Line #47 Trivia/KongSkullIsland


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2	* ActingForTwo:
3	** Creator/TobyKebbell played both Jack Chapman and Kong (via [[SerkisFolk motion capture]] for the latter).
4	** Will Brittain portrays both young Hank Marlow and [[spoiler: his adult son]].
5	* AllStarCast: Creator/TomHiddleston, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/BrieLarson, Creator/JohnCReilly, Creator/JohnGoodman and Creator/TobyKebbell lead the charge in this movie.
6	* AwesomeDearBoy: [[https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/03/08/tom-hiddleston-samuel-l-jackson-and-brie-larson-reveal-why-th/21875867/ Both Tom Hiddleston and Samuel L. Jackson]] admitted their reasons for joining the movie were basically this (on a lesser note, Brie Larson accepted because her character was an ActionGirl instead of a DamselInDistress). Jackson even stated:
7	-->"When they said 'King Kong, we want you', I was like 'Awesome!'. Then I found out that I was the second choice and I still didn't care. I'll do it anyway. They had [[Creator/JKSimmons an Academy Award winner]] at first and he didn't want to be home away from home, away from his kids that long because we were gone forever in Hawaii, Australia, and Vietnam. So I was like 'My family didn't care, I'll go!'"
8	* CaliforniaDoubling: "Skull Island" in the movie is actually based on Vietnamese locales, with the rocky bay area surrounding the island being filmed at the famous Ha Long Bay, one of UNESCO's World Heritage sites.
9	* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub, James Conrad is voiced by the singer Creator/{{Gackt}}.
10	* ChannelHop: The movie was originally set to be distributed by Creator/{{Universal}}. Distribution ultimately moved to Creator/WarnerBrothers.
11	* CreatorBacklash: Creator/JordanVogtRoberts co-wrote and appeared in the ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' of his own movie, highlighting some ''legitimate'' flaws with the film, such as massive (in his own words) structural problems, lack of character arcs for most of the human cast and the fact that there are too many human characters to begin with. However, he still stood by the film and attacked the [[DearNegativeReader video made on the film]] by ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' shortly before ''Honest Trailers'' was released.
12	* DearNegativeReader: The director spent some time on Twitter attacking WebVideo/CinemaSins for their video on the film, calling them trolls and countering some specific sins. Rather notably, he had participated in the ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' video for the film before all this happened and was released shortly afterwards, where his own criticisms of the film were noted [[CreatorBacklash to be especially harsh]].
13	* ExecutiveMeddling: Part of the reason for the film going to Warner Bros. Legendary wanted the film to be a prelude to a potential crossover with ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'', but Universal (holders of the Kong rights, and Legendary's then-partner) refused to allow it, as they wanted nothing to do with ''Godzilla''[[note]]Coincidentally, Universal owns the US rights to the original ''Film/KingKongVsGodzilla'', and since 2016 has held the US licensing rights to several of Toho's ''Godzilla'' films due to Universal's acquisition of Classic Media[[/note]].
14	* FakeAmerican: English actor Creator/TobyKebbell as American soldier Jack Chapman.
15	* FollowTheLeader: The film's marketing emulates that of ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', teasing and showing as little of the titular monster as possible until the release date gets much closer. Justified due to being made by the same [[Creator/WarnerBros production]] [[Creator/LegendaryPictures companies]] and even being set in the same universe.
16	* MarketBasedTitle: According to the Japanese poster, it's "King Kong: Giant God of Skull Island". With bonus ShoutOut as "giant god" is in the ''kanji'' that can also be read as [[Anime/AttackOnTitan "kyojin".]]
17	* MissingTrailerScene: The Comic-Con trailer has scenes of a concealed Kong walking through a grove of trees, Slivko being with Packard and the other soldiers when they pay their respects to those killed by Kong, and Chapman looking down a hole. The second official trailer extends the scene of Chapman looking down the hole. Both trailers also have lines that aren't spoken in the final film:
18	-->It's a survey job. Just chopper them in and out. It'd be a joyride.
19	-->'''Packard:''' What you're looking at...is a monster of some bygone era.
20	-->'''Weaver:''' We don't belong here.
21	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Artist Joe [=DeVito=] launched a lawsuit against Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., claiming that he had approached Warner Bros. to make a prequel series to ''King Kong'' based on his 1992 ''Skull Island'' project, and that they had turned him down only to appropriate aspects of it for the film without his permission or compensating him.
22	* SleeperHit: Several outlets had expressed concerns that the movie would serve as a loss to its financiers (in spite of the movie's better-than-expected opening weekend) due to the [[Film/{{Logan}} substantial]] [[Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017 competition]] it had to face in its release window... And yet it managed to have substantially strong legs by ending its run with about $170M. Even if this was a bit shy of its production budget ($185M), the overseas numbers (particularly from China) ensured that the film was a success. It also did substantially better than ''Film/PowerRangers2017'', which many believed would have stepped on ''Kong''[='=]s legs at the box office (though it ended up being a minor flop instead).
23	* ThoseTwoActors:
24	** We have Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse alumni among the main cast: Creator/TomHiddleston, Creator/BrieLarson, Creator/JohnCReilly, Creator/SheaWhigham, and Creator/SamuelLJackson.
25	** Music/DrDre and Music/EazyE (or, specifically, Corey Hawkins and Jason Mitchell) [[Film/StraightOuttaCompton reunite]].
26	** From the [[Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes Planet of the Apes]] [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes reboot series]], we have Creator/TobyKebbell and Terry Notary.
27	* ThrowItIn: "It sounds like a bird, but it's a fuckin' ant!" This entire scene was an outtake in which John C. Reilly was trying to get the cast and crew to [[{{Corpsing}} laugh]] by throwing out the most bizarre, outlandish imaginary monster he could come up with. Jordan Vogt-Roberts decided that it fit in with Skull Island's [[DeathWorld bizarre ecology]] and kept it. In a later interview, Vogt-Roberts said he wanted to include the giant ant in a scene, but couldn't due to budget constraints.
28	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: See [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/{{Godzilla}} here]].
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