New ‘Kong: Skull Island’ TV Spots & Poster Show Man Is No Longer King Of This World
Kong: Skull Islandarrives in one month, and we’ll get to see what Legendary Pictures has done with one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time.Kings of SummerdirectorJordan Vogt-Robertsis behind the camera, making a jump from indie to blockbuster in the same way that Colin Trevorrow did fromSafety Not GuaranteedtoJurassic World. Can he deliver an action adventure worthy of the name King Kong? Some new TV spots give us more of what’s waiting for us next month.
Watch a couple newKong Skull Islandextended TV spots, and see a new poster, after the jump.
The first TV spot basically played like a shortened version of themost recent theatrical trailerthat we saw, showing off the various monsters on the island, teasing the conflict betweenSamuel L. JacksonandJohn Goodman, and revealing the real motivation behind this expedition to Skull Island, a place where science meets myth.
The second spot is where we get some new footage and also more details on just what will unfold in this movie. John Goodman talks about how the nuclear bomb drops of 1954 were done in an effort to kill something. That something is Godzilla, as we learned in the 2014 movie from Legendary Pictures, and there’s even classified Monarch documentary footage to illustrate that.
My bet is that those nuclear bombs are responsible for what lurks on Skull Island, the result being an ecosystem of wild creatures, and King Kong seems to mostly keep them all in line (there’s even a shot of him fighting one of the monsters in the second spot). But when humans arrive, Kong may face his most deadly threat yet.
Finally, there’s one more poster that is reminiscent ofApocalypse Now. It’s not quite as goodas the IMAX poster(or even thewild Japanese poster), but it’s still a solid one sheet. Here it is:
Kong: Skull Islandarrives onMarch 10.
As one group fights to escape and the other declares war on Kong, we discover that the mighty primate is at the center of a battle for dominion over the island, locked into a ‘survival of the fittest’ face-off with the terrifying apex predators responsible for wiping out his kin. Driven by vengeance, Kong will become nature’s fury, and fight to take his rightful place upon the throne of most powerful beast on the island, revealing the story of how Kong became King.
