KONG: SKULL ISLAND Gets an Awesome APOCALYPSE NOW Style Movie Poster
Legendary Pictures has just released one of the best movie posters that I've seen so far this year! It's an IMAX poster for Kong: Skull Island, and it's done in the same style as Francis Ford Coppola's classic Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now. I love this poster, and I want one! I included the Apocalypse Now poster below so that you can compare the two.
We also have some new information regarding the film and its connection to Godzilla. According to CinemaBlend, one of the characters in Skull Island will tie the two monster movies together even though they take place 40 years apart.
It's explained that the story follows Tom Hiddleston's character, Conrad, who is a tracker and former British Special Air Service soldier hired to assist a crew on an expedition to Skull Island towards the end of the Vietnam War. The team that he's leading happens to be the same mysterious group that had known about Godzilla in that first movie. The group is known as the Monarch organization. Producer Alex Garcia explained to the site:
“It’s a landslide expedition, officially, but John Goodman, who plays the guy from Monarch, is sort of pulling the strings in the background and we come to realize obviously that they knew much more than they let on initially.”
Godzilla hasn't emerged yet in the modern world during the time that Skull Island is taking place, so don't expect him to show up in this movie. This is strictly a Kong movie, and we won't see the two characters come face-to-face until Godzilla vs. Kong, which isn't supposed to be released until 2020.
Tom Hiddleston stars in Skull Island along with Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, Toby Kebbell, Corey Hawkin,s and Jason Mitchell. It's set to hit theaters on March 10. Now... where can I buy that poster?