Brian T

Beyond the obvious kowtowing to the China boxoffice, I'm curious to see if there's any historical logic behind how they shoehorned indistinguished mainland Chinese actress Tian Jing into this.

DJariya

It's 2 1/2 minutes of footage from a presumably 2-2 1/2 hour movie.

What type of footage would you be expecting from a King Kong movie that would make it "different" enough for you?

It's not like audiences are expecting a Terrence Malick interpretation of Kong.

Pointyskull

I was hoping it would be more "he's a 60-foot talking ape who solves crimes in Los Angeles, with the help of Charo and her goochie-goochie squad"...

E Unit

We need a trailer that's more political.

Solid Snake

fumanstan

Something different from the typical Kong origin story of a mysterious island, natives, and beasts?

james2025a laid out his reasoning pretty well, in my opinion

What, an asian person can't just be part of the cast?

Solid Snake

At the same time though... it is interesting. Maybe she is there to cater to the Chinese market, easy as it is to manipulate the heads of those who allow our films come in. I'm guessing that Goodman and some others to be involved w/ Monarch? If even in a hushed sense?

Giantrobo

Looks like a blast.

slop101

Good cast, but no-name director does not bode well.

Why So Blu?

Maybe the studio wanted someone relatively unknown like Gareth Edwards was when he directed Godzilla. Granted, Vogt doesn't come from low budget sci-fi movie. We'll see.

Josh-da-man

I'm not sure how this King Kong is going to fight Godzilla.

Even though this looks like biggest Kong we've seen yet, Godzilla ('14) probably still outweighs him by at least 30x.

Solid Snake

That's where being an Ape comes in. He's smarter and faster.

CharlieK

One thought is this takes place in the 70's and he's a young ape. The Godzilla he'll eventually fight is 'present day', 40 years later. He'll grow a lot bigger by then.

Or, what I'm kind of hoping for, is a smaller, intelligent, agile ape up against this lumbering, radioactive force of nature. The juxtaposition of the 2 could be cool. Something different than 2 huge monsters pushing each other into buildings over and over again.

Solid Snake

I think he's going to be smaller than G no matter what. And that's good.

Kong doesn't need an equal size for G. He's a fucking gorilla. That's an advantage to him at his current size alone.

Legendary has said that Kong was 100 feet. That's just a number they said. Whatever his final height is... I dunno. Our US G is 355 feet. So... I'm assuming he might "grow" or whatever. 100 feet is pretty fucking small. Doesn't match up much. Granted a Muto was much smaller than G but... it's Kong... you kind of want him to be close to height next to G. I'd say a 280 foot Kong would be as small as I could see it still being ok.

Also... I don't think he's 100 feet. Maybe I'm really shitty at guessing measurements but... he looks a good amount bigger than 100 feet.

Sonic

All Godzilla has to do is open his mouth and fry him like a marshmallow.

Game over.

csant

hell, yeah he looks taller then 100 feet. I love the trailer and looking forward to release...

E Unit

It took the entire movie to even get to that part on Godzilla. He likes to take his time to even get to that. Kind of like Optimus Prime and his killer mega-sword.

Solid Snake

Again though.... he's slow. Kong is smart and agile. The matchup is fine.

TomOpus

DC is in talks and the twist is having Wonder Woman protect Kong with her shield.

Seriously

islandclaws

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Now THAT is how you do a poster, homage or not.

Paul_SD

man, talk about a swipe.

Artman

Awesome, must have on my wall!!

GoldenJCJ

"The homage, the homage..."

Any doubt that this is "Apocalypse Kong" should disappear with that poster.

slop101

King Kurtz

Ky-Fi

No Mechani-Kong, no sale.