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King Kong (2005) SYNOPSIS: Peter Jackson's expansive remake of the 1933 classic follows director Carl Denham (Jack Black) and his crew on a journey from New.

'We're gonna need a bigger helicopter.' Maybe nobody says these actual words in the new Kong: Skull Island trailer, but the two-and-a-half minute teaser for the upcoming creature feature is undeniably suffused with a Spielbergian sense of wonder, terror, and awesome scale. Doing for tropical islands what Jaws did for the ocean, Skull Island drops a boatload of famous faces — including seemingly half of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), and Nova Corpsman Rhomann Dey (John C. Reilly) all onboard — into the wilds of the titular archipelago, where they will be forced to fend off all sorts of oversized monsters. But is Skull Island a King Kong sequel, prequel, reboot, or remake?

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  • Soon after The Lord of the Rings trilogy garnered Peter Jackson a reputation as one of today’s biggest and most successful directors, with a string of award wins, he set out to remake his all-time favorite film: the incomparable King Kong (1933). Almost 72 years after that legendary stop-motion fantasy film touched audiences all over the world, Jackson’s 2005 remake stormed the box office.
  • King Kong is a 2005 epic monster adventure film co-written, produced, and directed by Peter Jackson.A second remake of the 1933 film of the same title, the film stars Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts, Jack Black, and Adrien Brody.
King Kong 2005

The last time the giant ape appeared on the big screen was in Peter Jackson's 2005 adventure King Kong, starring Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, and Jack Black. It will have been over 11 years since that film's release by the time Skull Island premieres in March 2017 — but that's not an unheard-of amount of time to pass between installments of a franchise. (Heck, 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road picked up where Beyond Thunderdome left off 30 years earlier.) But there's one problem with the idea of Skull Island being a sequel to King Kong: the fact that the titular monster died at the end of Jackson's film, felled from the top of the Empire State Building.

Could Skull Island be a prequel to that story, in which another ill-fated group of explorers encountered the beast and met a grisly end before the events of Jackson's film? Not likely, unless time travel is involved; while the 2005 film took place in the 1930s, the new version is set several decades later, in the 1970s. So, does Skull Island have anything in common with Jackson's version of the story? It may seem odd, considering how critically acclaimed and commercially successful King Kong was — winning three Oscars that year for its impressive technical achievements — but Skull Island will ignore the events of Jackson's reboot entirely, existing as the start of a new Kong series.

The only question that remains, then, is if Skull Island is itself a remake of a previous Kong film, or whether it's a brand-new reboot of the franchise. Including Jackson's take, there have been seven King Kong feature films preceding Skull Island, starting with the 1933 original (featuring a stop-motion Kong and iconic scream queen Fay Wray), and including the 1976 remake (featuring a climactic battle atop the World Trade Center instead of the Empire State Building and Jessica Lange in the first movie of her career).

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However, Skull Island isn't a remake of any of these films — not Son of Kong or King Kong Escapes or even King Kong Lives. It is an original take on the classic story that is meant to serve as the foundation of a new shared universe between the massive ape and another iconic giant monster: Godzilla. Skull Island will take place in the same cinematic universe as the 2014 reboot Godzilla; after its release next March, there will be a Godzilla sequel due out in 2019, followed by the franchise's climactic mash-up in 2020: Godzilla vs. Kong.

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Legendary, the studio behind the recent Godzilla and Kong reboots, announced these plans in October 2015, and teased that the franchise will eventually include 'other famous creatures' like 'King Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan.' Of course, all of these plans are likely banking on the financial success of Skull Island. It's fortunate, then, that the studio has assembled such an impressive cast, and that the new trailer is so promising, featuring an array of pulse-pounding action, eye-popping creature design… and comedic relief, courtesy of Reilly.

You'll be able to see Loki and Captain Marvel team up against King Kong when Skull Island hits theaters on March 10, 2017.

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Her instincts and empathy serve her well. Kong's eyes widen in curiosity, wonder and finally what may pass for delight. From then on, he thinks of himself as the girl's possessor and protector. She is like a tiny beautiful toy that he has been given for his very own, and before long, they are regarding the sunset together, both of them silenced by its majesty.

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The scene is crucial because it removes the element of creepiness in the gorilla/girl relationship in the two earlier 'Kongs' (1933 and 1976), creating a wordless bond that allows her to trust him. When Jack Driscoll climbs the mountain to rescue her, he finds her comfortably nestled in Kong's big palm. Ann and Kong in this movie will be threatened by dinosaurs, man-eating worms, giant bats, loathsome insects, spiders, machineguns and the Army Air Corps, and could fall to their death into chasms on Skull Island or from the Empire State Building. But Ann will be as safe as Kong can make her, and he will protect her even from her own species.

The movie more or less faithfully follows the outlines of the original film, but this fundamental adjustment in the relationship between the beauty and the beast gives it heart, a quality the earlier film was lacking. Yes, Kong in 1933 cares for his captive, but she doesn't care so much for him. Kong was always misunderstood, but in the 2005 film, there is someone who knows it.

As Kong ascends the skyscraper, Ann screams not because of the gorilla but because of the attacks on the gorilla by a society that assumes he must be destroyed. The movie makes the same kind of shift involving a giant gorilla that Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977) did when he replaced 1950s attacks on alien visitors with a very 1970s attempt to communicate with them (by 2005, Spielberg was back to attacking them, in 'War of the Worlds').

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'King Kong' is a magnificent entertainment. It is like the flowering of all the possibilities in the original classic film. Computers are used not merely to create special effects, but also to create style and beauty, to find a look for the film that fits its story. And the characters are not cardboard heroes or villains seen in stark outline, but quirky individuals with personalities.

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Consider the difference between Robert Armstrong (1933) and Jack Black (2005) as Carl Denham, the movie director who lands an unsuspecting crew on Skull Island. A Hollywood stereotype based on Cecil B. DeMille has been replaced by one who reminds us more of Orson Welles. And in the starring role of Ann Darrow, Naomi Watts expresses a range of emotion that Fay Wray, bless her heart, was never allowed in 1933. Never have damsels been in more distress, but Fay Wray mostly had to scream, while Watts looks into the gorilla's eyes and sees something beautiful there.