We caught our first glimpse of the new King Kong during this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, but Entertainment Weekly has now unveiled the first official image of the iconic monster.
Needless to say, he looks exactly as we expected, but bare in mind that this version is going to be the biggest yet (which explains how he’ll end up battling Godzilla in a crossover movie a few years from now). Talking about his approach to creating King Kong, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts had this to say about his thought process behind coming up with the beast.
“It was honestly a great and interesting challenge, trying to find scale cues for something that big. How do you frame him in the sun? How do you frame him in mountains? How do you find low enough angles that communicate the scale next to these people without just shooting into a blank sky?” the filmmaker said about the difficulties the monster presented.
“It was important that you understood the dichotomy between the scale of him and the majesty of him, and yet the horror and fear associated with something that big. That fine line between looking up and saying, ‘This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, and I might be looking at a God’ and also ‘I’m absolutely terrified right now, I may have pissed my pants, and I think that thing’s going to kill me.’ What is that threshold and that fine line? So finding ways to shoot him and the island and all the creatures in a way where it’s slightly more reflective and the scale makes you hopefully think everything in between those two ideas.”
More comments from the director can be found by clicking below, but perhaps the most interesting reveal is the fact that he says Kong: Skull Island won’t waste time teasing us with the iconic monster’s first appearance in the movie as Godzilla did a few years back.
