Kong: Skull Island - Part 1

[Inhuman117]

According to @TrailerTrack the trailer is coming out on Monday.

when the have tweetet it ?

 

[Arachnerd]

Only seeing a tweet from November 3rd saying the trailer's been rated and is "on the way".

Given how Fantastic Beats is gonna be released in about a week, it seems like the right time.

 

[LoganGambit87]

 

[Drizzle]

Wow...I'm really digging that so much of the look of new Kong was inspired by the 1933 model.

 

[Abudefduf]

Oh man, he looks so much like the original '33 Kong. Love it!

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Dang, dat f**king Kong.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

He looks like Kong... I am shocked.

 

[rashad]

“With Kong, there’s been obviously so many different versions of him in the past and ours needed to feel unique to our film. I had a mandate that I wanted a kid to be able to doodle him on the back of a piece of homework and for his shapes to be simple and hopefully iconic enough that, like, a third grader could draw that shape and you would know what it is. A big part of our Kong was I wanted to make something that gave the impression that he was a lonely God, he was a morose figure, lumbering around this island.”

Vogt-Roberts also addressed a trope of monster movies that don’t show their creature until late into the film, teasing a new approach for “Skull Island.”

“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.”

Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...ull-islands-new-king-kong#IDR3SGZdL52YhgdZ.99

 

[terry78]

Haha, I bow down to that notion of the monster not showing up until like an hour in. Slow burns are overrated.

 

[Boom]

Okay, that's ****ing awesome.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Love how Kong looks!

 

[Boom]

“With Kong, there’s been obviously so many different versions of him in the past and ours needed to feel unique to our film. I had a mandate that I wanted a kid to be able to doodle him on the back of a piece of homework and for his shapes to be simple and hopefully iconic enough that, like, a third grader could draw that shape and you would know what it is. A big part of our Kong was I wanted to make something that gave the impression that he was a lonely God, he was a morose figure, lumbering around this island.”

TRANSLATION: "We updated the 1933 design."

 

[Boom]

ILM's doing the effects for this, right?

 

[Filmfan93]

Digging the design.

 

[roach]

My friend who saw the trailer said that's straight from the upcoming trailer and that it was pretty early on in the trailer

 

[harryoscop]

Yesss, brown fur! Also updated 33' design!

 

[Boom]

When do you think we'll get our first close-up of Kong's feet?

Spoiler

I kid, I kid.

 

[Arachnerd]

I think the photo genuinely killed him from excitement. Anyway, he looks terrific. Great update on the 1933 design.

I disagree with Vogt-Roberts in that slow-burns are tiresome. It all depends on the execution.

 

[Boom]

If that's his personal opinion on the matter, no harm no foul.

I admit, the constant cutting away from the action in Godzilla did start to get on my nerves after a while, and it was compounded by the fact that the human characters simply weren't interesting enough to carry the rest of the film - particularly the lead. Put any other actor in there with even a shred of charisma, and it's more tolerable.

 

[Arachnerd]

The human aspect on Godzilla pretty much was an aggravation of the movie's flaws, yeah. Ford was a cardboard cut-out of a character and it's sad that they pretty much wasted Bryan Cranston given his character was the only one in the movie we actually cared about.

That being said, I still like that movie and feel like the build-up to Godzilla's first appearance was well done.

 

[Boom]

Oh yeah, I enjoy Godzilla too. I just think a better written lead character and a more charismatic actor would have gone a long way in the film's rewatchability.

 

[Arachnerd]

Oh, definitely. They should have had Ford and Joe repairing their broken relationship throughout the movie as they try to figure these things out. Cranston's character could still have died, but at the end and maybe in an act of sacrifice.

Would have made the human element much more interesting for me, imo.

Anyway, I'm giddy to hear there might be lots of Kong screentime in this.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I like Godzilla with a remote. Otherwise I can't watch it.

 

[Kane52630]

Wow...I'm really digging that so much of the look of new Kong was inspired by the 1933 model.

yep, same.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

Looks really cool. Reminds me of the 1933 design.