Let's get ready to rumble! Looks like Legendary Pictures is setting up a monster-on-monster fight between Godzilla and King Kong. Today at their Comic-Con panel, Legendary announced a new King Kong film,
Skull Island. They made the announcement with a teaser trailer featuring King Kong and his ground-shaking roar. Skull Island first appeared in the 1933
King Kong film. The fictional island is the home of giant gorilla and many other unusual creatures - many of whom were thought to be extinct.
KING KONG - Academy Award winning director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) brings his sweeping cinematic vision to King Kong. Get ready for breathtaking action in this thrilling epic adventure about a legendary gorilla captured on a treacherous island and brought to civilization, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival.
KING KONG was directed by Peter Jackson, from a script written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson. The cast includes: Naomi Watts; Jack Black; Adrien Brody; Jamie Bell; Andy Serkis; Thomas Kretschmann; and Colin Hanks. With a budget between $207 to $243 million, that film pulled in $550.5 million at the worldwide box office.