King Kong (Disney)

King Kong, or Disney's King Kong is a computer-animated musical monster adventure film by produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and Disney+. It is directed by Chris Willaims and Don Hall, co-directed by Byron Howard. It is a remake based on Merian C. Cooper's original 1933 film of the same name. Disney's King Kong is also the second animated adaption of 1933 classic that retells the story and longest full-length feature film.

Set in the Great Depression, an ambitious film director who coerces his film crew, a beautiful out of work actress and hired crew to embark an expedition to the mysterious Skull Island, an ancient uncharted landscape to film his latest picture. Upon arrival, Carl's leading lady, Ann Darrow becomes abducted by the island's natives and offered her up as a sacrifice to their deity, a legendary giant gorilla called as Kong.

Plot
The film opens up in New York City, in 1933, where young lost actress Ann Darrow lost her job after her theater was shut down due to bankruptcy and is now desperately looking for work.

Elsewhere, wildlife film director Carl Denham's latest picture is slammed by critics and being reprimanded by his producers Martin Bailey, Sal Maggio and Robert Mulligan. Hoping to make a comeback, Denham acquires a map to an uncharted mythic island where he plans to use a location for his next film, then pleads the board to fund his expedition, but they immediately refuse to fund him any more money for a wild goose chase. Refuse to give up, Carl and his assistant Preston hopped into his car decide to make preparations for the expedition tomorrow night. While though Carl has already signed a deal with Bradley Ryback to be in his next motion picture, Jasper tells him that they still need leading lady has dropped out of the project which forces the two to leave to find a new star in the next twenty-four hours. Unbeknownst to them, they are spied on by New York journalist and ace reporter, Jack Driscoll.

In the evening, desperate and hungry, Ann steals an apple from the fruit stand only to be spotted by both the shopkeeper and a policeman then chased through the city crowds, stumbling in from of Carl's car. Instantly seeing the Hollywood quality in her eyes, Carl pays for the apple and gives her a ride in his car. Ater buying her a meal in a diner, Denham proposes that she to star in his film and on the adventure of a lifetime. With Ann convinced, Carl tells her to meet them at their moving picture ship, the S.S. Venture tomorrow night around 8pm. Unbeknownst to them, they are spied on by journalist Jack Driscoll.

The next night, Ann accompanies Carl and Preston at the docks where the S.S. Venture is waiting to set sail. Ann is greeted by the ship's skipper Captain Engelhorn, who is nearly finished on loading the last of Carl's cargo and production equipment. After coming aboard and while being escorted to her cabin by Preston, Ann encounters a young boy named Theo who is the cabin boy and offered to help carry her luggage. Professor J.B. Hamilton and his college students Rachel and Chrstopher arrive with their scientific equipment, followed by Jack Driscoll who persuaded Engelhorn to aboard the ship to get an interview with Carl Denham. As Ann makes it to her cabin, she meets a feisty Latina second mate, Rayna Caruso who has taken a liking to Ann, knowing it's nice to have another woman on board. Jack finishes his interview with Carl but notices that the ship has already departed. To Ann's surprise, famous actor Bradley Ryback arrives

. On the next couple of days, as Ann settles in, she meets the rest of the crew; Briggs, Engelhorn's first mate, the ship's cook Lumpy, his sous-chef Kafi, Choy the janitor, the lookouts Shepard and Flynt, and Carl's film crew Gordan, the cameraman, Chester the screenwriter. She soon meets a man emerged from the shadows; a shady-yet infamous hunter Niles Serrone who Carl hired for protection. She then runs into Jack Driscoll

On that night, Jack interviews with Carl Denham along with Preston in the mess deck about the truth about where they're heading. In which Briggs, Rayne, O'Neil, Sheppard and Lumpy join in to confront Denham their true destination. Carl then comes clean and shows them along with Engelhorn the map he acquired in Singapore, that depicts the location of the mythical Skull Island, said to be the most undiscovered land in the center of the world. However, Briggs, Lumpy and O'Neil say otherwise about eight years while sailing along the Norwegian Bark, they came across a castaway who had been adrift for weeks. The castaway told them that his ship was sailing in the Indian Ocean until it was wrecked ashore on an island hidden in fog and spoke of a huge 100ft stone wall that build so long ago, know knew who built it but it was still strong today as it was centuries ago. When Jack asks why the wall was built, Lumpy said that before the castaway died from heart attack, he raved about a mythical giant supposedly living behind the wall, feared by the natives “is a solitary specimen, said to be neither beast nor man, but monstrous in nature.” and its name was "Kong". Denham was unfazed by the warning and for he doesn't believe in monster stories, only in b movies.

