‘Kong: Skull Island’ director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and ‘Creed’ actor Michael B. Jordan have joined forces to create an original Monster feature.
Vogt-Roberts will direct the movie with Jordan as a producer. Whether Jordan will also star in the feature is yet unknown. The team are now on the look-out for a writer to get the project moving. The pair are hoping to set the film in Detroit and will be filming on location there and around Michigan.
Revealing to Slashfilm, after getting a taste for the Monster-verse with ‘Kong: Skull Island’ and seeing what his counterparts Michael Dougherty and Adam Wingard are doing with the follow-ups to that film, have inspired Vogt-Roberts to follow that route on his own. #
“I got jealous and inspired by the incredible things Dougherty and Wingard are doing right now, so I’m creating my own sandbox to play in.”
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Vogt-Roberts made his debut with the 2013 coming-of-age indie ‘The Kings of Summer’, which premiered at Sundance. It wasn’t long before he got his big breakthrough with the blockbuster ‘Kong: Skull Island’, the film went on to gross $545 million worldwide. He is also attached to Sony’s Metal Gear Solid.
Michael B. Jordan has been keeping himself busy too, as well as returning to the role of Adonis Creed in last years ‘Creed II’ and playing the antagonist in Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ he has started his own production outfit, Outlier Society. He is attached to Destin Daniel Cretton’s ‘Just Mercy’ alongside Brie Larson and the Tom Clancy-based film ‘Without Remorse’.
