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Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. 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. The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian, Toby Kebbell, John Ortiz, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Shea Whigham, Thomas Mann, Terry Notary, and John C. Reilly. 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.

The film was announced in July 2014 at San Diego Comic-Con, and Vogt-Roberts was announced as the director in September 2014. The project initially began at Universal Pictures as an origin story but was later moved to Warner Bros. to develop a shared cinematic universe featuring Godzilla and Kong. Principal photography began in October 2015 in Hawaii and various locations around Vietnam and ended in March 2016.

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. It was also a box office success, grossing $566 million worldwide, becoming the highest grossing installment in the MonsterVerse to date. The film received a Best Visual Effects nomination at the 90th Academy Awards. A sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong, was released on March 24, 2021.

Plot

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.

In 1973, Bill Randa, head of the U.S. government organization Monarch, plans a search for primeval creatures on the recently discovered Skull Island. He recruits a U.S. Army unit commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard, tracker and former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad, and anti-war photographer Mason Weaver. 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. The unit is then attacked by the giant ape, scattering the survivors across the island. 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. Packard searches for the transport helicopter piloted by Major Jack Chapman, intending to use the weapons on board to kill the ape.

Conrad s group encounters the local Iwi natives and an older Marlow. 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 awakened from the bombing and responsible for killing Kong s entire species, leaving him the last of his kind. The Iwi believe when Kong dies, a giant Skullcrawler will awaken and ravage the island. Marlow reveals he and Ikari had become friends during their time on the island, but Ikari was killed by a Skullcrawler some time ago. 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. They ride down the river, where Nieves is torn apart by carnivorous birds, and secure communication with Packard s group. When they regroup with Packard, he insists on searching for Chapman.

Marlow leads them through a mass grave of dinosaurs and Kong s family members. The Skullcrawler that killed Chapman attacks them, killing Randa and others before Weaver triggers a flammable gas explosion that kills it. Learning of Chapman s death, Packard reveals his plan to kill Kong and avenge his fallen men. Marlow and Brooks attempt to explain that killing Kong would lead to the Skullcrawlers running rampant, but Packard refuses to listen. 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. Conrad and Weaver meet Kong up-close and, seeing his true peaceful nature, resolve to save him. Packard s group lures Kong with the remaining seismic charges and incapacitates him with ignited napalm. Conrad, Weaver, and Marlow arrive and, after a standoff, persuade the other soldiers to spare Kong, but Packard refuses to yield. As the others retreat, the giant Skullcrawler emerges from the lake, and Kong crushes Packard. The Skullcrawler fights and overpowers Kong, but in the end, the ape is victorious with the humans help. The survivors reach the rendezvous point and leave the island as Kong stoically watches.

In a pre-end credits scene, Marlow reunites with his wife and meets his son for the first time. In a post-credits scene, Monarch detains and recruits Conrad and Weaver. San Lin and Brooks inform them that Kong is not the only monster king and show archive footage of cave paintings depicting Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah. The final image shows Godzilla and Ghidorah in battle.

Cast

  • Tom Hiddleston as James Conrad:An ex-British Special Air Service Captain who served in the Vietnam War with the Australian Special Air Service Regiment that Randa hires as a hunter-tracker for the expedition. Hiddleston described his character as a man who holds no political allegiance in the conflict but understands conflict. He further states, He s a former soldier who has been formed by an understanding of war, but his specific skill set is something that s attached to the power of nature; and I think that s something people haven t seen in a long time.
  • Samuel L. Jackson as Preston Packard:The United States Army Lieutenant Colonel and Sky Devils helicopter squadron leader assigned to be the expedition s military escort. Jackson compares his character to Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick, stating, He does have to exact some measure of revenge for the people he s lost. That s just the nature of how we operate—eye for an eye!
  • John Goodman as William Bill Randa:A senior official in the government organization Monarch, who is in charge of the expedition.
  • Brie Larson as Mason Weaver:An anti-war photographer and investigative photojournalist. Larson stated her character has her own sort of motive for joining the expedition: That s the interesting thing about this movie. It s a group of misfits that are all coming from different angles looking at the same thing. You get to see how many different views in regards to nature and how we should handle it are dealt with from many different perspectives . Larson further added that Weaver has an interest and respect for nature and Through that she has a closer, more loving, and intimate relationship with Kong.
  • Jing Tian as San Lin:A biologist working for Monarch. According to Vogt-Roberts and Borenstein, her role was initially larger, but rewrites reduced it. Alison de Souza of the Straits Times wrote that in the final film, Jing Tian s role would be described in Chinese as a hua ping (花瓶), meaning a vase, which refers to insignificant parts, and that she hardly does or says a thing.
  • Toby Kebbell as Jack Chapman:A United States Army major and Sea Stallion helicopter pilot who is Packard s right-hand man.
  • John Ortiz as Victor Nieves:A senior Landsat official on the expedition.
  • Corey Hawkins as Houston Brooks:A geologist and Yale University graduate, recruited by Monarch for his groundbreaking theories on seismology. An older version portrayed by Joe Morton appears in Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
  • Jason Mitchell as Glenn Mills:A warrant officer, helicopter pilot of the Sky Devils, and close friend of Cole.
  • Shea Whigham as Earl Cole:A seasoned Captain of the Sky Devils who wields an AK-47 instead of an M16 and a close friend of Mills.
  • Thomas Mann as Reg Slivko:A Sky Devils warrant officer, known for carrying a portable record player.
  • Terry Notary and Toby Kebbell as Kong (mo-cap performance):A 104-foot-tall gorilla who is the last of his kind and is worshiped as the king and god on Skull Island by the Iwi natives. Notary stated that this Kong is an adolescent, and he tried to play Kong like a 14-year-old that s trapped in the life of an adult , saying it took three days to film the motion capture scenes. Besides playing Chapman, Toby Kebbell also provided some facial references for Kong, stating, I gave some facial reference – certain subtleties, certain looks. Terry and I worked on stuff together and created what Kong needed. I was just there as backup for pieces that Terry really wanted to get details on. It s a real honor to be asked by someone who s a great performer, to come and help support their performance.
  • John C. Reilly as Hank Marlow:A U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenant of the 45th Pursuit Squadron stranded on Skull Island for nearly 29 years since World War II. He knows the island s creatures and is a friend of the Iwi natives. Will Brittain portrays a young Hank Marlow and also plays Marlow s son.

Additionally, Eugene Cordero appears as Reles, a Sky Devils warrant officer and Packard s door gunner; Marc Evan Jackson portrays Steve Woodward, a Landsat employee on the expedition; Richard Jenkins portrays Senator Al Willis, a politician who reluctantly funds the expedition; Miyavi portrays Gunpei Ikari, a Japanese World War II pilot who crash-lands on Skull Island alongside Marlow; and Robert Taylor plays the captain of the Athena. Thomas Middleditch, who would later play a key role in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, voices Jerry. Moisés Arias, Nick Robinson, and Erin Moriarty appear as bar guests, while Dat Phan portrays a bar thug.

Production

Development

In 2013, Peter Jackson, director of the 2005 remake of King Kong, initially handpicked Adam Wingard to direct Skull Island, a sequel to Jackson s film. Jackson later suggested Guillermo del Toro. Upon the film transitioning studios, Wingard and Jackson were dropped from the project, while producer Mary Parent remained on board. The film was officially announced by Legendary Pictures at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, and Universal Pictures was the distributor. Legendary then moved the project to Warner Bros. to develop a crossover film featuring Kong and Godzilla. Legendary offered Joe Cornish the job of directing the film. In September 2014, the studio announced that Jordan Vogt-Roberts would direct the film.

Writing

The script had some screenwriters attached before filming. Seeking continuity between the King Kong and Godzilla worlds, Max Borenstein (writer of 2014 s Godzilla) wrote the first draft, while John Gatins was hired to write the second draft. In writing the script, Borenstein did not want to repeat the Beauty and the Beast plot synonymous with King Kong movies and took into account the outdated elements of the treatment of the island natives and the damsel in distress. His initial influence was Apocalypse Now, revealing,

What popped into my head for the paradigm of the movie was Apocalypse Now. That s obviously a war movie, but I liked the idea of people moving upriver to face a misunderstood force that they think of as a villain, but ultimately they come to realize is much more complicated.

Before Vogt-Roberts signed on as director, Borenstein thought of having the film begin during the Vietnam War and jump forward to the present day. After Legendary rejected it, Borenstein instead had the film take place before the original King Kong film in 1917 during World War I while keeping the Apocalypse Now concept. The premise had Tom Hiddleston s character leading a rescue team to Skull Island to find his missing brother, who got stranded there while searching for a Titan Serum believed to cure all illnesses. After this, Borenstein again retooled the story to take place in the present day.

