King Kong (Disney)

King Kong, or Disney's King Kong is an animated musical adventure film in the Disney Animated Canon by produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures and Disney+. It is directed by Mike Gabriel and Don Hall, co-directed by Byron Howard. It is an animated 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 which retells the classic story and is the longest animated Disney film in history next to Fantasia. It stars an ensemble cast that features the voice talents of TBA, Hayden Panettiere, Zac Efron, Seth MacFarlane, Steve Valentine, Corey Burton, Eiza González, Rupert Turnbull, Jim Cummings, Peter Mensah, Ricardo Chavira, Alan Tudyk, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Craig Robinson, TBA.

It tells the story a young beautiful struggling actress, Ann Darrow, who is recruited by ambitious film director, Carl Denham who coerces his cast and hired crew along with an notorious hunter to embark on a filmmaking expedition to the mythical Skull Island. Upon arrival, Ann Darrow becomes abducted by the island's natives and offered her up as a sacrifice to their beast deity, the legendary giant gorilla, Kong. Cub reporter Jack Driscoll joins the crew on a rescue mission to the heart of the island where encounter a vast array of surviving dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Ann, meanwhile spends a lot of time with Kong and begins to emphasize with him after the giant ape reveals his gentler side by protect her from the predators of the island and Ann makes friends with the friendly Dinosaurs on the island. When Jack and Rayna rescued Ann, Kong chases them back to the wall and ends up getting captured by the crew and is taken back to New York as an attraction until he makes a daring escapes to the streets.

It's runtime is 2hrs 34m.

Plot
In the year 1933 at the height of the Great Depression, the city of Manhattan New York is an unforgiving place with citizens going through rough times from being out of work and evicted out of their homes to living on the streets and shanty towns and waiting in the bread lines and soup kitchens. However, the only thing that gives them any amount of happiness are the movies. With only the price of a dime, people can go to the cinemas and forget their gloomy lives and dream of going on daring adventures on the big screen. One particular film viewed by the audience is the natural drama jungle adventure film starring famous actor and Hollywood heartthrob, Brad Maxson with posters of film with his face are plastered almost everywhere.

As for the vaudeville, even stage performers are experiencing their struggles to make a living where Ann Darrow had dreams of being famous stage actress only to discover that her theater was closed down the next day due to bankruptcy. Broke and alone, Ann wanders through the streets looking for work after little encouragement from her co-workers only to be rejected from one job position after another. At the same time, filmmaker Carl Denham leaves the screening of Brad's latest film to consult with the board of investors to fund his next project, but was warned that this would be his last chance to make a profitable film. Carl leaves to his car where his assistant Preston was waiting at the wheel and the two drive off. While driving through traffic, Carl also tells Preston that he has already closed a deal with Brad to be his next picture as the lead star. All they're missing is a leading lady, which prompts the two to find an out-of-work actress in the next twenty-four hours.

Desperate and hungry, Ann steals an apple from a fruit stand only to be spotted by the vendor and a policeman then chased through the city crowds, inadvertently stumbling in Carl's path after bumping in front of hid car. Instantly sees the Hollywood quality in her eyes, Carl comes to Ann's defense. After Preston pays off the vendor with a buck for the apple, the two give Ann a ride in Carl's car to place for something to eat. At a café, Denham buys Ann a meal and tells her that she's got beauty for his film and enthusiastically offers her an opportunity to escape the depression lifestyle and onto the adventure of a lifetime. Ann is apprehensive and unsure at first but after Carl and Preston enticing her in a song, she agrees and signs the contract with Denham. Unaware to them, they are spied on by young journalist and cub reporter outside, Jack Driscoll who is on a deadline to get a scoop on Denham's project to keep his job for the NY newspaper.

Carl, Preston and Ann pull up at the Hoboken docks the next night where their moving picture ship, a tramp steamer dubbed the S.S. Wanderer is weighing to set sail for the eight-week journey bound for the Pacific. Carl introduces Ann to the ship's skipper Captain Englehorn and his first mate Wayland Hayes. Stepping aboard and being escorted to her cabin by Preston, Ann meets the young cabin boy, Theo, who offered to help carry her luggage. Professor J.B. Hamilton and his assistant Christopher arrive with their scientific equipment, followed by Jack Driscoll who manages to persuade Englehorn to be on board a few minutes to get an interview with Carl Denham. Ann manages to get to her cabin with Theo and Preston's help, 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 for a change then helps her unpack for she and Rayna are roommates. Also to Ann's shocking surprise, famous actor Brad Maxwell was onboard as well, whom she has a crush on. As Jack nearly finishes his interview with Carl but with the last of Carl's production equipment on deck, the ship has already departs from the port. Carl chimes in that having a journalist around would be beneficial for his picture and be a big story for the papers when they return.

The Wanderer sails through the Atlantic Ocean Ann settles in while meeting the rest of the Wanderer's able crew; the ship's lovable cook Lumpy, his two friends; Indian sous chef Kafi and Choy the cargo supplier, Briggs the ship's third mate and helmsman, Flynt the lookout, LaRoche the French rigger and his entomophobia friend Frank O'Neil, and Duke the anchorman. She also meets Carl's production crew that includes his cameraman Gordan, his screenwriter Chester and his sound recordist Jared. Ann cross paths a shady man emerged from the shadows; a shady-yet infamous hunter Niles Serrone who Carl hired for protection and his tracking skills along with his associates Burke and Snyder. While rehearsing her scripts, Ann meets Jack Driscoll who he accidently bumps into heron deck while carrying his notes. Jack helps her up buts gets a "love aa first sight moment" before being called by Carl that they're ready for filming. In the afternoon, Carl then starts filming a scene on deck shooting Ann and Brad together while other crew member serve in the background. Upon finishing the scene Ann unfortunately soon discovers that Brad is not as charming in his films only cares for himself. However he did had praise from Jack, Theo, Rayna and Lumpy.

