The world's favorite ape king is set to roar his way back onto the big screen in Kong: Skull Island. Brie Larson as Mason Weaver Brie Larson was a child actress in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but began an incredible tear of great films in 2012 and 2013. Skull Island was the mysterious island inhabited by strange species and dinosaurs. In 1933 Carl Denham shocked the world when he unveiled King Kong to a stunned crowd at the Alhambra Theatre. Skull Island is the name most often used to describe a fictional island that first appeared in the 1933 film King Kong and later appearing in its sequels, the two remakes, and any other King Kong-based media. Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 monster film which is a reboot of the King Kong franchise and the second film in the MonsterVerse. We all know that the fact that King Kong will be this big in Kong: Skull Island will allow him to fight Godzilla in Godzilla vs. Kong. Skull Island Hawk is a species of bird that is found on Skull Island.The animal is described in the book "The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island" (2005).Facts Edit. It is an official sequel and prequel to Strickland and DeVito's 2005 rewrite of the novelization of the original 1933 King Kong film authorized by the estate of Kong's creator Merian C. Cooper. Kong: King of Skull Island is a 160 page novel written by Brad Strickland and John Michlig and illustrated by Joe DeVito in 2005. King Kong is a giant ape Titan who first appeared in the 2017 Legendary Pictures film Kong: Skull Island.He is the largest incarnation of the character to appear in an American film. Film Review: Kong: Skull Island ... involving a giant spider that nicely nods to a famed deleted scene from the original King Kong.) In March 2017, to coincide with the release of Kong: Skull Island, Titan Books released a novelization of the film written by Tim Lebbon and a hardcover book The Art and Making of Kong: Skull Island by Simon Ward. Kong: Skull Island grossed $168 million in the United States and Canada and $398.6 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $566.6 million. But I cannot determine how big King Kong … The last of a race of huge ape-like Titans who reigned over Skull Island, Kong was born in the midst of a battle between his parents and a horde of vicious Skullcrawlers. In 2017, a new book featuring another origin story, written and illustrated by DeVito, was released, called King Kong of Skull Island. Made on a production budget of $185 million, with about $136 million more spent on global marketing costs, the film needed to make at least $450–500 million worldwide in order to break-even . Having re-read this novel recently I decided to track down Kong-King of Skull Island and read it … It is a reboot of the King Kong franchise, and serves as the second film in Legendary's MonsterVerse. The agile Skull Island Hawk is a handsome, bluish bird with a featherless head that can … BUT I later discovered that DeVito had based his work upon the original novelisation of King Kong by Delos W Lovelace, which first appeared in 1932, some time before the release of the movie. King Kong's cinematic history began in 1933, and the giant ape has been portrayed in many different movies over the years (some good, most pretty bad).Initially Kong is painted as the brute Godlike animal with allegiance to no other living creature, but gradually he's revealed to be the protector and lode-bearer of the island's eco-system.