After Jordan Vogt-Roberts joined the project, he met with Borenstein. Liking the Apocalypse Now concept, Vogt-Roberts pitched it to Legendary with the story taking place at the end of the Vietnam War, which the studio accepted. It was later revealed that Dan Gilroy had also collaborated on the Borenstein/Gatins draft. On August 18, 2015, it was confirmed that Derek Connolly was also doing script rewrites. Borenstein worked a final pass on the screenplay before shooting began and credited the script to all of the writers, saying, It was definitely collaborative in terms of what s on the screen, though none of us worked together. There are pieces of my work in there as well as the work of the other two writers and John Gatins, who was credited for story. Everybody had a really good hand in it.

Gilroy revealed that many backstories and character moments were dropped from his draft, specifically for Mason Weaver and James Conrad s characters, feeling that the film had room to explore them. Gilroy disclosed,

Brie s was somebody who was really war-weary and had taken photographs for far too long. She didn t believe in anything – so the first time she saw Kong, it was like an awakening. She comes. Tom s character was a guy whose unit had been attacked by a big monster out of Vietnam – so he was in search of this thing. Instead of them approaching him at the bar and giving him a job, I had him like, I want on board. I like those characters a lot… but they didn t want to go with that.

Despite these ideas being dropped, Gilroy felt the film turned out to be a good movie regardless. In April 2016, artist Joe DeVito sued producers of the movie for using elements of his Skull Island universe, which he claimed he created and the producers used without his permission.

Creature design

Director Vogt-Roberts brought in Industrial Light & Magic to help create the creature design for Kong, according to VFX supervisor Jeff White, he stated that he and the team wanted it to be a combination of new-school and old-school techniques; using keyframe animation to give it the scale that it needed while developing motion-capture facial expressions that added to his character. Vogt-Roberts wanted Kong to look iconic and straightforward enough that a third-grader could draw him, and the image would still be recognizable. Vogt-Roberts also wanted Kong to feel like a lonely god, he was a morose figure, lumbering around this island, and took the design back to the 1933 incarnation, which presented Kong as a bipedal creature that walks in an upright position. Vogt-Roberts additionally stated, If anything, our Kong is meant to be a throwback to the 33 version. was a movie monster, so we worked really hard to take some of the elements of the 33 version, some of those exaggerated features, some of those cartoonish and iconic qualities, and then make them their own…We created something that to some degree served as a throwback to the inspiration for what started all of this, but then also it be a fully unique and different creature that – I would like to think – is fully contained and identifiable as the 2017 version of King Kong. I think there are very modern elements to him, yet hopefully, he feels very timeless at the same time.

Hayao Miyazaki s Princess Mononoke helped influence the monsters design and approach; Vogt-Roberts stated, Miyazaki Princess Mononoke was actually a big reference in the way that the spirit creatures sort of have their own domains and fit within that. So a big thing trying to design creatures that felt realistic and could exist in an ecosystem that feels sort of wild and out there, and then also design things that simultaneously felt beautiful and horrifying at the same time.

The two-armed pit lizard from the 1933 King Kong film was used as a reference for the Skullcrawlers. They were also inspired by a number of other cinematic creatures; Vogt-Roberts stated, That creature, beyond being a reference to a creature from the 1933 film, is also this crazy fusion of all of the influences throughout my life – like the first angel from Evangelion, and No-Face from Spirited Away, and Cubone from Pokémon.

Casting

At the same time as the announcement of Vogt-Roberts as director, the studio also announced that Tom Hiddleston would play the lead role. For a time, both J. K. Simmons and Michael Keaton were attached to roles, but they left due to scheduling difficulties. On July 23, 2015, Brie Larson was cast in the film to play the female lead. On August 5, 2015, it was announced that Corey Hawkins joined the cast in a supporting role. On August 6, 2015, Deadline Hollywood reported that the studio was in early talks with Samuel L. Jackson to replace the role Simmons vacated, while John C. Reilly was eyed for Keaton s role but not offered it yet. Tom Wilkinson was also offered a role in the film.

On August 20, 2015, Toby Kebbell joined the film s cast, while Jackson and Reilly were confirmed for roles. Jackson s deal was worth five million dollars. On August 25, 2015, Jason Mitchell joined the cast to play a pilot. On September 25, 2015, John Goodman was cast to play Randa, a government official and leader of an expedition and Thomas Mann was also cast. On October 1, 2015, John Ortiz and Shea Whigham were added to the cast in unspecified roles. On October 13, 2015, Eugene Cordero joined the film, and on November 2, 2015, it was announced Will Brittain had joined the cast, portraying a pilot, in one of the last key leads in the film. In May 2016, Toby Kebbell revealed that Terry Notary would perform Kong through motion capture and that Kebbell provided some guidance for Kong s motion capture sequences.

Filming

Principal photography on the film began on October 19, 2015, and concluded on March 18, 2016. Filming took place in the northern portion of Vietnam, including Tràng An, Vân Long and Tam Cốc (Ninh Bình Province), Hạ Long Bay (Quảng Ninh Province), and the entrance of Tú Làn Caves System (Tân Hoá, Trung Hoá Village, Minh Hoá District Quảng Bình Province) with the help of The Creatv Company in Vietnam and Nicholas Simon as line producer. Filming also took place on the island of Oahu in Hawaii, with Renee Confair as production supervisor, and Australia s Gold Coast, with Jennifer Cornwell as production manager for the unit. Locations included Honolulu s Chinatown and the Kualoa Ranch and Waikane Valley (Ohulehule Forest Conservancy) on Oahu. In mid-January 2016, filming started in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

Influences

Vogt-Roberts has cited several films that inspired Kong: Skull Island, stating, If I were going to break it down for people, I d say you obviously have Apocalypse Now and just the era of 70s filmmaking, with films like The Conversation, too. Also Platoon was an inspiration, and many other films and anime and videogames such as the South Korean films (The Host and The Good, the Bad, the Weird and Oldboy), works by Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away), and other films and videogames such as Apocalypse Now, Aliens series, Legend Of Zelda series, Shadow Of The Colossus, and so on. The entire Neon Genesis Evangelion series was a big influence. Vogt-Roberts also cited Princess Mononoke as an influence on the approach and design of the monsters. He mentioned Sachiel from Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cubone from Pokémon, No-Face from Spirited Away, and the two-legged lizard from the 1933 King Kong as inspirations for the Skullcrawlers.

Music

Henry Jackman composed the score. Jackman blended 70s psychedelic guitars into the score to blend with the film s setting in the 1970s. Vogt-Roberts wanted to use songs from the Vietnam era and a myriad of hits from the as it provides a striking dichotomy, sets the tone and gives us great moments of fun. The score was recorded at AIR Lyndhurst Studios with the London Voices and conducted by Gavin Greenaway, with additional music by Alex Belcher, Halli Cauthery, and Stephen Hilton. The soundtrack was digitally released on March 3, 2017, through WaterTower Music and then later released in 2018 by Waxwork Records on a double LP.

Release

Merchandise

The merchandise for the film was a Walmart exclusive in 2017. A large Kong figure was the main toy featuring a Jack Chapman with a missile launcher. In addition to Walmart selling the toys, Amazon.com sells them too. Also, two costumes for Kong were made and sold during Halloween. One of them is a standard costume, while the other was an inflatable Kong suit.

On April 7, 2017, Legendary announced a four-issue graphic novel series called Skull Island: The Birth of Kong. Acting as both a prequel and sequel to the film, an adult Houston Brooks nearing retirement from Monarch in 2012 learns that his missing estranged son with San Lin, Aaron, led a team on a secret mission to Skull Island in the mid-1990s. During the mission, the team uncovered secrets of Kong s past and how he became the last of his kind. Written by Arvid Nelson with interior and cover art by Mohammad Zid Yazid (issue No. 4 cover art done by Drew Johnson), the four-issue series was released between April 12 and November 21, 2017. On December 12, 2017, a paperback collection was released. A novelization by Tim Lebbon was released on March 14, 2017.

Theatrical

Kong: Skull Island was originally scheduled to be released on November 4, 2016, but was pushed back to March 10, 2017. The new release date coincided with the franchise s 84th anniversary. It was released in 3D and IMAX 3D, Dolby Vision High Dynamic Range, and Dolby Atmos sound in Dolby Cinemas and presented in 70mm. The film premiered at the Cineworld Empire Leicester Square in London on February 28, 2017.

Home media

Kong: Skull Island was released on HD Digital on June 20, 2017, and on 4K Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on July 18, 2017. The film debuted at the top of the NPD VideoScan First Alert sales chart and the dedicated Blu-ray chart for the week ending on July 23, 2017. In the United States and Canada, the DVD earned $16.6 million and the Blu-ray earned $23.3 million, totaling $39.9 million in domestic video sales.