During the voyage at night, Jack interviews with Carl Denham along with Preston in the mess hall later on that night discussing the truth of their destination. In which Hayes, Rayna, Briggs and Lumpy join in to confront Denham of the matter. After maintaining the secrecy throughout the trip, Carl reveals them along with Englehorn the map that depicts the uncharted location of the mythical Skull Island, said to be the last undiscovered land in the world which he acquired from the skipper of a Norwegian bark in Singapore three year ago. Though Hayes, Lumpy and O'Neil counter Carl's claim said there was more. Several years ago they came across a castaway who had been drifting at sea for weeks. The castaway had told them that his crew was sailing in the center of the Pacific Ocean when they were shipwrecked on an island hidden in fog and spoke of a huge stone wall over a hundred feet tall that build so long ago, no one knew who built it but it was still strong today as it was centuries ago. Jack curiously asks of why the wall was built, Carl explained that the castaway was raving about a creature feared by the locals “said to be neither beast nor man, but monstrous in nature" that rules the island as their beast god named "Kong'. Before there was more to be said, the castaway died from a heart attack the next day. Reyna was the only one unfazed by the story and rumors for she doesn't believe in ghost and monster stories and claimed that the man was deluded by drinking saltwater. They were soon surprised by the appearance of Theo, who was walking by for a drink of water. Unbeknownst to them, Niles was out in the hallway eavesdropping in on the whole story then walks away in the shadows giving with a evil smirk.

Eight weeks at sea have passed from enjoying parties to helping Theo and Reyna and finishing few scenes with Brad, Jack and Ann's feelings for each other grows while tensions rise among the restless crew as the enters the Pacific Ocean. Englehorn is considering of changing course and return to New York when all of a sudden his compass, as well as the ship's radio and navigational equipment started malfunctioning and sails into a mysterious fog bank out of nowhere straight ahead. Everyone comes out see themselves unnerved and unsettled in the anonymous fog. Englehorn orders LaRoche to measure the depths by lead line. Carl then take the opportunity to film a scene with Ann who screams then they where all stunned from hearing a loud echoed roar coming from the fog. The ship barely dodges the encircling jagged rocks and the fog begins to clear at daybreak. The Carl's amazement and to Ann's, Jacks, Rayna's and everyone's shock and disbelief, they turn to see an Island in sight with a stone wall and a giant mountain in the vast distance with a rock formation shaped like a skull: Skull Island.

After dropping anchor, Denham and Englehorn organize a scouting party with, Ann, Jack, his film crew, Rayna, Preston, Hamilton, Christopher, Niles, Brad and 8 other sailors then Englehorn orders Hayes to take charge of the ship to oversees the repairs. Jack believes that it may not be a good idea to bring Ann to the island, but Carl dismisses him. Theo stays behind as well. They all rowed ashore on the beach where they begin filming a romance scene for Brad and Ann. The filming was interrupted when they all heard a sound of drumming nearby and move on to investigate while three sailors stay behind with the lifeboats. They discover a large native village in front of a huge stone wall with a large wooden gate that cuts off from the rest of the island just as Denham described and they witnessed the island natives performing a tribal ceremony and they see a young black woman distressed in garments then an elder walks up to bless her. When Carl tries to film the ritual, the Chieftain spots them and stops the ceremony. The chieftain and his warriors approaches the intruders and ask them to leave in native language. Though Englehorn's native tongue was a tad rusty, but Hamilton is able to understand native speech but the Chief motions them to leave at once. The Chieftain's son and daughter, Amaya and Faraji come from the crowd to act as mediators between both sides for they speak english much to the crew's surprise. The two explained to them that they are intruding their sacred ceremony and demands them to leave. Carl tells Hamilton to ask them of what the ritual is about. Faraji translates his fathers words that the young woman is a sacrificial offering for their god, Kong at the height of the full moon tonight for it has been their way of life for thousands of years. They warned that If Kong doesn't receive a sacrifice, he would invoke his wrath upon the islanders. The chieftain angerly silences his children and demanded the crew to leave once more when he notices the blind shaman joining them.

While he humbly apologizes for the disruption, the shaman shakenly points directly at Ann Darrow seemingly captivated by her beauty as the "golden haired one" seeing her in a golden aura in his point of view. To everyone's shock and surprise, the shaman selects her to be a gift for their deity with the Chieftain agreeing with his decision. The chief then demands the crew to give them Ann in exchange for six of their women. Denham and Jack declines, thus angering the chief, Faraji tried to reason with him with the fact that Ann is an outsider, but he ignores his son aside and rallies the tribe's warriors to take Ann by force until the Shaman prevents them. The crew then make their way back to the beach, with professor and Englehorn telling the natives that they'll return tomorrow to be more acquainted with a better solution. With the crew gone, the Chieftain tells his children to go home and assembles a small group of warriors to bring Ann back by nightfall.

