

They soon learn that Kong is not the only danger on the island and must find a way to rejoin each other and make it to their extraction point alive. Kong makes short work of the copters and the team finds themselves scattered about the dangerous island. Upon arriving on the mysterious island and starting their survey mission by using seismic charges, the team attract the attention of Kong who is not at all pleased with the intrusion on his island. His men are looking forward to going home and resuming their lives, but a dour Packard jumps at the chance for another mission over the uncertainty of the future. Packard is trying to find his place in the world as he and his helicopter combat team are dealing with the recent end of the Vietnam War. Jackson), and his team to accompany the mission. William also asks for a military escort and the government enlists Lt. William recruits a team which includes a former British officer named James Conrad (Tom Hiddleston), and Photographer Mason Weaver (Brie Larson), to assist his team lead by Houston Brooks (Corey Hawkins), in mapping the island. The film is set in 1973 when William Randa (John Goodman), informs the government that they have detected a previously unknown island and need to investigate it before the Soviets learn of it and beat them to whatever the island my hold.

Unlike Perter Jackson's retelling of the original Black and White film, "Kong: Skull Island" eschews the old for the new and in doing so breathes a much needed new life and vitality into the franchise.

The legendary King Kong returns in an all new adventure that gives the classic tale a much needed update and new setting.
