In a post-credits scene, Monarch detains and recruits Conrad and Weaver. In a pre-end credits scene, Marlow reunites with his wife and meets his son for the first time. The survivors reach the rendezvous point and leave the island as Kong stoically watches. The Skullcrawler fights and overpowers Kong, but in the end, the ape is victorious with the humans' help. As the others retreat, the giant Skullcrawler emerges from the lake, and Kong crushes Packard. Conrad, Weaver, and Marlow arrive and, after a standoff, persuade the other soldiers to spare Kong, but Packard refuses to yield. Packard's group lures Kong with the remaining seismic charges and incapacitates him with ignited napalm. Conrad and Weaver meet Kong up-close and, seeing his true peaceful nature, resolve to save him. The groups part ways, with Packard's group retrieving the weapons from Chapman's chopper and laying a trap for Kong at a nearby lake, while the non-military personnel head back to the boat. Marlow and Brooks attempt to explain that killing Kong would lead to the Skullcrawlers running rampant, but Packard refuses to listen. Learning of Chapman's death, Packard reveals his plan to kill Kong and avenge his fallen men. The Skullcrawler that killed Chapman attacks them, killing Randa and others before Weaver triggers a flammable gas explosion that kills it. Marlow leads them through a mass grave of dinosaurs and Kong's family members. When they regroup with Packard, he insists on searching for Chapman. They ride down the river, where Nieves is torn apart by carnivorous birds, and secure communication with Packard's group. As Chapman is ambushed and devoured by a Skullcrawler, Conrad's group helps Marlow finish a boat made from parts of Marlow's and Ikari's downed planes. Marlow reveals he and Ikari had become friends during their time on the island, but Ikari was killed by a Skullcrawler some time ago. The Iwi believe when Kong dies, a giant Skullcrawler will awaken and ravage the island. Marlow tells the group the giant ape, named Kong, protects the island from predators, including a race of subterranean reptilian creatures he dubs 'Skullcrawlers' which were awaken from the bombing and responsible for killing Kong's entire species, leaving him the last of his kind. Packard searches for the transport helicopter piloted by Major Jack Chapman, intending to use the weapons on board to kill the ape.Ĭonrad's group encounters the local Iwi natives and an older Marlow.

Two groups form between the survivors, one with Conrad, Weaver, Nieves, the researchers, and one of the soldiers, the other with Randa and the rest.

The unit is then attacked by the giant ape, scattering the survivors across the island. Arriving at Skull Island, Packard's men begin dropping seismic explosives, developed by Randa's seismologist Houston Brooks, to map out the island and prove Brooks' Hollow Earth theory. Army unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard, tracker and former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad, and anti-war photographer Mason Weaver. government organization Monarch, plans a search for primeval creatures on the recently discovered Skull Island. In 1944, two World War II fighter pilots, American pilot Hank Marlow and Japanese pilot Gunpei Ikari, parachute onto an island in the South Pacific after a dogfight and engage in close combat until the fight is interrupted by a giant ape.

The film received a Best Visual Effects nomination at the 90th Academy Awards. It was also a box office success, grossing $566 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing installment in the MonsterVerse to date. Kong: Skull Island was theatrically released on March 10, 2017, to generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its visual effects, action sequences, and performances, particularly Jackson and Reilly. Principal photography began in October 2015 in Hawaii and various locations around Vietnam and ended in March 2016.

to develop a shared cinematic universe featuring Godzilla and Kong. The project initially began at Universal Pictures as an origin story but was later moved to Warner Bros. The film was announced in July 2014 at San Diego Comic-Con, and Vogt-Roberts was announced as the director in September 2014. In the film, set in 1973, a team of scientists and Vietnam War soldiers travel to the uncharted Skull Island and meet Kong, a gigantic ape who is the last of his species, closely followed by other terrifying creatures. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian, Toby Kebbell, John Ortiz, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Shea Whigham, Thomas Mann, Terry Notary, and John C. It is a reboot of the King Kong franchise and serves as the second film in Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse, as well as the 11th film in the King Kong franchise. WarnerBros.Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts.

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