is the necessary second piece for the one-two punch of a Godzilla vs. King Kong movie planned for 2020. Crazy, right?
Watch the first trailer for Kong: Skull Island, read the promotional synopsis, and check out the first poster for the movie after the jump.
I’m assuming that intro was aimed at Samuel L. Jackson’s character, who appears to be a for-hire mercenary type, and it may be safe to guess John Goodman’s hat and vest-wearing dude is the man behind the expedition. Personally, I’m most excited to see some dinosaurs (that machine gun triceratops skull snippet in the trailer was cool), but I’m also hoping director Jordan Vogt-Roberts brings some strong character beats to the picture.
We haven’t been given a strong plot synopsis for Kong: Skull Island yet, but heres’ the promotional synopsis copy in full courtesy of SlashFilm:
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ “Kong: Skull Island” reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“The Kings of Summer”).
In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific – as beautiful as it is treacherous – unaware that they’re crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
“Kong: Skull Island” stars Tom Hiddleston (“The Avengers,” “Thor: The Dark World”), Samuel L. Jackson (“The Hateful Eight,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron”), Oscar winner Brie Larson (“Room,” “Trainwreck”), John Goodman (“Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “Argo”) and John C. Reilly (“Guardians of the Galaxy,” “Step Brothers”). The international ensemble cast also includes Tian Jing (“Police Story: Lockdown”), Corey Hawkins (“Straight Outta Compton”), Jason Mitchell (“Straight Outta Compton”), John Ortiz (“Steve Jobs”), Thomas Mann (“Beautiful Creatures”), Shea Whigham (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), Toby Kebbell (“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”) and Eugene Cordero (“The Kings of Summer”).
Vogt-Roberts is directing the film from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, John Gatins, Dan Gilroy and Derek Connolly. “Kong: Skull Island” is produced by Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni with Mary Parent. The executive producers are Eric McLeod and Alex Garcia.
The creative behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Larry Fong (“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”), production designer Stefan Dechant (supervising art director “True Grit,” “Avatar”), editor Christian Wagner (the “Fast & Furious” films), and costume designer Mary Vogt (the “Men in Black” films). The team also includes Oscar-winning makeup supervisor Bill Corso (“Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) and supervising stunt coordinator George Cottle (“Interstellar,” “The Dark Knight Rises”). The legendary Kong is being brought to life at a whole new scale by Industrial Light & Magic, with two-time Oscar winner Stephen Rosenbaum (“Avatar,” “Forrest Gump”) serving as visual effects supervisor.
To fully immerse audiences in the mysterious Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and his cast and filmmaking team are filming across three continents over six months, capturing its primordial landscapes on Oahu, Hawaii – where filming commenced on October 2015 – on Australia’s Gold Coast, and finally in Vietnam, where filming will take place across multiple locations, some of which have never before been seen on film.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Present a Legendary Pictures Production, “Kong: Skull Island.” The film will be released worldwide in 2D, 3D in select theatres, and IMAX beginning March 10, 2017, from Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.