Reception

Box office

Kong: Skull Island grossed $168 million in the United States and Canada and $398.6 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $566.7 million. With a production budget of $185 million, with about $136 million more spent on international marketing costs, the film needed to make at least $450–500 million worldwide to break-even.

In the United States and Canada, Kong: Skull Island was projected to gross $40–50 million in its opening weekend, as well as a worldwide debut of $110–135 million. The film made $20.2 million on its first day from 3,846 theaters, including $3.7 million it made from Thursday night previews. In total, the film earned a better-than-expected $61 million on its opening weekend, defying the film s initial projection by 35%. It made $7.6 million from 382 theaters in IMAX, representing 12.5% of the film s entire opening weekend. In its second weekend, the film grossed $27.8 million (a drop of 54.4%), finishing second at the box office behind newcomer Beauty and the Beast.

Internationally, the film debuted with $85.1 million from 20,900 screens in 65 markets. It opened in every market except Japan and China. The film scored the fourth-biggest March release with $4.8 million from 672 theaters in IMAX (the second biggest without China in it). The biggest openings came from the United Kingdom, Ireland ($7.6 million); South Korea ($7.4 million); Russia ($6.2 million); Mexico ($5.7 million); France ($4.1 million); Taiwan ($3.6 million); Australia ($3.6 million); Brazil ($3.4 million), Germany ($3.4 million); Malaysia ($2.65 million); India ($2.4 million); Spain ($1.6 million), and Italy ($1.6 million). In Vietnam (where the film was primarily shot and set), it scored the biggest opening of all time there with $2.5 million; this was the week after a huge model of the primate outside the theater caught on fire at the film s premiere. The film would eventually open in China with $71.6 million (its largest international market) and $3.5 million in Japan, where the film was released as King Kong: Giant God of Skull Island (Kingu Kongu: Dokurotou no Kyoshin). After its overseas run, the film would gross US$398 million internationally. It is the highest-grossing film in the MonsterVerse to date.

Critical response

Kong: Skull Island received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 75% based on 387 reviews, with an average rating of 6.5/10. The site s consensus reads, Offering exhilarating eye candy, solid acting, and a fast-paced story, Kong: Skull Island earns its spot in the movie monster s mythos without ever matching up to the classic original. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale. Audiences surveyed by PostTrak gave the film an overall positive score of 80%, and 60% of the audience would definitely recommend it.

Michael Phillips of The Chicago Tribune lauded the film, giving it three-and-a-half stars out of four: I saw little in first feature to indicate the deftness and buoyant spirit he brings to Skull Island. This time, the money s on the screen, but it bought a really good movie, too. Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, noting, Kong: Skull Island is still a hoot. It was a movie that was not at all on my radar as something I was dying to see and yet I had way too much fun watching it. I just wished it had embraced its craziness just a little bit more. (But, yes, there s still plenty of crazy to go around.) Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review as well, stating that all the requisite elements are served up here in ideal proportion, and the time just flies by, which can rarely be said for films of this nature. Kyle Anderson of Nerdist News found the film entertaining but flawed, saying, It s certainly not a perfect movie, and a lot of the characters feel like sketches more than fully-fledged people, but it roars along enjoyably from start to finish.

Conversely, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian awarded the film one out of five stars. In his negative review, he described the movie as a fantastically muddled and exasperatingly dull quasi-update of the King Kong story. Matthew Lickona of The San Diego Reader also gave the film one out of five stars, writing: It s fun to watch in action, but on the human side, the film is clumsily written, over-cast and underacted, with only frustrated soldier Samuel L. Jackson striking the right tone of crazy amid the chaos. Chris Klimek of NPR mentions how Kong is at its mediocre best when it pretends to be a nature documentary about Skull Island s bizarro flora and fauna, but lamented how every time the movie threatens to get interesting, one of its hordes of ersatz, non-animated characters shows up and starts talking again. Anthony Lane of The New Yorker noted that what the film yearns to be, is a pop-culture Apocalypse Now, with the human foe removed, the political parable toned down, and the gonzo elements jacked up. J.R. Jones questioned the film s setting, saying this Jurassic Park knockoff takes place neither in the Depression era, which gave us the original King Kong, nor in the present, when satellite photos would surely alert us to the existence of a 100-foot gorilla. Instead—and for no reason I can fathom, except perhaps the classic-rock tunes desired for the soundtrack—the story takes place in 1973, when the Vietnam war is winding down and President Nixon is being driven from office.

Regarding Larson s role in the film, Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post stated that Larson serves as a cautionary poster girl for aspiring actresses everywhere: One year you re winning an Oscar for a sensitive, skillfully layered performance in an emotionally demanding drama; the next, you re widening your eyes and gasping your way through a great big monkey movie. Michael Salfino of The Wall Street Journal remarked, a starring role in a popcorn movie on the heels of a passion project can open up an actor to ridicule.

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipients Result Ref.
Teen Choice Awards August 13, 2017 Choice Movie: Sci-Fi Nominated
Choice Movie Actor: Sci-Fi Tom Hiddleston Nominated
Choice Movie Actress: Sci-Fi Brie Larson Nominated
Annie Award February 3, 2018 Outstanding Achievement for Character Animation in a Live Action Production Jance Rubinchik, Adrian Millington, Alberto Martinez Arce, Kyle Winkelman Nominated
Visual Effects Society Awards February 13, 2018 Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature Jeff White, Tom Peitzman, Stephen Rosenbaum, Scott Benza, Michael Meinardus Nominated
Outstanding Animated Character in a Photoreal Feature Jakub Pistecky, Chris Havreberg, Karin Cooper, Kris Costa for Kong Nominated
Outstanding Effects Simulations in a Photoreal Feature Florent Andorra, Alexis Hall, Raul Essig, Branko Grujcic Nominated
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature Nelson Sepulveda, Aaron Brown, Paolo Acri, Shawn Mason Nominated
Academy Awards March 4, 2018 Best Visual Effects Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Michael Meinardus Nominated
Saturn Awards June 27, 2018 Best Fantasy Film Thomas Tull, Mary Parent, Jon Jashni and Alex Garcia Nominated
Best Film Special / Visual Effects Stephen Rosenbaum, Jeff White, Scott Benza, Michael Meinardus Nominated

Sequel

In September 2015, Legendary moved Kong: Skull Island from Universal to Warner Bros., which sparked media speculation that Godzilla and King Kong will appear in a film together. In October 2015, Legendary confirmed that they would unite Godzilla and King Kong in Godzilla vs. Kong. Legendary plans to create a shared cinematic franchise centered around Monarch that brings together Godzilla and Legendary s King Kong in an ecosystem of other giant super-species, both classic and new. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts had expressed interest in doing a film about Marlow and Gunpei s time on the island, stating, I keep joking that personally I m more interested in doing a $30 million version of young John C. Reilly on the island. Just some weird, the odd-ball monster comedy with him and Gunpei. Godzilla vs. Kong was released on March 24, 2021.

Anime series

In January 2021, Netflix and Legendary Television announced plans for an anime-style series set in the MonsterVerse. It will follow the adventures of shipwrecked characters that are trying to escape from the titular island, home to prehistoric monsters. Brian Duffield will write and executive produce the anime series alongside Jacob Robinson who will be the executive producer under his company Tractor Pants. The series will be animated by Powerhouse Animation.

