The survivors navigate the perils of the island and encounter stranded World War II pilot Hank Marlow and the native Iwi people, while Packard plans to take his revenge on Kong by salvaging weapons from a downed chopper. After successfully reaching the island via helicopters and dropping seismic charges to map the island, the expedition is brought down by the island's self-appointed guardian: the 100 foot ape known as Kong. Accompanying the scientists are a military escort headed by Colonel Preston Packard, ex-British SAS tracker James Conrad, and anti-war photographer Mason Weaver. government approves a joint expedition between Landsat and the scientific organization Monarch to the newly-charted Skull Island. In 1973, during the closing days of the Vietnam War, the U.S. The film was released to American theaters by Warner Bros. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian, John Ortiz, Terry Notary, and John C. Produced by Legendary, it is a reboot to the King Kong series and the second entry in the MonsterVerse.

Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American giant monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and written by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, and Derek Connolly from a story by John Gatins, with visual effects by Jeff White.

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