Back on the ship at sunset, Jack comes by Ann who thanks him for defending her from the Natives. Just before he attempt to confesses his feelings to Ann and before he could do so, Lumpy comes up and tells him that he needs a hand with vegetables and Englehorn and Denham want a word with him later. Ann then gives Jack a kiss on the cheek and tells him that she'll be in her cabin later. Night falls with Ann humming to herself alone on deck when a stealth group of natives sneak aboard and quietly abducts Ann, pulling her over the side and drugging her unconscious to be carried away in their canoe back to shore. Hours later before midnight, Jack talks with Carl, Preston, Reyna, Hayes and Englehorn on the bridge of the situation with the Natives when suddenly they notice torches are lit throughout the village. Theo was on deck looking out to the village hearing the tribal drums when he spots a boney bracelet then runs off to the bridge. In the village, a dazed Ann regains consciousness and finds herself wearing sacrificial garments and barefooted is being prepared for the sacrifice by the islanders. Faraji and Amaya tried to reason their father reconsider but he having none of it before the natives forcibly drag Ann through the village all the way to the top of the wall while they all continuously chant "Kong! Kong! Kong!" and the Shaman awaits her to be blessed. Theo enters the bridge urgently and shows the bracelet to Englehorn, Jack, Rayna, Hayes and Denham, who all recognized it belonging to the natives, only to realize that Ann has been taken. Calling all hands on deck, the sailors start to load the lifeboats with weapons - rifles and machine guns and head for shore. Carl and his film crew also discreetly load their film gear onto another boat. The five lifeboats row through the crashing waves to the beach.

On top of the wall, the natives tie Ann's arms to a wooden framework and the Shaman comes to bless her before whispers to her ear in english that Ann is special for she will bring peace to Kong and that she'll be okay, much to her confusion. The natives beats the drums even louder to attract their god and the framework starts to tilt Ann gently over the chasm and lowered to a sacrificial alter with two great pillars on the other side and the framework returns. The drums immediately stop after the Chieftain, Faraji, Amaya, the shaman and the natives lineup at the top of the wall as they look on in silence. Ann struggles to free herself when she hears noises coming from the jungle; branches snapping, leaves rustling and Ann vaguely sees a massive figure through the trees in the distance. The oily smoke obscures her vision and for can do nothing but hear heavy footsteps approaching. The natives are in awestruck as their island god Kong, revealed to be a giant 30-foot gorilla emerges from the jungle before Ann who trembles helplessly in fear as the giant ape towers over her. Kong rose up on his hind legs then repeatedly beets his chest and lets out a mighty roar echoing the grotto causing Ann to scream and the natives cheer. Kong then examines Ann by gently stroking her face and hair with his finger. Jack, Hayes and Rayna and the crew arrive the village, scaring the natives by shooting multiple flares. Kong sees the flares and lets out another roar and pulls Ann loose, causing her to scream again that echoes everywhere for the crew to hear. Jack realizes she's behind the wall and starts climbing to the top followed by Rayna. Carl and Niles go to the gates and through them, they caught only a glimpse of Kong holding Ann. Ann's fear overcame her and faints unconscious in Kong's grasp who carries her away back to the jungle but pauses. Kong turns his head and glares back at the two men before disappearing with Ann into the night. Jack and Rayna raced to the top of the wall only to see Shaman looking down at the alter and also see that Ann was already gone.

The crew regroups at the gate where they dicuss of what they should do. Englehorn decides to assemble a search party to rescue Ann Darrow. Led by Jack, Hayes and Rayna, the group consists of Frank, Shepard, Rigby, Niles, Snyder, Burke, LaRoche, Brad and 30 other crewmen. On the other hand, Englehorn, Lumpy, Choy, Briggs, Kafi, Flynt, Duke and the rest of the crew will remain at the village and the ship. Hamilton also volunteers to join the search along with his assistant Christopher while Carl and his film crew volunteer as well while bringing the camera, tripod and all the film stock. Faraji comes out of hiding to warn them about the dangers beyond the walls. Theo wanted to join the search but Rayna wouldn't allow it, telling him it's too dangerous out there with Englehorn agree with her. While the group finishes stocking up weapons, ammunition, food and rope, Englehorn promises Jack that they'll keep guard on the gate until he and the others return and he will provide more supplies from the seaplane tomorrow. Upon opening the gates and lowering the draw bridge, the party embarks their journey to the jungles of Skull Island with Shaman still on the wall looking down.

As they march their way through the dense jungle, they begin to call out Ann Darrow when hear noises in the brush then were attacked by a Ceratosaurus only to be shot down by Niles, killing the dinosaur. Despite Jack's eagerness to press on, Hayes decides for them to rest within a nearby ruin for the night, they'll have better chances to look for Ann in the morning rather in the pitch black. Rayna assures Jack that Ann will be okay before getting ready for sleep. At the crack of dawn, O'Neil and Flynt open up the supply crate for breakfast, they discovered that Theo has stowed away inside, alerting the crew. Theo insists of helping them find Ann and with the Crew can no longer turn back, they had no choice but to let Theo tag along. Shortly after that, Theo, Jack and Rayna stumble Kong's massive tracks joing by the crew in disbelief, believing to be very beast that has taken Ann. Professor tells Christopher to get plaster to caste the footprint. They follow the footprints along broken trees and a cliffside view, the crews is shocked and discovers a vast array of Dinosaurs living on the Island from tree grazing Brachiosaurs to passing Gallimimus and flying Pterodactyls. They soon were approached an grazing Iguanodon before continuing their march into the Valley below. The Iguanodon speaks after they left "Strange humans. Mmm-hmm".