Year 2017
ReleaseDate 2017-03-10
RuntimeMins 118
RuntimeStr 1h 58min
Plot After the Vietnam war, a team of scientists explores an uncharted island in the Pacific, venturing into the domain of the mighty Kong, and must fight to escape a primal Eden.
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar, 1 win & 20 nominations total
Directors Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Writers Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly
Stars Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson
Produced by Debbi Bossi,Edward Cheng,Jennifer Conroy,Alex Garcia,Jon Jashni,Eric McLeod,Mary Parent,Tom C. Peitzman,Nicholas Simon,Thomas Tull
Music by Henry Jackman
Cinematography by Larry Fong
Film Editing by Richard Pearson
Casting By Sarah Finn
Production Design by Stefan Dechant
Art Direction by John Lord Booth III,Bill Booth,Steve Christensen,Truong Trung Dao,Priscilla Elliott,Doug J. Meerdink
Set Decoration by Gillian Butler,Cynthia La Jeunesse,Regina O’Brien,Brana Rosenfeld
Costume Design by Mary E. Vogt
Makeup Department Ozzy Alvarez,Katrina Anger,Jason Baird,Chantal Boom’la,Jacki Brown,Amy Cannon,Jett Chapman,Jac Charlton,Carlton Coleman,Bill Corso,Louise Coulston,Paulette Crammond,Megan Daum,David Dupuis,Dakota Elizabeth,Megan Farquharson,Rocky Faulkner,Toni Ffrench,Julia Gadiana,Sean Genders,Sven Granlund,Brad Greenwood,Eve Grelis,Kala Harrison,Mellissa Johnston,Kiana Beth Jones,Gail Kane,Karen Kelly,Laurel Kelly,Miia Kovero,Melody Levy,Dennis Liddiard,James MacKinnon,Cora Montalban,Anita Morgan,Tess Natoli,Ken Niederbaumer,Douglas Noe,Selena Pertzel,Jacqueline Priem,Nicola Richards,Lisa Rocco,Kym Sainsbury,Maria Sandoval,Yvonne Savage,Tia Stephanou,Samantha Thomson,Dieu Truong,Katyani Tumahai,Shelley Veitch,Quinton Wallace,Katy Yung,Jordann Aguon,Jennifer Aspinall,Amy Cannon,Li-Sa Choi,Jaime Danielian,Mahealani Diego,Jessie Galea,Emma George,Paula Hong,Connie Kallos,Craig Lindberg,Ralph Malani,Carol Mitchell,Louise Moon,Lauren Oliver,Shylie Parsons,Kendal Shannon,Tomasina Smith,Lexi Stewart,Andrea Templeman,Erin Tribble,Dieu Truong,Fiona Tyson,Billie Weston,Waiana Wright,K. Troy Zestos,Debbie Zoller
Production Management Russell Allen,Renee Confair,Jennifer Conroy,Sean Cooney,Jennifer Cornwell,Gregg Edler,Noelle Green,Eric Hedayat,Othello Khanh,Ashish Kukian,Eric McLeod,Chidchanok Plodripu,Jason Pomerantz,Jake Rice,Prashant Sharan,Sainath Shinde,Samantha Simon,Charuhas Sonar,Irene Trinh,Valerie Flueger Veras,Jamie Whitfield,Renee Confair
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Danielle Blake,Lyda Blank,Dan Cole,Joshua Randle Firth,Brian Avery Galligan,Katy Galow,Richard Graves,Greg Hale,Jason Inman,Nathan Kimball,Dan Majkut,Sophie McWilliam-Kerry,Toan Joshua Nguyen,Brian Niemczyk,Michael O’Connor,Stockton David Porter,Spiro Razatos,Nick Satriano,Priscilla Stafford,Shea Vargé,Stephen Rosenbaum,Alex Scricco,Stephen D. Shepard,Matthew Webb
Art Department Brett Andrews,Karen Archibald,Adam Baines,Pedro Barquin,Amelia Batchelor,Brett Beacham,Alexander Beere,Richard J. Bell,Mario Bels,Richard Bennett,Zachary Berger,Frederic Berjot,Jill Blackledge,Jack Blanchard,Rob Bliss,Stuart Bowman,Wendy Brough,Wendy Brown,Bryan Buckler,Jason Bull,Kaanoipono Cabrinha,Luis F. Carrasco,Nalu Carvalho,Ashley E. Chan,Dennis Chan,Gary Chandler,David Chow,Po Sing Chu,Ross Clarke,Colleen Conway,Tom Conway,Joseph Cross,Tom Curtis,Gerald D’Onofrio,William H. De Silva III,Eddie Del Rio,Sasha DeMello,Rich Devine,Wayne Diskin,Val Drake,Paul Duffy,Dane Eade,Marlene Eckhardt,Maurice Steve Escobedo,Peter Exton,Dan Eyre,Andrew Falk,Anthony Fitzpatrick,Andrew P. Flores,Kristos Focas,David French,Jeff Frost,Jamie Gardner,Joshua Gardner,Rob Garlow,Leyla Gashe,Kristen Gassner,Adam Gelbart,Roger Ewing Gibbs,Alice Gluszyk,Sonny Grand,Devin Gray,Nic Gribben,Robert Hamilton,Mikel Hands,Kemper Harris,Michael Herlihy,Kelly Hoang,J. Bryan Holloway,Frank Hong,Fred Hughes,Luke Hughes,Matt Huish,Tobias Jahke,David James,Charlie Jaramillo,Ian Jarvis,Allan Johnson,Richard W. Jones,Stephen L. Jones,Tyrone Anthony Jones,Steve Jung,Michael Kaahanui III,Tex Kadonaga,Aashrita Kamath,Kay Karstaedt,Michael Kean,Philip Keller,John Mathew Kelly,Christian Kesler,Ivan Khomenko,Jonas Kirk,Michael Kissane,Mark Knapton,Alex Kopec,Max Kostenko,Maciej Kuciara,Nadezda Kuzmina,Leandre Lagrange,Ellen Lampl,Phil Langone,Simon Lee,Anthony Leonardi III,Stephane Levallois,Craig K. Lewis,Darren Lewis,Chlorise Lewis-Millar,Anthony Liberatore,Ron Licari,Kevin Loo,Scott Lukowski,Eric Luling,Calvin Magnum,Christine Mahuna,Maggie Mannion,Sean Mannion,Mark ‘Crash’ McCreery,Blake McDermott,Tricia McInally,Tess McLeod,Chris McMahon,Steven B. Melton,Candice Menara,Ron Mendell,Gary Metzen,Michele Moen,Jason Moore,David J. Negron Jr.,Thomas A. Nelson,Arielle Ness-Cohn,Murray Nielson,Marla Nini,Richard Nitz,Shanna Norton,Paul Ozzimo,Samuel Pactol,Sam Page,David Paget,Steven Parsons,Ryan Pawlak,Maria-Rose Payne,Valentin Petrov,Katie Peña,Mike Piccirillo,Frank Piercy,Susie Pilzninski,Alvin Pittler,Alyssah Powell,Siobhan Purkis,John Rann,Ben Record,Wil Rees,Bradley Reyes,Randall Richards,Isaia Robins,Daniel Romanovsky,Lee Ross,David Sandefur,Joelle-Lyn Sarte,Scott Schneider,Alec Schultz,Randy Severino,Michael Sheffels,Edward Skade,Meagan Skerchock,Shane Skipper,Spencer Smith,Todd Smoyer,Daniel Soltis,Matthew Speranza,Mikey Squire,Sam Sternthall,Tuesday Stone,Cate Sutton,Emily Thallon,Scott Tierney,Mark Tompkins,Liz Toys,Jeremy Turley,Amy Lynn Umezu,Stella Vaccaro,Roland Vetter,Trinh Vu,Ron Wallekers,Adam Leigh Warwick,Mark Weber,Cliff Weideman,Kelly Westmiller,Evan Whitefield,Paula Whiteway,Joseph Wick,Dale Wilmarth,Liloa Wong,Ronn Wong,Christopher J. Wood,Lixin Yin,Philip Young,Dominic Connor,Alfonso De La Torre,Ben Grangereau,Rohit Prakash Gujar,Tony Stockert