As the weeks pass, Jack and Ann are drawing more closer to each other. Engelhorn was thinking of turning back when the compass and their navigational equipment malfunctions and enters in thick veil of fog.

The next morning, Engelhorn and Denham accompany Ann, Jack, Ryback, Rayna, Preston, J.B., Christopher, Niles and other sailors in lifeboats to shore while Briggs takes charge of the ship. On shore they begin shooting for Ann's screaming scene, they all hear faint drums and chanting and venture forth through the rocky cavern forest coast to investigate the commotion while two sailors guard the boats. The later go into a forest of tropical, they discover a large native village infront of a huge stone wall and wooden gate that cuts off from the rest of the island. They observe on the natives that are preparing a strange ritual is taking place and they see a young black woman distressed by this. Engelhorn that woman is to be a human sacrifice. When Carl attempts to film and when the village Shaman was about to make his decision, the chieftain notices and goes to confront them. Hamiliton later translates the chief's word that he tells them to leave because they have interrupted their sacred ceremony. Carl asks Hamiliton to tell him that were just there to shoot a movie and ask of what the ritual is about. The Chief explain that the young woman is a gift for their island god, Kong. As they talk, the blind Shaman walks slowly joins the chieftain at his side and disturbingly points his finger shakenly towards not Rayne but Ann Darrow, as he has chosen her to be their gift for Kong, due to her golden blond hair. Agree with his decision, The chief then demands the crew to give them Ann in exchange for six of their women. The captive woman uses this an opportunity to escape and then the crew quickly race back to the lifeboats, but the Native do not pursuit.

On the ship, Rayne, Engelhorn and the crew tend to the woman, whose name is revealed to be Shenice who had been shipwreck on the island for seven weeks. Jack confesses his feelings toward Ann on deck and the two almost shared a kiss when Lumpy interrupts telling Jack that Engelhorn would like to talk to him. Ann interjects telling him it's alright that she'll be in her cabin in a short while. Under the full moon, Ann was by herself humming her feeling for Jack when she was quietly kidnapped by the natives, who drugged her unconscious then took her with them back to the wall for the ceremony. One hour later, Engelhorn talks with Carl and Jack about moving to the other side of the Island in which would be a safer idea away from the natives when they hear the drums from the village, lightened by the torches. Theo was wandering on deck, glancing at the full moon when he comes across a boney necklace on the floor then runs off to tell Engelhorn.

Still drugged, now barefooted and wearing sacrificial garments, Ann is being prepared by the Shaman before being dragged all the way to the top of the wall while the natives chant "Kong! Kong! Kong!".

Theo rushes in the captain's cabin to show Engelhorn him, Rayne, Briggs, Shenice, and Denham of the native necklace he found on deck, Shenice recognizes the necklace from one of the natives. Jack alerts the crew that Ann has disappeared and Engelhorn quickly sends his crew to the lifeboats with all the rifles and assault machine guns as the natives send Ann over the chasm, tied to as stick then lowered to a rock promontory which is the alter on the other side. While struggling to break free, the drums and chanting stop then Ann hears noises coming from the jungle as trees creaking, branches cracking, bushes rustling and sees something big through the trees.

As Driscoll, Denham, Engelhorn, Rayne, Niles and the crew arrive at shore, Ann screams in terror as the native's island god Kong emerges from the jungle, revealing to be a giant prehistoric male gorilla who seemed to be examining Ann by prods her face with his finger before he unties her. The crew made their way to the village, scaring the natives with warning shots. Kong rose on his hind legs then beats his chest who is now in the beast's grasp before he roared as causing her to scream. Ann's fear overcame her and faints in Kong's hand while Carl caught only a glimpse of Kong through the gates who glances at him before taking Ann and disappears into the jungle. Jack raced to the top of the wall

Later, Engelhorn prepares organizes a search party to get Ann Darrow back. which consists of Jack Briggs, Rayne, O'Neil, Jean-Pierre, Shepard, Rigby, Niles, Snyder, Richter, James and 30 other sailors while Engelhorn, Lumpy, Kafi and the rest of the crew remain at the village. Archimedes decides to volunteer to accompany in the search along with his students while Carl readied his crew and film equipment bring the film stock. Shenice volunteers to come along who feels that she's to blame for letting the Shaman chose Ann instead of her. Theo wants to come too but Engelhorn objects, telling him it's too dangerous out there then turns to Jack, promising him that they'll put a guard on the gate until he and the others return and then gives the party enough food, ammunition and supplies and he'll provide more via seaplane should they run out.