Meanwhile elsewhere, Ann wakes up only to find herself in Kong's palm while he still sleeps. Ann then slowly sneaks away to escape and runs off. She runs through the brush then passes a Maiasaura nesting ground then to open field with Termite mounds when she heard voices from the other side of a huge rock. Ann meets Rodney and Dumbar, a Stenonychosaurus and a Pachyrhinosaurus who scream in unison. Frightened at first but befriends them although they have never seen a human that looks like her before for they haven't seen them around this side of the island. Ann ask if they could take her there bu they never been near the wall before, as well as everyone else for they never bothered the villages and the other way around. Dumbar froze for he sees a raptor scout in the distance and Rodney tells Ann to hide in the log nearby. A Raptor pack shows up then surrounds Rodney and Dumbar then their alpha, Razer. One of the raptors Klaww sneaks around the perimeter but stops when he catches Ann's scent and finds her in the log. Alerting the pack, Ann makes haste with the Raptors give chase. Ann was then rescued by the arrival of Kong who fends off the pack then turns to Ann only to get mad for running off. Once he does, Ann struggles before finally settling down that Kong had saved her life and discovers the towering ape's true nature that he's no monster that she thought and two move on with Ann in Kong's grasp and the Rodney and Dumbar accompanying them along.

The crew made their way to the Valley where they came a cross a grazing herd comprised of Brontosaurs, Parasaurolophus, Corythosaurus and Edmontosaurus, and Stegosaurs. Carl briefly filmed the dinosaurs with Brad in the shot, but the herds were spooked by a pack of three Allosaurs and stampede towards the party. The crew manage to avoid getting trampled but five men were killed. The situation gets worse when the raptor pack joined the chase just in time and Klaww mauling Nigel off-screen allowing the crew to escape out of the valley. Raptors and Allosaurs are seen fighting over a dead Edmontosaur when suddenly Dharak the Tyrannosaurus rex emerges and overpowers both packs and takes the carcass with him only after to get information from one of the Raptors of Kong's whereabouts.

At the same time, Ann being carried by Kong as they are wandering through the jungle followed by Rodney and Dumbar while asking questions back and forth of where Ann came from. They later stop by a tree filled with tropical fruit for lunch which Kong sets Ann down and offers her fruit. Ann then ask them of what is life on the island like then Rodney explains despite the hazardous terrain, danger around every corner and lurking carnivores life on the Island is pretty simple, with the exception with the swamps. Ann asks why but Dumbar insist that she heeds their warning for what lurks there. Ann takes their word but she is still timid around Kong even after saving her life from the raptors. Rodney and Dumbar are very familiar with Kong very much and even though he's intimidating, he isn't so bad once she gets to know him. During a song, the music attracts other juvenile dinosaurs who were intrigued by Ann. To Ann's surprise, Kong was amused and calm by Ann's entertaining dance and sweet-talk and discovers the towering ape's true nature that he means no harm to her. then Dumbar slips and slides down the brush and foliage and stumbles on a Pachyrhinosaurus herd he's too familiar with as the leader Bulldust walks forward to confront him. Bulldust had warned Dumbar to leave the herd and never return but Dumbar nervously claimed that he was just passing through. Ann and Rodney catchup as the herd is in awe by Ann's appearance but ended by the presence of Kong, much to Bulldust chagrin.

Elsewhere the crew regroups at a clearing hillside, tending to the injured. Carl was distressed by the loss of Jared and with the assurance from Preston and Gordan that it wasn't his fault, Carl decided tp dedicate this film to Jared's memory. Upon seeing a river nearby Hays then tells the men that they need to start building rafts for the still need to catchup with Kong if the wished to find Ann but they all have don't have a clue of where Kong is taking her. While Prof Hamilton is looking on through his telescope, he spots a ruin in the far distance. At the same time, Ann and Kong rest by a large with Rodney and Dumbar who is depressed from earlier. Rodney explains to Ann that Dumbar used to be part of that herd until there was an incident involving a bloodthirsty Acrocanthosaurus attacking the herd which he failed to protect due to his cowardice which led him to be kicked out of the herd. After explaining his own backstory to Ann, Rodney and Dumbar founded each other and had became inseparable since. As Ann comforts Dumbar, she ask the two of where Kong lives. Rodney points out to the mountains in the vast distance where it lies a long lost temple where Kong resides. Carl Denham speculates that that mountain temple is in fact Kong's lair and states that where'd he live if was king of the island. Then Carl trademarks the name "King Kong"

Meanwhile back at the wall, despite being fifteen years since the Great War, Captain Englehorn preps the seaplane to send in supplies for the search party with Lumpy joining him as his co-pilot.

The following early morning, Earlier, Kong moves on leaving Rodney and Dumbar behind who are still asleep. A the same time, the The crew finish making the rafts then begin to travel up stream and as the travel much further to enjoy the scenery of any dinosaurs, they realize that they were being pursued by a pair of two T. rexes with Carl filming them. The situation worsens as the crew heads for the raging rapids leading to a fork straight ahead. A T-rexes jumps to them, causing Theo to be separated from the crew much to Rayna's Jack's and Hayes' shock as he takes the right stream while the continue to the left. The T-rexes immediately stop their chase as the rafts make their way toward the swamp nodding the "she" will be their problem now.