Sound Department Christopher Barron,Scott Brewer,Benjamin A. Burtt,Dustin Capulong,Curt Cash,Brian Chumney,John Countryman,Greg Crawford,Scott Curtis,Steve DeFeo,Peter J. Devlin,Danielle Dupre,Coya Elliott,Andre Fenley,Pascal Garneau,Ben Greaves,Pete Horner,David Husby,Dusty Jermier,Bobby Johanson,Tom Johnson,Josh Lowden,Chris Manning,William McGuigan,Sarath Mohan,Steve Morris,Scott Mulready,Nick Murray,Jordan Myers,Tom Myers,Cheryl Nardi,Al Nelson,Jon Null,Thomas J. O’Connell,Steve Orlando,Carrie Perry,Eva Porter,Michael Rivera,Shelley Roden,John Roesch,Renee Russo,Bjorn Ole Schroeder,Guntis Sics,Steve Slanec,Wyatt Tuzo,Ruth Vance,Chris Wiecking,Ryan Young,Vincent Zabaly,Benjamin A. Burtt,Aidan Dykes,Pascal Garneau,Dustin Green,Evan J Haley,Pete Horner,Mike Lane,Scott Levine,William McGuigan,Edgar Meza,David Peifer,Steve Slanec
Special Effects by Chris Brenczewski,Bruce Bright,Roy K. Cancino,Michael Clarke,Kyle Davis,Lawrence Decker,Dean Franklin,Michael Meinardus,Doug Passarelli,Ray Purkis,Michael Rifkin,Mike Rotella,Mike Sasgen,Anthony Simonaitis,Julian Summers,Daniel Yates,Kamuela Yurong
Visual Effects by Mike Accettura,Paolo Acri,Jayaraman Adhikesavan,Ritesh Aggarwal,Daniil Alikov,Alexandre Alin,Michael James Allen,Melissa Almeida,Cody Amos,Ryan Andersen,Matt Anderson,Florent Andorra,Arild Anfinnsen,Adrien Annesley,Christian Antolin,Chris Antonini,Marc Aubry,Sunny Awale,Murat Ayasli,Nor Azman,Tigran Badalyan,Prem Baddam,Charles Baden,Mostafa Badran,Randall Bahnsen,Eileen Bai,Joseph Bailey,James Baker,Jon Baldwin,Christopher Balog,Ravi Bansal,Johnathan R. Banta,Jason Barlow,Debajit Barman,Guillaume Baron,Trent Bateman,Olivier Beaulieu,Manoranjan Behera,Nathan Behmlander,Alexis Belanger,Kevin Bell,Karina Benesh,Nestor Benito,Brigham Benjamin,Scott Benza,Prabir Bera,Sylvain Berger,Michel Bergeron,Renaud Bergeron,Kate Berry,Louise Bertrand,Miguel Berube Ouellet,Thomas Bevan,Sameer Bhoyar,David Bishop Noriega,Prasanjit Biswas,Jourdan Biziou,Pierre Blain,Olivier Blanchet,Samuel Blouin,Jason Bohbot,Ariane Boisvert,Pierre Bonnette,Maryse Bouchard,Rachel Bouchard,Marie-Pierre Boucher,Mathieu Boudreau,Jean-Christophe Boue,Sara Bourque,Xavier Bourque,Jason Bowers,Stephen D. Bowline,Sreekanth Boyapati,Alex Branton,Ben Breckenridge,Caroline Brien,Stéphan Brisson,Jill Brooks,Tasha Brotherton,Aaron Brown,Jason Brown,Eloi Brunelle,Bruce Buckley,Nimoul Nims Bun,Edouard Buttiero,Caroline Bélisle,Goncalo Cabaca,Michelle Cabalu,Anthony Cabrera,Steve Cady,Daniela Calafatello,Genevieve Camilleri,Ilgi Candar,Jeff Capogreco,Julie Cardinal,Dan Carpenter,Owen Cartagena,Tom Castellani,Julien Chabot,Guillaume Champagne,Karhoe Chan,Yuk Leung Mo Chan,François Chancrin,Moïse Charest,Matthieu Chatelier,Gene Chee,Yasmine Cheng,Peter Chesloff,Annabelle Chevrier,Simon Chicoine,Vamsi Krishna Chilamkurthi,Jung-Yoon Choi,Tim Chou,Craig Christian,Yamato Cibulka,Danny Clark,Jimi Clark,Erik Classen,Richard Clement Tam,Félix Clément,David Cole,Jerome Collombier,John Colt,Samantha Combaluzier,Emanuele Comotti,Juliette Compignie,Karin Cooper,Michael Corcoran,Dan Cortez,Krishnamurti Costa,William Cote,Mélanie Cotton,Laura Coté,Gabriel Couture-Bojanowski,Patrick Couturier,Jaume Creus,Francois Croteau,Joanie Croteau,Chris Crowell,Joseph Japril Cudilla,Dominic Daigle,Christophe Damiano,Kelsey Davidson,Amy Davis,Bora Dayioglu,Robert De La Cruz,David De Leon,Michael DeBeer,Vance Dehne,Thierry Delattre,Mark Della Rosa,Rohan Desai,Abhimanyu Deshpande,Luc Desmarais,Ashish Dewan,Plamen Dimitrov,Mathieu Dimuro,Elisa-Ann Dion,Bhavya Dixit,Tim Dobbert,Roland Dobson,Hannes Doornaert,Anand Dorairaj,Robert Dorris,Ian Doss,Mitchell S. Drain,Dominic Drane,Tim Drnec,Dominic Drolet,Julien Dubusset,Jean-Alexandre Dufour,Rachael Dunk,Venkat Rathnam Durai Raju,Ganesh Durgade,John Dykstra,Amin Eftekhar,Kate Elum,Adam J. Ely,Jared Embley,Louis Esposto,Raul Essig,Alison Farmer,Shaikh Faruq,Peter Fastbom,Jessica Fernandes,Deak Ferrand,Juan Carlos Ferrá,Dan Finnegan,Jean-Pierre Flayeux,Brian Flynn,Larkin Flynn,Cameron Folds,Greg Foret,Rebecca Forth,Frederic Fortin,James Fouche,Rachel Fowler,Steve Fraser,Alan Fregtman,Nihal Friedel,Emilie Gagnon,Adam Gailey,Bradley Gaines,Nicole Galaz,Jean-Francois Gallant,Bryce Gardiner,Robb Gardner,Geneviève Gareau,Emmanuel Gatera,Frederick Gaudreau,Yanick Gaudreau,Audrey Geoffroy,Rino George,Stephan Gervais,Jeremy Geurts,Avinash Gharule,Yogeshwar Ghodake,Brian Giacoppo,Angela Giannoni,Gabriel Giguère,Kevin Gilbert,Shona Gillard,Matthew Gilson,Ève Giordani,Mathieu Girard,Bryan Godwin,Marissa Gomes,David Gottlieb,Nalini Goyal,Lee Graft,Frank Gravatt,Olivier Gravel,Luke Gray,Alexandra Greene,Erik Griott,Todd Groves,Branko Grujcic,Jonathan Grégoire,Veronique Guay,Scott Gudahl,Emmanuel Guevarra,Alvin Gunawan,Vinod Gundre,Rahul Kumar Gupta,Sirish Babu Gurrala,Sam Gutentag,James Daniel Haines,Alexis Hall,Thomas Hallé,Josh Hamester,Geoffrey Harlos,Rio Harrington,John Hasbrook,Chris Havreberg,Trevor Hazel,Ryan Heuett,David Hirschfield,Sherry Hitch,Nadine Homier,Teo Hong,Dave R. Howe,Natapon Huangsakuncharoen,Álex Huguet,Flannery Huntley,Julien Héry,Sean Idol,Darko Ilievski,Brett Ineson,Vladimir Isailovic,Brad Isdrab,John Iskandar,Yasamin Ismaili,Jiri Jacknowitz,Michael G. Jackson,Snehal Jadhav,Rohit Jain,Chan Janice,Stephane Jean-Mary,Seung Ryong Jeon,Celia Jepson,Shivani Jhaveri,Jorge Jimenez,Michael Jimenez,Bruno-Pierre Jobin,Siddarth John,Étienne Jubinville,Jama Jurabaev,Sagar R. Kadam,Raghavendra Kamath,Samuel Christian Kambey,Hiro Kamegaya,Lari Karam,Vidyasagar Karampuri,Nitin Kaushal,Ryan Keely,Stéphane Keller,Kelly Fan,Ian Kelly,Shea Kerry,Harimander Singh Khalsa,Suraj Kaur Khalsa,Ara Khanikian,Alex Kim,Dongsoo Kim,Stephen King,Oliver Kirchhoff,Amber Kirsch,Julien Klein,Claver Knovick,Jesse Kobayashi,Alexander Koehl,Jean Le Koh,Kenneth Koh,Yishan Koh,Robert Kosai,Heath Kraynak,Alexa Kroese,Martin Kulig,Amit George Kuruvilla,Frankie Kwak,Felder Kwek,Oseong Kwon,Khaled Labidi,Caroline Labrie,Genevieve Lacombe,Alain Lacroix,Alexandre Lafortune,Melissa Laframboise-Maille,Mathieu Lalonde,Karl Alexandre Lamarre-Parent,Kai-Hua Lan,Lana Lan,Vassilios Lanaris,Isabelle Langlois,Eric Larivee,Maxime Laroche,Xavier Larocque,Francis Larouche,Niña Laureles,Maxime Laurent,Jean-Marc Laurin,Geoffroy Lauzon,Evelyne Leblond,Marc Lebuis,Catherine