The party embarks their perilous journey into thick dark jungle

Main
An unemployed stage performer who was struggling for work when she recently loses her job when her theatre was bankrupt and has been broken and alone after being rejected by various job positions. Carl meets her at the city market when she tries take an orange at a fruit stand and then accepts his offer to his leading lady in his film he is directing. Further on the voyage she meets and falls in love with Jack Driscoll and forms a special bond with Kong. Ann Darrow is a beautiful and attractive Caucasian woman in her late 20s with a slender voluptuous yet athletic body, fair skin, long mid-back wavy Malibu blonde hair w/h a widow's peak, violet eyes, toned broad shoulders, buxom breasts, long legs, and wears pink lipstick. She is shown a kind, but shy calming and adventurous woman who initially as terrified by Kong but thought their journey through Skull Island, she learns to respects his dominance as a king, as well as sympathize his loneliness. A NYC journalist who falls in love with Ann. He becomes part of the voyage when followed Carl Denham on the Venture to get a story on Denham's mystery film. l. A famous, yet loose cannon film director who was on the verge of bankruptcy treated with derision by every studio in New York, despite having delivered to them some stunning natural wildlife footage. He and his devoted assistant, Preston, obsessively searched for a new leading actress to cast in his new picture, eventually crossing paths with Ann Darrow. Denham obtains a map to find Skull Island he got from a fisherman in Singapore and plans to shoot his picture there then show its existence to the world. An enormous prehistoric Gorilla known as a Megaprimatus Kong that resides on Skull Island and is feared and worshipped by the local natives as their island god. For many centuries Kong had ruled Skull Island in a life of solitary isolation. Over the course of film, despite his seemingly monstrous and frightening primal nature, throughout the journey with Ann Kong becomes for so long Standing over 30 feet tall, He resembles a male silverback western gorilla burly physique with black matted fur that covers the majority of his body except his face, chest, abs, hands and feet, has grey skin and redish brown eyes. His forearms are enormous, and eyes are brown. Kong either walks on bipedally or occasionally knuckle walks. The skipper of the merchant ship, the S.S. Venture. He's a very laidback and seasoned world-weary sea captain whose ship has been in his family for many generations. An old acquaintance of Carl Denham, Engelhorn and his trusty crew often ferried Denham on his globe-trotting moviemaking expeditions. A 10yr-old Cabin boy and the youngest crew member of the Venture. Theo was a street orphan that lost his parents in a subway train crash three years ago. He snuck aboard the Venture looking for food where he was taken under Engelhorn's wing to be his cabin boy. Theo meets Ann when she boards the Venture and befriends her while he helps carries her luggage. Theo is very helpful, clever A Latina member of the Venture crew and Second mate. She is a strong-minded swashbuckling woman who reluctantly befriends Ann when she came aboard. Rayne is a beautiful and attractive Latina woman with olive tan skin, long back length raven hair tied in a ponytail with a widow's peak and brown eyes. She is tough, sassy, cunning, sarcastic, snarky, quick-witted, helpful, resourceful, patient and loyal. Rayne acts both big sister and mother figure to Theo. A large rogue Alpha Vastatosaurus-Rex who has a life-long rivalry with Kong. This V-rex is much older and bigger than the rest of his kind. It's been battling Kong for dominance over the island.
 * 1) Ann Darrow (voiced by ???): The main human protagonist
 * 1) Jack Driscoll (voiced by ???): The deuteragonist and love interest
 * 1) Carl Denham (voiced by Seth McFarlane): The false antagonist turned Tritagonist
 * 1) King Kong (vocal by Paul Briggs): The second main protagonist
 * 1) *???: Kong's companion
 * 2) Captain Engelhorn (voiced by Jim Cummings): Supporting character
 * 1) Theo (voiced by): Supporting
 * 1) Rayne Caruso (voiced by Michelle Rodriguez): Supporting
 * 1) Preston (voiced by David Cross), Carl's honest assistant who questions Carl's ambitions.
 * 2) Vrex

Antagonists
An experienced and professional big-game hunter in live animal capture from Australia. He always travels the world with his teammates, Richter and Snyder. When Carl hired him for protection.
 * Niles Serrone (voiced by Steve Valentine): The main human antagonist
 * Burke, a hunter
 * Snyder, a skinny hunter
 * Sucho: The central antagonist. He is vicous and bloodthirst Spinosuchosaurus that was disturbed by the