Meanwhile Ann spends a lot of time with Kong spend from tending to her minor injuries to Ann helping out and befriend a few dinosaurs along the way such as helping a Dimetrodon finding a sun bath, getting a baby triceratops out of the mud and returning a pterodactyl chick back to her nest. The song ends with Kong giving Ann a beautiful flower native to the island but notices shat she's a little dirty and finds a place to clean her.

The crew paddle their way through the misty swamp and notices that there aren't any dinosaurs around with Carl, Gordon, Preston and Brad looking evet. Rayna worries for Theo but Jack asures her that they'll find him too and hopefully Ann. As Shepard tries to drink his flask to come his nerves, Hayes takes it and throws it far where it hits a strange looking fin-like rock. However it was revealed to be a dinosaur sleeping while submerged with its nose sticking out but it awakens by smelling the liquor. The crew continue through the swamp when the rafts are swarmed by packs of Rhinesuchus. Jack, Rayna, Hayes, Carl and the others did their best to fend them off but they all retreat when the sense the presence of a predator nearby. They are confused for the movement the two rafts where hit by something huge beneath the water, which reveals to be a giant prehistoric eel and it attacks the two rafts, breaking them apart. This causes the raft's passengers to plummet in to the water. Jack, Rayna, Hayes, Niles and the other tried shooting it with rifles and machine guns to scare it away buy to devours six other crew members in the struggle, with Rigby amongst them. Brad struggles in the water pleading for help as it reveals that he can't swim. Jack swims a to him with Rayna's help but the eel swims towards. Carl tried to defend them but the eel ends up destroying the remaining rafts. Just when it could devour Jack, Brad and Rayna next when it was attacked by a large female Spinosaurus emerges from the swamp. The remaining survivors crew began to swim for the closet shore and runs to the jungle for safety while the Spinosaurus is occupied dealing with the eel then goes in for the kill. While eating it, the dinosaur soon turn it's attention to find the party for they have violated her territory.

The crew stops to rest for five minutes except for Brad who puts his foot down and gives up on the search much to Denham and the other's surprise. Convincing that Ann was dead, he decides to got back to the wall and go home not before Jack berates not only for being nothing like the charming hero he played on screen, but a both a fraud and a coward as well. Brad fires back at Jack and reminds him and the others that he's just an actor and that he never wanted to be apart of this for almost killed back there by the eel. And states th3 fact that they lost 8 crew members along the way including their friend Rigby. Although Jack agrees with the part, He won't give up to find Ann. Brad then advises Jack to not torture himself with false hope for he along with Rayna, Hayes, Denham and the others that they are all in over their heads. Rayna jokingly ask it he's done complaining for it's been getting on her nerves since they left. Brad angers her that Theo is dead as well, causing her to slap him and Jack punching him. Jack and Brad begin fighting each other but the fight was quickly broken up by Hayes and the others. As Brad leaves, Hayes asks if anyone else like to return as 8 other crew members join Brad. Niles decides to lead them all back with Snyder and Burke for he knows a short cut but promises that he'll catch up.

Elsewhere, Kong takes Ann to a waterfall and holds her under the waters to be showered, cleaning the mud off of her. However, he slipped his footing and drops her in to stream where goes over another water but survives as Kong is relieved. While Kong finds a way down, Ann swims for bit and she was alone for he a felt something and divers that it was a young Brontosaur named Andy swimming by the falls and asks Ann why is she on his back. She learns that he's not alone for he and his family which consists of her mother, father and grandparents are bathing by the falls and greet Ann. Kong soon joins in to check on Ann who was then greet by the Brontosaurs. Ann was worried that they would hate Kong like everyone else but the mother tells her that's silly and learns that not every dinosaur hates Kong. As is reminded by his own family, he quickly turns his attention else where. Ann ask what was wrong, the fathers states that Kong sense something not too far from here for then nods Ann to stay with the Brontosaur family until he returns. The young brontosaur wanted Ann to come along with to join his friends and his parents approve.

Niles leads Brad away from the surviving crew members to have a little chat then leaves to die for a Raptor nesting ground as his screams were echoed nad Niles leaves to rejoin the others. Meanwhile, the crew make their to they to a chasm and see a tunnel on the other side. They soon see a hug fallen tree bridging the deep ravine and start to cross it. Professor Hamilton stays behind until the others make sure it is safe. As they were half way across, Kong emerges from the tunnel and attempts to intimidate the. Awstrucked at Kong's appearance, Hamilton advise them to try not to provoke him with Jack, Rayna, Hayes, Carl and the men hold their ground on the log. Suddenly, a gunshot was fired that missed Kong, which enrages him and he furiously shake and rolls log left and right the the majority of the crew off the log into the chasm below while Jack, Rayna, Hayes, O'Neill, LaRoche, Gordon, Preston are holding on for dear life as Carl films the beast. Kong then throws the entire log into the chasm below, with only Jack, Rayna, Hayes, LaRoche, Frank, Denham, Chestor and Shepard survive the attack along with few crew members left while Preston and Gordon grab on to few vines and Hamilton fainted. Kong decides return through the tunnel when another shot stops him and turns to Nile, who was revealed to fired the first round earlier. After having and eye-to-eye with Kong, Niles maliciously warns him that he intends to kill him himself and will see him again very soon but Kong dismisses him with a grunt and then leaves.