Lecavalier,Mathieu Leclaire,Francois Leduc,Adam Lee,Herman Lee,Kerry Lee,Benoit Lefebvre,Samuel Legris,Cynthia Lejeune,Maxime Lemieux,Teresa Leong,Samuel Lepage-Bedard,Jean-Sebastien Letourneau,Votch Levi,Jamie Lewis,Todd Liddiard,YuanJing Lin,Karl Lindberg,Llewellyn Littlemore,Shenyan Liu,Brendan Llave,Andy Long,Kim Lim Loo,Louis-Alexandre Lord,Samuel Loriault-Goulet,Pascal Lortie-Langlois,Martine Losier,Geoff Lou,James Lu,Andreu Lucio Archs,Russell Lum,Matthew Lutes,Ahmidou Lyazidi,Tony Lyons,Anna Mabarak,Lokendra Singh Mahata,Jocelyn Maher,Lisa Maher,Catherine Maillette,Abhishek Malhotra,Kevin Maliakal,Manohar.Kolla,Nagarajan Manoharan,Michael Mansueto,Jean-Philippe Marchand,Mark Marcin,Karina Mariano,Anthony Mariya,Chulev Marko,Ed W. Marsh,Tia L. Marshall,Gabriel Martin,Lars Martinsson,Alberto Martínez Arce,Shawn Mason,Amaury Matu,Dan Mayer,Aaron McBride,Jonathan J. McCallum,Brian McCann,Will McCoy,Chris McCrowe,Dave McGrath,Bradleigh McKay,David McKay,Ethan McLeod,Brandon McNaughton,Scott Mease,Gustav Melich,Christian Menard,Lewis Menga,Andre Mercier,Simon Mercier,Rahul Mhaskar,Ally Miller,James A.J. Miller,Adrian Millington,Belly Mingmuong,Marty Luigi Miramontez,Eric A. Mitchell,Sayani Mitra,Andrew Moffett,David Monfette,Elizabeth Montes,Samuel Montminy-Brodeur,Chris F. Moore,Douglas L. Moore,Geraldine Morales,Sébastien Moreau,Rene Morel,Benoit Morin,Emmanuelle Morin,Jean-Francois Morissette,Kimberly Mucha,Sergio Mucino,Kathrin Julia Mueller,Michael Mueller,Nick Mulrean,Michel Murdock,Martin Murphy,Alex Murtaza,Elona Musha,Alexandre Ménard,Ajith Kumar N.,Nicole Nagata,Naren Naidoo,David Nakabayashi,Nishant Narang,Charlotte Nelson,Mark Nelson,Avadhut Nerurkar,Marcelino Newquist,Jebb Ng,Sheau Horng Ng,Karen M. Nichols,NikhilKorpad,Jonathan Niquet,Brett Northcutt,Ben O’Brien,Adam O’Brien-Locke,Kaori Ogino,Adam Ohl,Grant Olin,Kim Ooi,Rob Ozaeta,Molly Pabian,Brian Pace,Mario Pace,Karki Padam,Olivier Painchaud,Krishna Chaitanya Palakollu,Béatrice Palin,Gurpreet Singh Pannu,Michael Parks,Neeraj Pattani,Todd Patterson,Tom C. Peitzman,Steve Pelchat,Peter Pelisek,Emmanuel Pelletier,Valentin Petrov,John Pettingill,Mathieu Phaneuf,Germaine Phoo,Gina Phoo,Dziewanna Picazo,Diego Piccinato,Patrick Piche,Jakub Pistecky,Ian Plumb,Patrice Poissant,Ipyana Ponder,Alexandru Popescu,Etienne Poulin St-Laurent,Marc-Andre Poulin,Anil Vimal Prajapati,Ashutosh Prajapati,Alekhya Pramanik,Koli Pratik,Richard Pring,Gabriela Pruszkowska,Omprakash Raay,Simon Rafin,Ravi Raj,Ashwin Ram,Michael Ranalletta,Sambasiva Rapeti,Chetan Rathod,Arka Ray,Pierre Raymond,Clint G. Reagan,Florent Revel,Ron Rhee,Diego Riestra,Stéphane Rioux,Sylvain Rioux,Sébastien Rioux,Andrew Ritchie,Jaime E. Riveros,David Roberge,Tavis Roberts,Cabral Rock,Vinay Krishan Rohilla,Stephen Rosenbaum,Danielle Ross,Steven Roste,Jean-Paul Rovela,Marc-André Roy,Rajat Roy,Jance Rubinchik,Rosi Ruiz,Harrison Rutherford,Olivier Ryard,Gregory Salter,David Sanger,K L Sateesh Varma,Steve Sauers,Andrew Savchenko,Katy Savoie,Rahul Saxena,Tyler Scarlet,Casey Schatz,Dan Schick,Roman Schmidt,Jessica Schulte,Sebastian Schütt,Dan Seddon,Nelson Sepulveda,David Serrano,Maria Serrano,Sheldon Serrao,Behnam Shafiebeik,Sameer Shah,Samsher Shaikh,Prateek Sharma,Betty Shaw,Kerry Shea,Micha Sher,Pranay Shewade,Terry Shigemitsu,Ahmed Shoaib,Randal Shore,Ziad Shureih,Alex Shvartzman,Elvin Siew,Pratik Pradeep Singh,Scott Sinnott,Ali Ashif Sk,Stephan Skorepa,Billy Smith,Georgia Smith,Jason Smith,Tefft Smith,Vaughn Smith,Benjamin Soh,Jordan Soles,Glorivette Somoza,Vikramjit Sorensangbam,James Spadafora,Sonal Srivastava,Marie-Eve St-Amour,Guillaume St-Aubin-Seers,Jean-Michel St-Pierre Lapierre,Randy Starr,Kasy Stein,Gaurav Sutar,Josh Swanson,Josef Sy,Aleksander Szkudlarek,Lionel Taillens,Sylvie Talbot,Janice A.L. Tan,Donna Wing Yan Tang,Lai Lin Tang,Dolorès Tardif,Renald Taurusdi,James Tavet,Jessica Teach,Alexandre Tessier,Panat Thamrongsombutsakul,Philippe Theroux,David Thomlison,Mark Thorley,Greg Towner,Mai-Anh Tran,Alan Travis,Anne Tremblay,Marco Tremblay,Véronique Tremblay,Alex Tropiec Jr.,Jillian Tsai,Doug Tubach,Katrina Tung,Nadia Tzuo,Georgie Uppington,Lee Uren,Pierre-Hugues Vachon,Raphael Valle,David Van Dyke,Gabriel Vargas,Sherin Varghese,Carl Vazquez,Matthieu Veillette,Jean Frédéric Veilleux,Patel Vikas,Pau Viladot,Aylwin Villanueva,Valérie Villeneuve,Lea Vuillemin,Wes Walcott,Waikit Wan,Pablo Wang,Bhushan Warade,Tim Ward,Jon Warne,Robert Weaver,David Weitzberg,Brittany Wetzel,Ian W.S. White,Jeff White,Yanick Wilisky,Wade Wilson,Luk Wing Yi,Kyle Winkelman,Nora Wixom,Jeff Wolverton,Eric Wong,Zachary Wong,Mike Wood,Keiji Yamaguchi,Jeen Yee,Travis Yee,Long Yinghan,Andrew M. Young,Susumu Yukuhiro,Douglas Zablocki,Deborah Zadzora,David Zbriger,Jahan Zeb,Alvaro Zendejas,Paolo Joel Ziemba,Lenka Zuckova,Javier Zumaeta,Emil Alagjozovski,Ruben Gerardo Alfaro Moreno,Rachel Fowler,Victor Frenkel,Todd Greshuk,Nadia Gunawan,Dennis James Hauck Jr.,Mike Jutan,Matthew Lausch,Toan-Vinh Le,Noah Lockwood,Chiaki Matsubayashi,Jean-Christophe Morin,Katie Morris,Goutam Nelikanti,Yadnyesh Patil,Padiyachi Premraj,Nick Proulx,Suranjana Sengupta,Joseph Towe,Fabrice Vienne,Rick Yang
Stunts Kevin Abercrombie,Lee Adamson,Wade Allen,Shane Bell,Stephen Bralver,Dan Brown,Bonnie Campanella,Jimmy Chhiu,Ilram Choi,Mai Suong Chu Thi,George Cottle,Brycen Counts,Phil Culotta,Chris Daniels,Craig H. Davidson,Kiante Elam,Kofi Elam,Kyle Gardiner,Anthony Genova,Andy Gill,Austin Gill,Kelly Gill,David M. Graves,Tad Griffith,Greg Harris,Adrian Hein,Zac Henry,David Hugghins,Michael Hugghins,Eli Jane,Noah Johnson,Brian L. Keaulana,Daniel Kim,Steve Kim,Jess King,Henry Kingi Jr.,Ingrid Kleinig,Paul Lacovara,Will Leong,Brook Little,Ari Loeb,Jess Lundgren,Jeremy Marinas,Michael McGuire,Kyle Mclean,John Meier,Tadahiro Nakamura,Andy Owen,Jim Palmer,Denney Pierce,Gary Price,Derick Pritchard,Ocean Ramsey,Spiro Razatos,Kasim Saul,Todd Schneider,Daniel Stevens,Alex Sundquist,Justin Sundquist,Jen Kuo Sung,Frank Torres,Jason A. Triplett,Eric VanArsdale,Marlow Warrington-Mattei,Jim Wilkey,Marcus Young,Justin Yu,Nicolai Aladieff,Wade Allen,Dan Brown,Sebastiano Cartier,George Cottle,Craig H. Davidson,Philippe Deseck,Keith Edison,Kofi Elam,Anthony Genova,Garreth Hadfield,Zac Henry,Michael Hugghins,Kevin Kent,Jake Kilfoyle,Ingrid Kleinig,Paul Lacovara,Will Leong,Daniel F. Malone,Jeremy Marinas,Kyle Mclean,Ryan Moniz,Tadahiro Nakamura,Dale Radomski,Terani Richmond,Mike Rufino,Lane Smith Jr.,Daniel Stevens,Justin Sundquist,Mark Symonds,TJay Thompson,Frank Torres,Eric VanArsdale,Justin Yu