Crew of the Venture
There were over 76 crew members who worked on the Venture.
 * Briggs (voiced by ???), The first mate abord the Venture. Briggs is unimpressed by Denham's dreams of glory
 * Shepard, lookout
 * Lumpy, the Venture's chef, barber.
 * Kafi Saluja, an Indian crew member who is also a chef aboard the Venture and a good friend of Lumpy.
 * Choy (voiced by James Sie), An Asian sailor and item storer of the Venture.
 * Travis Kuttner (voiced by Tyrese Gibson), a young technician/electrician.
 * Flynt (voiced by Jeff Bennett), lookout
 * Jean-Pierre LaRoche (voiced by Jonathan Roumie), chief engineer
 * Rigby (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key)
 * Edward O'Neil (voiced by Gideon Emery) the Helmsman who has great dislike for bugs
 * Other unnamed crew members

Passengers
A famous and successful, yet narcissistic romance/action actor who was hired to be the lead male star in Denham's film. A well-renowned biology professor in zoology and paleontology who was paid by Carl Denham to familiarize the indigenous fauna and wildlife of Skull Island.
 * Gordon McEwan, Carl's loyal Scottish cameraman.
 * Nigel Chapman, Carl's sound editor and recordist. He was killed by the pack of Venatoraptor after the Brontosaur/Ferrucutus stampede
 * Chester Lockwood, Carl's screenwriter.
 * Bradley Ryder (voiced by Rob Riggle)
 * Archimedes Hamilton (voiced by Jonathan Hyde):
 * Christopher "Chris" Caldwell, a college student and assistant to Professor Hamilton
 * Rachel Fisher, a college student of Professor Hamilton
 * Shenice (voiced by Tika Sumpter), an African American castaway who was shipwrecked on Skull Island over four weeks ago before the Venture. She was almost chosen to become a sacrificial offering for Kong before the Skull Islander's shaman chooses Ann instead. After Ann was kidnapped, Shenice feels that she's to blame for it and decides to join the search
 * Shenice (voiced by Tika Sumpter), an African American castaway who was shipwrecked on Skull Island over four weeks ago before the Venture. She was almost chosen to become a sacrificial offering for Kong before the Skull Islander's shaman chooses Ann instead. After Ann was kidnapped, Shenice feels that she's to blame for it and decides to join the search

Skull Islanders
The natives who inhabit Skull Island that live in a village outside the 100ft stone wall and near the coastal beach through the rocky caverns. Every once a month they perform a ritual to choose a victim as a human sacrifice and offer them to their god, Kong.
 * The Chieftain, the leader of the tribe.
 * Faraji. son of the chief who acts as a mediator for
 * The Shaman, the tribe's elder and blind priest who chooses promising women for their sacred sacrificial ritual and offer them to Kong.

Minors

 * Howard Short, Ann's mentor who got her into stage acting
 * Martin C. Bailey, a producer
 * Stephan Maggio, a film producer
 * Robert Mulligan, a film producer

Skull Island
A long-forgotten uncharted island which is situated somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean blanketed in a thick veil of fog that conceals itself from the outside world and affected with magnetite rocks on the coast that causes electromagnetic interference with radio and navigation. The island's coastal shores are covered with jagged rocks and ruins alike and a sandy beach at the shoreline. The first sight of Skull Island was native village and behind it was a massive 100-foot stone wall that cuts it off on the lower south-east from the rest of the island. The wall was built by a long-forgotten civilization over thousands of years ago and behind is a broken end of a stone bridge and across the chasm is an alter with two wooded columns on the other side. The Wall is only the threshold of Skull Island cause beyond it lies thick jungles, barren plains, grasslands and mountainous areas. It distinctive a gigantic mountain with skull-shaped rock formation. The tallest mountain

This version of Skull Island has the elements off the 2005 and 1933 incarnations.


