Ahead of the full trailer release Warner Bros. has released two (or technically three) posters and a German TV spot. The posters include one that feature a close up of Kong's face, the other is a distance shot with the setting sun behind him and people wading in water in front. Both are pretty awesome. The TV trailer combines a few of the teasers that have been released with other footage. Check out the posters and and the trailer below.
Entertainment Weekly posted an interview with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts that shed some more light on the film and also one other big reveal Kong himself. The pic above reveals Kong looking more ape like similar to the original 1930's Kong rather than gorilla like similar to the '70's and 2005 versions.
Vogt-Roberts also confirmed this take stating "We sort of went back to the 1933 version in the sense that he’s a bipedal creature that walks in an upright position, as opposed to the anthropomorphic, anatomically correct silverback gorilla that walks on all fours. Our Kong was intended to say, like, this isn’t just a big gorilla or a big monkey. This is something that is its own species. It has its own set of rules, so we can do what we want and we really wanted to pay homage to what came before…and yet do something completely different." He also stated "A huge part of the movie was designing him and creating the creature so that when you did see him it sort of short circuited your brain and was divisive to people, where certain people immediately say ‘That’s a threat,’ certain people immediately say, ‘That’s a God,’ certain people immediately say, ‘That’s a savior.’ Visually and instantly, what happens when you see this thing towering over you and what is your sort of emotional and intellectual response?" And in reference to Kong's size and when he'll show up in the film he stated "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." You can read the entire interview at Entertainment Weekly's site here.
MTV offered a sneak peek at next years Kong: Skull Island at the MTV Movie Awards it gives us a behind the scenes look at the film (we posted a number of shots on our Facebook page from locations where the filming is taking place). Check out the video above and look for more coverage as we get closer to the films release March 10, 2017.
Kong, a 3D animated feature. Aquamen Entertainment and Pigmental Studios are teaming with Chinese and Korean partners on this $40 million 3D animated film. Based on the main character (Sun Wukong) in the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West. Concept design by: Arnaud Valette (Man of Steel, Prometheus) and Justin Goby Fields (Maleficent) Music by: Mark McKenzie (Mr. & Mrs Smith) (Note this is not directly related to the American King Kong or the Netflix series) Chinese producer Gary Zhang, who is co-producing $50 million animated 3D project Kong with Korean filmmaker JJ Kim, has unveiled U.S. talent for the film, including Mulan and Walking With Dinosaurs director Barry Cook. Zhang and Kim’s production company Aquamen, so called as they are both Aquarians, made the announcement at an event in Beijing. Co-director on the project will be Iain McCaig, who was a conceptual designer on the Star Wars and Harry Potter series. As well as Cook and McCaig, the project will hire 11 other Hollywood animation and special-effects industrial artists to form the creative team. “Teaming up Barry Cook and Iain McCaig to co-direct Kong should doubly insure that classic Chinese culture can enter the international film market. The strong technological support allows Kong to revolutionize Chinese animation,” the Aquamen producers said in a statement. Kong will be based on the Chinese classic Monkey King legend and will mix science fiction elements into the traditional epic mix, featuring aliens, robots and fantasy elements. It was announced at the Berlin film festival last year, and more details emerged in Cannes. The future looks bright for San Francisco’s Alcatraz Island since its transformation into the most impressive Natural History and Marine Preserve on the planet. But when the star attraction suddenly goes ape and KONG becomes public enemy number one, the villain that framed him is free to unleash an army of gigantic robotic dinosaurs on the unsuspecting world. Ironically, Kong is the only force formidable enough to stop these super-powered dinosaurs and the evil genius manipulating them. But Kong is now the world’s most hunted fugitive. Fortunately, there are three young humans who know the truth and are willing to risk their lives to help Kong evade capture, while he battles to save humankind.
Watch Season 1 on April 15 Kong: King of the Apes Starring: Lee Tockar, Sam Vincent, Alessandro Juliani. Episodes - 12 2016 TV-Y7-FV The casting call for Kong: Skull Island seems to suggest the film is actually a sequel rather then a reboot, while this is no guarantee, this is certainly interesting. Principal photography begins in Atlanta, Georgia this October, before moving production to Kauai, Hawaii. “Kong: Skull Island takes place years after the original film. In 1933, American showman, Carl Denham returned from a mysterious, hidden island with a priceless treasure. A treasure not gold or jewels, but the island’s barabric god, a monstrous anthropoid called “Kong.” The savage giant escaped and wreaked havoc among the man-made canyons of Manhattan, but within hours of the giant apes death his body, and Carl Denham, disappeared. Many years later, the son of Carl Denham makes a shocking discovery that leads him back to the site of his father’s greatest adventure and to the answers that will unlock the century’s greatest mystery and history’s greatest miracle.” In an interview posted on MTV's site with J. K. Simmons and Michael Keaton at the Academy Awards they revealed a few tidbits about the Kong: Skull Island. First the film will take place in 1971 in Detroit, which is interesting because it will take place closer to the '70's Kong remakes time frame rather then the time frame of the original and the 2005 remake which took place in the '30's. The second bit of info is that it will be an origin story, which hopefully means sequels. Keaton also seemed to suggest he is definitely on board. Kong: Skull Island is set to be released March 10, 2017. From Bloody Disgusting One of the greatest actors of our time, Michael Keaton, is said to be finalising a deal to join the cast of Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island, says Deadline. Keaton – best known to us from Batman and Beatlejuice, as well as the recent critically acclaimed Birdman (pictured), will join the previously announced Tom Hiddleston (Only Lovers Left Alive, Avengers, Thor) and JK Simmons (Whiplash). Kong: Skull Island promises to fully immerse audiences in the mysterious and dangerous home of the iconic ape as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island. Jordan Vogt-Roberts directs from a script written by John Gatins and Max Borenstein. Universal Pictures will distribute the King Kong-inspired film in 3D and IMAX 3D on March 10, 2017. |
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