Ann spends time with a Andy and his friends when they all heard a scream close by, Ann goes to see who it was and finds out it was Theo who is on top of a dead tree surrounded by Allosaurs.

Regaining consciousness, Jack, Rayna, Hayes, Denham, Chester and the survivors find themselves at the bottom of the ravine nut seperated on different sides. Carl begins to fret as he discovers his camera was destroyed in the fall along with the rest of the film stock. As Chestor tries to consult with his boss he was then attacked and killed by something in the darkness. To everyone's surprise, the find that the pit was infested with giant prehistoric Insects much to Frank's horror. The insects kill off the surviving sailors along with Frank, leaving only Jack, Hayes, Rayna, Carl, Shepard and LaRoche left to fend them off. Carl snapped and starts killing several insect in a fit of rage. They were surround on both sides when Niles, Snyder, Burke and few sailors from the wall came to rescue them, Carl's rage disappears and takes a seat in distraught. Hayes knows it's upstream and north-east to lead them to Kong's lair but Carl gives up. To Jack and Rayna's disbelief, Carl states there's no reason for him to go further for he has lost everything - his camera, his film, including Jared and Chestor. He tells them that he's heading back down stream and back to the Wanderer. Jack, Rayna and Hayes were left to continue their pursuit for Ann while Hayes orders LaRoche and Shepard to return with Carl to the village. With Jack separated from Hayes and Rayna, they decide to split up to find Ann and Theo.

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An enormous prehistoric Gorilla known as a Megaprimatus Kong that resides on Skull Island who is feared and worshipped as a god by the native. For many centuries Kong had ruled Skull Island in a life of solitary isolation, despite his profound dominance, he had been treated as if he is an outcast amongst the dinosaur population when he was an infant. At first, he is shown to be very frightening, imposing, and monstrous, until throughout the journey with Ann, Kong becomes softer and gently sympathetic with her by saving her life from the raptors, offering tropical fruit, giving her a relaxing bath at the waterfalls and a flower native to the island. 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, and has grey skin and reddish-brown eyes. His forearms are enormous. Kong either walks on bipedally or occasionally knuckle walks. 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 in front of his car when she tries take an apple at a fruit stand and then accepts his offer to his leading lady in his film he is directing. While on the voyage she meets and falls in love with Jack Driscoll and forms a special bond of friendship with Kong. At first she was terrified of the towering Ape but after spending much time with him, she soon learns that Kong is not a the monster as she made him out to be as saving her from the predators on the island. Ann Darrow is a beautiful and attractive young woman in her mid 20s with a slender yet athletic body, warmly fair skin, a heart long mid-back wavy golden blonde hair w/h a center parting, amethyst eyes, toned broad shoulders, medium breasts, long legs, and wears pink lipstick. Her face is heart shaped She wore a bluish grey long-sleeve cardigan sweater, dark blue high waist pleated working skirt, and grey suede shoes. She also wears a beige trench coat. When she was being offered as a sacrifice, she wore revealing sacrificial garments in her bare feet which were brown strapless bandeau bikini top, brown pleated short skirt that exposes her midriff. She also wore gold jewelry such as arm bands and anklets bands. She is shown a kind, gentle, but shy calming and adventurous woman who initially as terrified by Kong but on their journey through Skull Island, she learns that Kong is not the monster he's made out to be respects his dominance as a king, as well as sympathize his loneliness. A reluctant journalist and reporter who falls in love with Ann. He has been investigate Carl Denham and his new mystery film for the front page of the NY newspaper. However, he becomes part of the voyage unknowingly while getting an interview with Carl, before he could get off the ship. Trading the Voyage, Jack meets Ann and slowly falls in love with her. Jack has hazel blue eyes and dark brown hair A famous, yet arrogant film director who is a famous maker of moving pictures that 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. Denham obtains a map to find Skull Island he got from a skipper in Singapore three years prior and intends to film his next picture there then show its existence to the world. Hoping to make a comeback, He and his devoted assistant, Preston had hired take to the streets in search for a new actress to be in his leading lady, eventually crossing paths with Ann Darrow. After buying a good meal for her at a local diner, Carl had offered Ann to be his lead female star in his next picture to escape the depressed lifestyle and on the adventure of a lifetime. The skipper of the tramp steamer ship, the S.S. Wanderer. 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, Englehorn and his trusty crew often ferried Denham on his globe-trotting moviemaking expeditions. Engelhorn owns a seaplane that is propped on the Wanderer's deck to show the crew of his deeds for he was once an experienced pilot during WWI before he retired to the sea life as a skipper. After 15 years, he still knows how to fly a plane. 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 as the beginning of the Depression. He stowed away aboard the Wanderer looking for food where he was taken in under Englehorn's wing and been both his cabin boy and protege. Like any cabin boy, Theo helps around the ship from helping Lumpy gather ingredients to assisting Hayes with the ropes, aiding Rayna and Choy. Theo meets Ann when she boards the Venture and befriends her while he helps carries her luggage. Theo is very helpful, clever, brave and friendly with manners, He has brown eyes, shaved thin black hair. A Latin-American member of the Venture crew and Second mate. She is a strong-minded swashbuckling and sassy woman who befriends Ann when she came aboard for the Voyage. During at sea, Rayna develops a close friendship with Ann and Jack. Rayna 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 amber eyes. She is described to be a strong "bad-ass swashbuckler" known her fearlessness, sassy, cunning, quick-witted, helpful, resourceful, and loyal with a sarcastic sense of humor. Rayne acts both big sister and mother figure to Theo. It is shown that she has a strong disbelief in rumors around monster stories. Preston is Carl's confident and devoted assistant. A wisecracking Stenonychosaurus and a compassionate yet timid Pachyrhinosaurus who Ann meets/befriends on her first morning on the Island. Rodney is a small skinny Stenonychosaurus with teal skin, Dumbar is large Pachyrhinosaurus light orange and copper skin with brown stripe-like patern on his back and frill and has lighter tone on his underbelly. Dumbar once belonged to a heard which he live his life until an incident occurred. Because of his cowardice and past fear experience, Dumbar was immediately kicked out of the herd by Bulldust to spend rest of his days alone. Shortly after, he meets Rodney A large rogue Tyrannosaurus-Rex who has a life-long rivalry with Kong. This T-rex is much older and bigger than the rest of his kind. It's been battling Kong for dominance over the island for many years. Dharak has yellow eyes, dark forest green skin and a pale his underbelly is pale green. He has five dark reddish-brown stripe-like splotches on his
 * ??? as King Kong: The titular protagonist.
 * Hayden Panettiere as Ann Darrow: The main human protagonist
 * Zac Efron as Jack Driscoll: The deuteragonist and love interest of Ann.
 * Shawn Mendas as his singing voice.
 * Seth McFarlane as Carl Denham: The false antagonist turned one of the five tritagonists (alongside Reyna, Theo and Rodney & Dumbar)
 * Corey Burton as Captain Englehorn: Supporting character
 * Rupert Turnbull as Theo: One of the five tritagonists
 * Zoe Saldaña as Rayna Caruso: Major supporting character and one of the five tritagonists.
 * David Cross as Preston: Supporting character
 * Utkarsh Ambudkar and Craig Robinson as Rodney & Dumbar respectively: Main supporting characters, comic reliefs.
 * Joe Manganiello as Dharak: The anti-hero