 * The Village
 * Threshold
 * The Valley
 * Bug Pit

Creatures of Skull Island
Seen in the film Height and Length: 40-50ft long, 25ft at the hip. Height and Length: 50-77ft long, 27 feet tall at the hip
 * Megaprimitus Kong
 * Vastatosaurus Rex "V-rex", an evolved descendent of Tyrannosaurus rex that is the top apex predator of Skull Island, as well as natural enemy of Kong's species.
 * Brontosaurus
 * Ogreceratops, a large species of ceratopsid dinosaur that is an evolved descendent of the ancient Triceratops. Height and Length: 27-38ft, 15 at the hip.
 * Venatoraptor
 * Venatosaurus impavidus, a sub-species of Venatoraptor that are relatively smaller than their counterparts and live in valleys.
 * Ligocristus
 * Ferrucutus,
 * Pugiodorsus
 * Spinosuchosaurus, an evolved descendent of the Spinosaurus that is the second largest apex predator on Skull Island next to V-rex in its own environment. Also called "Swamp Dragons", these gigantic predatory dinosaurs had evolved of total terrestrial animals, that made incursions in waters for the fishing, for one half-aquatic design similar to the one of the crocodilians. As the Vastatosaurus, the Spinosuchosaurus are extremely territorial animals that lives in joined familiar groups, what it become its more dangerous, therefore when it ambush a prey or something invades its territory, all the adult members of the family go to the attack. One of its main competitors is Pirahnadon
 * Feather Devil, a seven-inch lizard indigenous to sk
 * Pteravenatus, a large Pteranodontid pterosaur
 * Thunderdome, an evolved descendent of Pachycephalosaurus
 * Cerahadrusaur, a hadrosaur
 * Foetodon
 * Atercurisaurus, a 26-37 feet long, 14ft tall species of stegosaurid dinosaur that is an evolved descendent of Stegosaurus. It's
 * Udusaurus
 * Pirahnadon
 * Hebeosaurus
 * Emperor Cobra, a prehistoric monstrous snake that's up to 60 feet long. These enormous serpents are closely related to the king cobra on mainland Asia, the emperor is significantly longer, more heavier body and can be founded in the island's highland areas and mountainous regions. They primarily live in caves to conceal themselves in the darkness ambush prey. They are black in color, with a hood having a crimson underside w/h yellow/black eye symbol on each side. They have yellowish orange underbellies and red markings running down the back to the tail. They have fiery red eyes w/h black slit pupils and two sharp fangs.
 * Wicked Weaver
 * Bug pit
 * Weta-rex
 * Hydruscimex
 * Carnictis
 * Arachno-claw
 * Decarnocimex
 * Megapede

Differences from the original and 2005 adaptions

 * This film will be set in the 21st century rather than the 1930s during the Grat Depression.
 * Jack Driscoll is reintroduced as NYC journalist
 * There is a plot twist

DVD Menu

 * Play Movie
 * Scene Selections
 * Opening Prologue
 * Theatre Shut Down
 * Denham's Map
 * Carl's Offer
 * The S.S. Venture
 * Setting Sail
 * Meeting the Crew
 * Filming Starts
 * The Warning
 * A Long Voyage
 * Skull Island
 * Going ashore
 * The Islanders
 * Jack's Confession
 * Kidnapped
 * The Sacrifice
 * Rescue Party
 * Raptor Attack
 * Theo's little Devil
 * A New World
 * The Footprint
 * Herd Stampede
 * Ann Befriends Kong
 * Splitting Up
 * Raging Rapids
 * The Swamp
 * Ann Comforts Kong
 * The Log Bridge
 * The Bug Pit
 * Carl Gives Up
 * Reunion
 * Korulodon Tamer
 * Niles Persuasion
 * Summoning Kong
 * Fight
 * Kong's Lair
 * Jack and Rayne
 * Lair Serpent
 * Back to the Village
 * Kong's Capture
 * 8th wonder of the World
 * Kong's Escape
 * Carl's Redemption
 * Finding Kong
 * The Empire State Building
 * Seaplane support
 * Ann's Speech
 * The Fall of Nile
 * "Twas Beauty Saved the Beast"
 * End Credits
 * The Fall of Nile
 * "Twas Beauty Saved the Beast"
 * End Credits

Trivia

 * Kong's design is influenced from the Gorillas from Tarzan, mainly based on Kerchak.
 * This film will be set in the 21st century rather than the year 1933 and shares the elements of the original and 2005 installments.
 * The Venture is a hybrid expedition vessel of a old fashioned Tramp Steamer and the Boschfontein that is 455ft in length and 38 feet in height. It has four lifeboats, 2 storage holds with cargo hatches, 2 masts w/h crow nests front and behind. There's also a 1930's style seaplane
 * Skull Island is not geologically unstable in this film.
 * The character designs are based on Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Overwatch.
 * The Skull Island rescue party consists of the Jack and those of the venture crew who volunteered. They alter become separated and split into two groups
 * Jack's Group: Briggs, Rayne, Carl Denham, Jasper, Shapard, O'Neil
 * Nile's group