Camera and Electrical Department Michael Adcock,Steve Adcock,Alfred Ainsworth Jr.,Rylan Akama,Wesley Alley,Michael Ambrose,Eddie Apodaca,Will Arnot,Stephen Bacquet,Shane Bell,Mike Berlucchi,Mark Bills,Jason Binnie,Walter Bithell,Steven Blizzard,Kirk Bloom,Harley N. Bone,Mandy Bradford,Alex Brinkworth,Brannon D. Brown,Jeremy Brussell,Gregory Cahill,Mark Carlile,Carlos Chavez,Don Chong,Peter Chrimes,Simon Christidis,Danny Cochran,Bill Coe,Casey Coles,Shaun Conway,Simon Cooke,Benji Copping,Toby Copping,Andrew Crankshaw,David Crans,Ryan Creasy,Michael Cronin,Rick Crum,Jim Curtis,Lonny Danler,Allen De Silva,Andy DePung,Gary J. Dodd,Gregory Doi,Duke Duvauchelle,Dennis Dwyer,Brad Edmiston,Paul Ehman,Kevin Erb,Reece Erdman,Ron Evans,Matt Fortlage,Nathan Frost,Martin Gacusana,Dustin Gardner,Paul Gilly,Peter Graf,Curt Griebel,Luke Groder,Tim Guffin,Sami Gustafsson,Jacques Haitkin,Noah Hamilton,Paul Hamlyn,Austin Harris,Craig Paul Harris,Stephen Head,Tom Heigl,Adam House,Charles Howell-Lowe,Robert Howie,Colin Hudson,John Iese,Andrew Jackson,Elton Hartney James,Mark Jefferies,Robert Kahsen,Hiro Kakuhari,Lee Kaneakua,Lawrence Karman,Keoua H.S. Kauhi,Kevin Kersting,Lindsey Kinney,Jake Koning,Owen Korb,Jason Lamport,Jordan Lapsansky,Michael Larcombe,Julian Lawrence,Mark Levey,Matthew Linfoot,Scott Lisetor,Peter Lorz,Josh Lum,Robbie MacKinnon,Gerard Mahony,Ryan Manning,Calum McFarlane,Maurice K. McGuire,Bobby McMahan,Brian McPherson,Scott Medcalf,David Melhorn,Luke Miller,Mike Moad,Craig Morgan,Allen Mozo,Jon Mumper,Tony Nagy,Nigel Nally,Aaron Neas,Nils Nilsson,David B. Nowell,Onofrio Nino Pansini,Tom Penny,Mel Perdikis,Morten Petersen,Morty Petersen,Kela Pinto,Michael P. Prisco Jr.,Peter Quinn,Aaron Rapira,Marc ‘Aina’ Ribuca,Ross Riege,Tim Roe,Lono Rothman,Robert M. Sagaser,P. Scott Sakamoto,Rodney Sandoval,Michael Sapienza,Kevin Sawicki,Tuiaana Scanlan,Ricky Schamburg,Kaipu Seales,William Self,Jason Selsor,Naomi Sharp,Stephen D. Shepard,Bryce Shields,Robert Shoemaker,Kurt Simafranca,Jared Slater,Matthew Spowart,Danny Stephens,Jeff Sterner,Michael Svitak,Dewey Tann,Michael Taylor,Ringo Taylor,David Thomson,Henry Tirl,Don Tomich,Ryan Unicomb,Sam Urdank,Vince Valitutti,Raimar van den Bylaardt II,Michael Vivian,Gerald Vogt,Rebecca Walton,Cambria Wassell,Peter Whitby,Brook Willard,Steve Wong,Damian Wyvill,Kevin Zanit,Giovanni Zelko,John Ziello,Chuck Zlotnick,David Emmerichs,Jason Marvel,Kyle Rudolph,P. Scott Sakamoto
Animation Department David Apgar,Jourdan Biziou,Isai Calderon,Kathy Kit Ying Choi,Mickael Coedel,Mathieu Dimuro,Sze Ching Gan,Juani Guiraldes,Zaini Jalani,Atsushi Kojima,Christian Liliedahl,Gary Mau,Richard Oey,David Pate,Alfonso Sicilia,Ryan Sluman,Elwaleed Suliman,Roy Tan,Edmund Wong,Ryan Wasson
Casting Department Sande Alessi,Jackie Benz,Diq Diamond,Barbara Harris,Shayne Hartigan,Bud Hopes,Katherine Hurt,Claire Koonce,Manon Lewis,Nicholas A. Mudd,Mike Passine,Priyanka Sirpal,Jason B. Stamey
Costume and Wardrobe Department Julie Barton,Erin Louise Cardoo,Jean Carson,Cory Ching,Christian Cordella,Adam Dalli,Chantelle Dixon,Aaron Ellis,Laura Frecon,Kacie Guggia,Krista Guggia,Jacqueline Harkin,Jamella Hassan,Askia Won-Ling Jacob,Felicia Leilani Jarvis,Gia Jimenez,Saascha Wiki Kessell,Kari King,Madeleine Maciag,Branden Marks,Mayumi Masaoka,Karen Hare Neilsson,Carol Quiroz,Ivana Sanson,Richard Schoen,Roberta Shaw,Hayley Stuppel,Kerry Thompson,Madeline Turner,Sandra Waesche,Austin Wittick,Susan Zaguirre,Cynthia Bond
Editorial Department Noel Albornoz,Philip Beckner,Edo Brizio,Richard Caputo,Dhirendra Chhatpar,Richard Conkling,Vikram Dharankar,Chelsea Dinsdale,Scott Fox,Cesare Gagliardoni,Kali Kasashima,David Kern,Carol Li,Priyal Mahadik,Vaibhav Marathe,Lara Mazzawi,Timothy Llewellyn Moxey,Bob Murawski,Dan Muscarella,Wendy Nomiyama,Patrick O’Riley,Alex Oreman,Jose Parra,Leslie Quan,Jon Rocke,Josh Schaeffer,Sam Schlenker,Daniel Sessoms,Jason Sinclair,Christopher Stack,Peter Tackaberry,Sean Thompson,Jonathan Thornhill,Michael Torres,Christian Wagner,Matthew Willard
Location Management Ted Alvarez,Christina Beaumont,Tony Brown,Lauren Cooper,John Davis IV,Leann Emmert,Luke Harrison Ford,Sarah Goller,Pono Guerrero,Kent Jackson,Ilt Jones,Pier Laurenza,Angus Ledgerwood,Alexander Martin,Thi Bich Thuy Nguyen,Steven Nyberg,Zachary Quemore,Rita Rosenfeld,Jeff Shih,Joe Stargensky,Benjamin J. Stern,Gilani Sumida-Moiseff,Ken Tran,Logan Wilkin,Kirk Worley,Duncan Jones
Music Department Peter Afterman,Roger Argente,Duncan Ashby,Max Baillie,Garth Bardsley,Chris Baron,Chris Barrett,Sean Barrett,Jonathan Beard,Alex Belcher,Neil Bellingham,Clint Bennett,Christine Bergren,Mark Berrow,Richard Berry,Ben Bevan,Daniel Bhattacharya,Richard Bissill,Nigel Black,Alex Blecher,Fiona Bonds,Natalia Bonner,Dudley Bright,Sara Brimer,Ian Burdge,Sarah Burnett,Alison Burton,Jon Carnac,Paul Cassidy,Halli Cauthery,Simon Chamberlain,Reiad Chibah,Forest Christenson,Paul Clarvis,Phil Cobb,Stephen Coleman,Nick Cooper,Chris Cowie,Caroline Dale,David Daniels,Grace Davidson,Harriet Davies,Laurence Davies,Carmel de Jager,Alison Dods,Bob Dolman,Jack Dolman,Michael Dore,Maverick Dugger,Richard Edwards,Pedro Eustache,Jonathan Evans-Jones,John Evanson,Sarah Eyden,Alex Ferguson,Joshua Fielstra,Oscar Flores,James Fountain,Dave Fuest,Richard George,Alexandra Gibson,Joanna Goldsmith-Eteson,Kathy Gowers,Edward Grant,Gavin Greenaway,Oliver Griffith,Opie Gruves,Gillianne Haddow,Tom Hankey,Jackie Hartley,Katy Hill,Stephen Hilton,Ian Humphries,Philippa Ibbotson,Freya Jacklin,Henry Jackman,Magnus Johnston,Karen Jones,Tim Jones,Matthew K. Justmann,Skaila