Antagonists
An experienced and professional big-game hunter in live animal capture hails from Australia. He always travels the world with his teammates, Burke and Snyder. When Carl hired him for protection, he knew this would lead to the rumors of Skull Island coming true. Through the film it revealed that Niles is in fact a poacher who hunts rare animals for profit and planned to kill Kong thus making him a legend. Niles is an extremely ruthless, vicious and a sociopathic man who will go at any lengths to achieve his goal, even if it means by taking any live or anyone who gets in his way. He is also shown to be deceitfully manipulative as he was able to convince Carl Denham into capturing Kong alive. Snyder a skinny while Burke is tall and muscular She is vicious bloodthirsty Spinosaurus that was disturbed by the crew while they were making their way through her territory in the swamps. She is the second most feared predator in the island Razer is an alpha Velociraptor who leads a deadly gang of raptors
 * Steve Valentine as Niles Serrone: The main antagonist.
 * TBA and TBA as Burke and Snyder, two of the three secondary antagonists a hunter
 * TBA as Synda: The secondary antagonist.
 * Joseph Izzo as Razer: A tertiary antagonist.
 * The Raptors: Supporting neutral antagonists
 * TBA as Zucho
 * Alicyn Packard as Vanity, the sole female member of the pack
 * TBA as Klaww

Crew of the Wanderer

 * Peter Mensah as Wayland Hayes: The no-nonsense first-mate aboard the Wanderer. Hayes is unimpressed by Denham's dreams of glory.
 * Jim Cummings as Lumpy, the Wanderer's lovable cook. He speaks in a thick cockney accent
 * TBA as Kafi Saluja, an Indian crew member who is also a steward chef aboard the Wanderer and a good friend of Lumpy.
 * James Sie as Choy, an Asian sailor who is item store of the Wanderer and Lumpy's best friend.
 * Jeff Bennett as Flynt, a cantankerous Rigger and Lookout.
 * Jonathan Roumie as LaRoche, a French Rigger.
 * Gideon Emery as Briggs, the ships third mate and helmsman.
 * Alan Tudyk as Frank O'Neil, the deckhand who has great dislike for bugs
 * Tudyk also voices Martin C. Bailey, a producer
 * TBA s Rigby, a sailor who is friends with LaRoche
 * TBA as Shepard.
 * Paul Briggs as Duke Helstrum, the non-talkative but big softy anchorman. He towers his fellow crew members
 * Other unnamed crew members.

Passengers
A famous and successful, yet narcissistic romance/action movie star who was hired to be the lead male star in Denham's film. Ann had a small crush on him however, she learns that he isn't charming as he appeared to be in his film, but rather arrogant and egotistical. 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.
 * Brad Maxwell (voiced by Ricardo Chavira)
 * Gordon McEwan, Carl's loyal Scottish cameraman.
 * Jared Chapman, the sound editor and recordist of Carl's crew. He was killed by the pack of raptors after the Dinosaur stampede
 * Chester Lockwood, the screenwriter.
 * J.B. Hamilton (voiced by Jonathan Hyde):
 * Christopher "Chris" Caldwell, a college student and assistant to Professor Hamilton

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. Once every full moon, they perform a ritual where a woman is chosen as a human sacrifice to their god, Kong.
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as The Chieftain, the tribal leader of the Skull Island natives.
 * TBA as Faraji. son of the chief who acts as a mediator for both sides
 * John Kani as The Shaman, the tribe's blind yet wise elder who chooses promising women for their sacred sacrificial ritual and offer them to Kong.

