Here's Your First Look At The Titular Monster In KONG: SKULL ISLAND

Here's Your First Look At The Titular Monster In KONG: SKULL ISLAND

The first official image of Kong: Skull Island's titular beast has been revealed, and he looks...well, a lot like King Kong! Meanwhile, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts weighs in on how he'll be introduced.

By JoshWilding - Nov 10, 2016 08:11 AM EST
Filed Under: King Kong
Source: Entertainment Weekly
Kong: Skull Island looks set to be one of 2017's most exciting releases, especially now we know that a movie pitting King Kong against Godzilla is in the works. A glimpse of the iconic monster has already been revealed in the teaser trailer, but Entertainment Weekly has today unveiled a first look at him.

"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," 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." Interestingly, the filmmaker then went on to take a shot at Godzilla helmer Gareth Edwards.


"Well, the reveal you can wait for in the film itself, but you’ll see, I shot this on anamorphic lenses, which a lot of people said, ‘You’re crazy, you’re taking away more space to show how big he is!’…It seemed like a bigger challenge to communicate scale in that way. 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."

To be fair, many fans and critics took issue with Edwards' slow burn approach to introducing Godzilla, so it is a relief that Kong: Skull Island won't be taking the same approach. Thoughts on this first look?

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MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 11/10/2016, 8:26 AM
"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."



Look, I'm not an instant gratification type...slow burns are great when the reveal turns out to be powerful and impactful. But he's right in this case.
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 11/10/2016, 8:30 AM
@MattBellissimo - "6/10, too much Kong - IGN"
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/10/2016, 8:32 AM
@MattBellissimo - this guy gets it.

Godzilla was disappointing imo. Almost a mess. Never understood how it got him the Rogue One job.
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 11/10/2016, 8:35 AM
@ComicsBornAndBred - Disappointing, I think, cause it was misleading. Overall I enjoyed the movie. But it criminally oversold Bryan Cranston's role, Taylor-Johnson and Olsen were both flat, and they built up Godzilla and then pulled the rug out from underneath us...most notably the airport scene....man, that pissed me off.
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 11/10/2016, 8:37 AM
Like....there's defying conventions and then there's just being straight up misleading.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/10/2016, 8:40 AM
@MattBellissimo - Rogue One looks great, dont get me wrong, but I dont get how Kathleen Kennedy saw it and was like "this is our guy for this war film."

It was one big ploy. Cranston was played up, Johnson was flat, Olsen ws given nothing to and they had ZERO chemistry as a couple (better as siblings haha).

Airport scene is just meh
AwesomePromoz
AwesomePromoz - 11/10/2016, 8:48 AM
@MattBellissimo - Reports from advanced screenings of Rogue One say that Edwards doesn't introduce the Empire until the post-credit scene.
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 11/10/2016, 8:27 AM
Also, I LOVE the notes about how they're taking inspiration from 1933 and making him more humanoid.
beane2099
beane2099 - 11/10/2016, 6:12 PM
@MattBellissimo - I swear I'm not stalking yo,here. You've just hit on two points I wanted to mention myself. This seems less like an ape and more like a neanderthal.
MattBellissimo
MattBellissimo - 11/11/2016, 2:53 AM
@beane2099 - LOL respond away, my friend.
IronManny819
IronManny819 - 11/10/2016, 8:30 AM
Oh cool, he looks like an ape.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/10/2016, 8:31 AM
Spidey91
Spidey91 - 11/10/2016, 8:31 AM
very classic-looking Kong, and he's f*cking pissed, I like it.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 11/10/2016, 8:35 AM
Almost as hairy as a Greek chick.
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