

Unlike the Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of the 1933 classic, Kong: Skull Island is a pure action adventure film. In short order, they find out that there are creatures far more threatening to their survival than Kong.

As they try to reconnect, a group led by Conrad works to survive with the goal of reaching the extraction point, while a group led by Packard seeks revenge for their fallen brothers in arms.

He lays waste to their helicopters, leaving them scattered across the vast island. As they begin dropping seismic bombs to get a underground survey of the island, they are almost immediately met with hostility in the form of a massive monster, Kong, who perceives their actions as an attack on the island, his island. Entering the island, which is surrounded by constant, intense storms, the crew is cut off from the outside world for the next three days as they explore, with a planned extraction point on the northern tip of the island. Joining the crew of scientists and military pilots is Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), a photojournalist who has been very busy in Vietnam and smells something more to this mapping expedition than she is being told. Jackson), a man who not very satisfied with how the Vietnam War is ending. The military escort for their expedition is a helicopter squadron known as the Sky Devils, led by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. He hires a former British SAS captain, James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), to serve at the guide for the expedition. With the United States about to begin the process of withdrawing from the Vietnam War, a government agent named Bill Randa (John Goodman) secures military transport for an mapping expedition to a mysterious and notorious island in the Pacific known as Skull Island. Eschewing the tale of the giant ape that falls in love with Ann Darrow only to meet his doom atop the Empire State Building, Kong: Skull Island presents its own original story of the monstrous gorilla, set in a Vietnam Era haze of the early 1970s.

Based on the success of 2014’s Godzilla and the recent Hollywood dictate that everything must be part of a shared universe, Kong: Skull Island arrives as the next chapter in the MonsterVerse by Warner Bros.
