‘Kong: Skull Island’: Meet the Cast of Tom Hiddleston’s New Movie

Indeed, Kong is king of his domain.

“My first memory of Kong is the image of him on top of the Empire State Building with the light planes coming towards him”. They probably could have gotten away with Kellan Lutz and Nina Dobrev, since the real stars are the larger-than-life creatures of Skull Island. True, it’s a monster movie, and the main attraction is bigger than a skyscraper. Because I think that we’re more than just being strong or just being mothering. Well, what a treat! And I’m willing to bet they have another blockbuster on their hands in their latest adventure on Skull Island. The film is chock-full of twists and turns.

Skull Island is a brand new King Kong story, jumbling up elements of all previous Kong pictures – the 1933 original, the 1976 remake and Peter Jackson’s rhapsodic 2005 reimagination – and reconfiguring the overall property to fit into the Godzilla universe. As their mission of discovery becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape a primal Eden in which humanity does not belong.

The film’s cast does well enough to move the narrative along. Tom Hiddleston is James Conrad, a former British special forces soldier turned mercenary. Academy Award-nominee Samuel L. Jackson is Col. Preston Packard. The group containing Conrad and Weaver come across some natives, and find Hank Marlow (John C. Reilly), a pilot who crashed there during World War II.

Scientists Bill Randa (John Goodman) and Houston Brooks (Corey Hawkins) get the go-ahead to survey this wild place, which Randa calls “the land where God did not finish creation”. Here’s “the usual story: a lopsided mixture of mega-blast effects and a script that hasn’t worked out what opposable thumbs are for”, he writes at Newsweek. There are just enough amusing lines in the film to give some comic relief to lighten the action.

Larson, who plays an important role of a photo-journalist in the upcoming film, titled Kong: Skull Island, says she is excited to be a part of such an iconic movie franchise.

Vietnam provided the “perfect aesthetic” for the film, said director Jordan Vogt-Roberts. I loved the idea of man versus gods.

I also have some issues with how the movie approaches the Vietnam War, and you can look for that editorial on Monday.