Kong: Skull Island has started to build a big buzz, thanks to a wonderfully ominous trailer teasing a blockbuster horror/adventure experience – one that will officially link King Kong to the rebooted Godzilla movie franchise.
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Now that the King Kong reboot has fans’ attention, details from the set of the film are coming to light, revealing more and more intriguing details. The latest reveal concerns the creatures we’ll see in Skull Island, and what inspired the filmmakers to create them.
According to JoBlo‘s report from the Kong: Skull Island set, it was, in fact, anime legend Hayao Miyazaki who inspired the creatures we’ll see in Skull Island. According to producer Alex Garcia:
“The creatures are a big thing. Jurassic World obviously owns the dinosaur thing right now. If Kong is the God of this island, we wanted each of the creatures to feel like they’re individual gods of their own domain. Miyazaki and Princess Mononoke was actually a big reference in the way that the spirit creatures sort of have their own domains and fit within that. A big thing was 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. Where if you look at this giant spider or water buffalo, you stare at, a part of you says, ‘that’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen’ and ‘oh my god, that’s going to kill me right now, I need to run for my life!’”
Peter Jackson’s King Kong movie (2005) offered the visual wonder of giant creatures onscreen – though those creatures (sans the dinosaurs) were just enlarged versions of real animals and insects. It was, in some cases, horrifying, but it sounds like Skull Island will offer viewers something a bit more fantastical in terms of creature design – which makes sense, given that this all will eventually lead to creatures like Godzilla and the Mutos being in the mix.
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Kong: Skull Island will be in theaters on March 10, 2017.