Kanga,Helen Keen,Gary Kettel,Patrick Kiernan,Andrew Kinney,Julia Knight,Nick Korth,Boguslav Kostecki,Rick Koster,Joanna Forbes L’Estrange,Peter Lale,Oli Langford,Erich Lee,John Paul Lefebvre,Daniel Lepervanche,Tori Letzler,Tony Lewis,Roger Linley,Alison Litton,London Voices,Matt Long,Francesco Lupica,Jeff MacDonald,Alistair Mackie,Steve Mair,Rita Manning,Jane Marshall,Robert McDonald,Martha Mclorinan,Gavin McNaughton,Keith Mcnicholl,Andrea Meli,Alan Meyerson,Janey Miller,Perry Montague-Mason,Kate Moore,Steve Morris,Henry Moss,Kate Musker,Everton Nelson,Dan Newell,Anna Noakes,Felipe Pacheco,Andy Parker,Ben Parry,Oriana Pedone,Tom Pigott Smith,Anthony Pike,Richard Pryce,Judy Rees,Frank Ricotti,Melanie Sanders,Frank Schaefer,Jackie Shave,Emlyn Singleton,Richard Skinner,Owen Slade,Darren Smith,Julian Alexander Smith,Denis St. Amand,Jill Streater,Nicky Sweeney,Ed Tarrant,Emil Tchakarov,Jamie Thierman,Cathy Thompson,Chris Tombling,Edward Trybek,Edward Vanderspar,Bozidar Vukotic,Daniel Waldman,Allen Walley,Matthew Ward,Richard Watkins,Bruce White,Debbie Widdup,Henri Wilkinson,Paul Willey,Dave Williams,Jonathan Williams,Steve Williams,Catherine Wilson,Richard Edgar Wilson,Gernot Wolfgang,Nick Wollage,Andrew Wood,Katy Woolley,Chris Worsey,Margaret Yen,Warren Zielinski,Rachel Bolt,Helen Kamminga,Mary Scully
Script and Continuity Department Dawn Gilliam,Samantha C. Kirkeby,Erin Mast
Transportation Department Roger Baker,William Ballard,Brendon ‘Moose’ Boyd,Neil Brice,Mitch Connell,Michael Connor,Jonathan Curtin,Jon ‘Sudee’ Dahl,Ant Fallon,Spencer Faulkner,Russell Grant,Duke Groder,Richard Groder,Greg Hajdu,Scott Harlovich,Geno Hart,Jared Kaplan,Myles Kawakami,Matthew McGuirk,Gerald Mito,Robert J. Morton,Michael Mulgrew,Ekepati ‘Masa’ Niko,Owen Nobuji,Shyrome Pahia,Tram Thi Ngoc Pham,Adam Pinkstaff,Bea S. Rembeczky,Jason Rowling,Marc Sparky Rutherford,Richard C. Ryan,Kalei Santos,Shalie Sweetnam,Alfred M. Tanoai,Lucy Vecchio,Paul Wambach,Gary Thomas Williams
Additional Crew Dayne Ahuna,Jennifer Alexander,Murray Alford,Concepcion Alicino-Saucedo,H. Leah Amir,Scott W. Kekama Amona,Neil Andrea,Christian Antolin,Cua-Cua Apey,Kye Appleton,Andre Azevedo,Miguel A. Baez Jr.,Judy Bafaro,Ashley Barber,Cassandra Barbour,Jody Beaudin,Sabrina Beaufort-Langridge,Nathan Bell,Matias Beltramo,Trip Bennewitz,Mackenzie Benstead,Brian Bentley,Katie Benvenuto,Philipp Besa,Patrick Blood,Amanda Boisselle,Rino Bonavita,Ian Bonner,Josef Boreland,Joe Borland,Shirit Bradley,Sarah Brandt,Billy Brennan,Gregg Brilliant,Talia Buckberry,Lloyd Bunnak,Eli Burbage,Bridgett Buss,Jennifer Bydwell,Carol Sue Byron,Brandon Caban,Sam Carmichael,Brendan Cartarrasa,Christopher Chabriel,Sue Chipperton,Kimberly Choi,Bryan Chojnowski,Mai Suong Chu Thi,Amiee Clark,Thomas Conrad,Kyle Cooper,Eli Cusick,Nick D’Benedetto,Jason De Meo,Corey Deshon,Javier Diaz,Elyse Dinh,Brendan Donohue,Michael Steven Douglas,Mike Douglas,Kyle Drummer,Terry Edinger,Kathy Edwards,Ryan Eggers,Marie Elder,Robin Evans,Ted Evans,Kimo Fernie,Riley Flanagan,Cliff Fleming,Oscar J. Flores,Serena Rios Flores,Louis Francavilla IV,Haili Fransham,Jenny Fumarolo,Joshua Funk,Garrett Gagne,Leah Gallegos,Heather Gauntt,Traci Genders,Chelsea Genova,Sherri Goldman,Zoila Gomez,Lexington Graham,Sam Green,Patrick Guanzon,Emmanuel Guiterrez,Leena Gundapaneni,Glenn ‘Kiwi’ Hall,Shelby Harper,Cherie R. Harris,Katie Harris,Warren Harris,Mark Hawker,Nathan Hayashigawa,Andrew Haynes,Eric Hedayat,David Higgins,Matthew P. Higgins,Jesse Hiram,Michael W. Hoban,Kane Honea,Mark ‘Lurch’ Houstein,Lane Howson,Kylan Huacuja,Malia Hulleman,Harry Humphries,Kellie Ishisaki,Carey James,John Janocko,Jake Jashni,Colin Jewell,Yuanchen Jiang,Shogher Kahvedjian,Leah Kaina,Shannon Kaminaga,Dais Kasagawa,Philippa Kennedy,Angela Kenny,Kevin Kent,Elizabeth Kilby,Debbie Kim,Samantha C. Kirkeby,Katherine Klosterman,Desiree Nu’uhiwa Koanui,Allie Koppel,George Kotsopoulos,Richard Kroll,Bayan Laird,Ryan Lakestream,Roxann Langlois,Kevin LaRosa II,Kevin LaRosa,Danielle Liebowitz,Lindsay Little,Victoria Liu,Jacob Livermore,Mele K.T. Locey,Jake Lucas,Andria Mack,Ajax Maharlika,Kathryn Malm,Daniel F. Malone,David Mansley,Maggie Martin,Alex Martini,Veronica Maxwell,Jonathan Edward Mazzei,Ethan McLeod,Aaron McMullen,Nicholle McMurtrie,Olga Midlenko,Elisabeth Miller,Nick Mongoni Jr.,David Moore,Caleb Murphy,Nicole Nakamoto,Brooke Nemeth,Frédéric North,Bridget O’Boyle,Michael O’Connor,Kai Pantano,Emmanuel Pappas,David Paris,Sara Parra,Rebecca Parvin,David Pearsall,Alison Pickup,Jeff Pitman,Julianna Politsky,Michelle Poole,Justine Post,Candice Preddy,KB Pugliese,William Michael Redman,Kelly Redmond,Brian Reynolds,Glen Richard,Sebastian Devere Richardson,Margaret Richey,Deborah Ricketts,Sean Rigby,Aimee Robertson,Ryan Robertson,David M. Rodriguez,Alex Rosen,Carrie Roslan,Bruce A. Ross,Darrell Scanlon,Meagan Sevier,Bekki Shearer,Serena Shen,Torrance Shepherd,Suzanne Shugarman,Lauren Silver,Gary J. Sims,Eloise Singer,Curt Siverts,Ben Skorstad,Joseph Slomka,Javier Soto,William Christopher Stephens,Jeffrey D. Stevens,Jack Stratton-Smith,Daniel Tartre,Tabitha Tendolle,Eric W. Thompson,Stephen Todt,Allie Toman,Amber Joy Tomasello,Hoai Anh Tran,Erin Tribble,Sharon Tribolet,Hine Tuaeu,Maureen Uribe,Doug Uttecht,Phong Atwood Vo,Aaron Vranesevic,Greig Wagner,Ken Watanabe,David Wave,Brian Wensel,Sandra J. White,Greg Whitehead,Prudence Williams,Amy Denning Winfrey,Eric Witherly,Ryan Witherly,Chanida ‘Chompoo’ Yasiri,Sandra L. Yeary,Ted Yonenaka,Tyler John Young,Brett Young-Fountain,Garson Yu,Larry Zanoff,Elliott Branch Jr.,Michael W. Hoban,Kevin LaRosa II,Benjamin Mullin,Frédéric North,Alan D. Purwin,Sebastian Devere Richardson
Thanks Chris Bayz,Curtis McParland,Adam Nee,Long Pham,Bruno Tysh
Genres Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Companies Warner Bros., Legendary Entertainment, Tencent Pictures
Countries USA, China
Languages English, Vietnamese
ContentRating PG-13
ImDbRating 6.6
ImDbRatingVotes 317103
MetacriticRating 62
Keywords giant monster,giant spider,monster movie,monster versus monster,island