The Dinosaurs of Skull Island

 * TBA as Soras, a giant elderly Pteranodon who is the caretaker figure of Kong. She has been watching over Kong after the death of his parents many years ago.
 * TBA as Earl, a solemn and pessimistic Termito'Saurus who has a craving interest of termites.
 * TBA as Cecil,
 * TBA as Bulldust, a bull Pachyrhinosaurus who leads a Pachyrhinosaurus herd.
 * TBA and TBA as a paired Baryonyx
 * TBA as a young Brontosaur
 * TBA as a young Parasaur
 * TBA as a young Triceretops
 * TBA as a mother Maiasaura

Minor characters

 * TBA as Howard Short, Ann's mentor who got her into stage acting
 * TBA as Loretta, A vaudevillian actress and co-work to Ann
 * Jonathan Pryce as Cyril Blakewood, a film producer
 * Stephan Lang as Stephan Maggio, a film producer
 * Stephen Root as Robert Kenswell, a film producer

Skull Island
A large uncharted yet long-forgotten island which is isolated somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean blanketed in a thick veil of fog that conceals itself from the rest of the 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 a rocky/sandy peninsula. which had the 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, waterfalls and mountainous areas.

It has distinctive a gigantic skull-shaped rock formation on one of the mountains. The northern side of the island is where Kong's lair resides on the tallest mountain that is the ruins of a mountain temple.

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


 * The Village
 * The Stone Wall
 * Threshold
 * The Valley
 * Unknown Orchird
 * the Clearings
 * The Swamps
 * Bug Pit
 * Kong's Lair: Located on the northern side of the island on the tallest mountain is where Kong currently resides, connected to the ground by long ruined eroded staircase
 * Kong's Lair: Located on the northern side of the island on the tallest mountain is where Kong currently resides, connected to the ground by long ruined eroded staircase

Mammals

 * Kong

Dinosaurs

 * Tyrannosaurus-Rex
 * Raptors
 * Triceratops
 * Stegosaurus
 * Parasaurolophus
 * Brontosaurus
 * Gallimimus
 * Stenonychosaurus
 * Pachyrhinosaurus
 * Brachiosaurus
 * Spinosaurus
 * Allosaurus
 * Ceratosaurus
 * Ankylosaurus
 * Edmontosaurus
 * Lambeosaurus
 * Corythosaurus
 * Pachycephalosaurus
 * Diplodocus
 * Oviraptor
 * Iguanodon
 * Therizinosaurus
 * Nasutoceratops
 * Deinocheirus
 * Styracosaurus
 * Maiasaura
 * Compsognathus
 * Acrocanthosaurus (mentioned only)

Pterosaurs

 * Pterodactyl
 * Pteranodon
 * Dimorphodon
 * Anurognathus
 * Quetzalcoatlus

Synapsids

 * Dimetrodon

Reptiles

 * Titanoboa
 * Feather Devil, a seven-inch lizard indigenous to skull island

Amphibians

 * Rhinesuchus

Fish

 * Giant Prehistoric Eel

Insects

 * Wicked Weaver
 * Bug pit
 * Weta-rex
 * Hydruscimex
 * Carnictis
 * Arachno-claw
 * Decarnocimex
 * Megapede

Differences between the Disney and both the original version

 * Skull Island is not unstable and is much bigger
 * Jack Driscoll is reintroduced as NYC journalist.
 * Like the 1976 film Ann is dresses in tribal garments for the sacrificial ceremony.
 * The Dinosaurs are capable of speech
 * The crew of the SS Wanderer had over 80 crew members with Englehorn, Hayes, Rayna, Theo, Lumpy, Choy, Briggs, Flynt as the primary members
 * The Disney adaption has a wide verity of new colorful characters human and dinosaur alike.
 * There is a plot twist: Unlike the original 1933 film, Kong does not die. This had been scripted for the sake of a more family friendly ending.

Development
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Animation
The film visual styles have similar aspects to that of Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, The Princess and the Frog, and Frozen. However, is based on the aspects of late artist, Bernie Wrightson. For the human characters.

The Dinosaur's style is based on the Land Before Time though visual styles were based upon comic book artists Frank Cho, Ricardo Delgado and commercial artist Matt Frank with the animated likeness of the Dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park franchise.

Deep Canvas
The jungles of Skull Island are inspired by comic book Bernie Wrightston

Music
Performed by: Various Voices Characters: New York Citizens, Jack Driscoll and Carl Denham Description: A song sung by NY citizen, Carl and Jack about how miserable things are during the Great Depression with the only thing that gives them amount of joy are the movies. Character: Ann Darrow



Scene Selection

 * 1) Opening Title/"???"
 * 2) Theatre Shut Down/"Queen of Vaudeville"
 * 3) Jack's Deadline
 * 4) A Star is Found/"???"
 * 5) S.S. Wanderer
 * 6) Sailing at Sea
 * 7) Ann and Brad Scene
 * 8) The Map and Legend
 * 9) Into the Fog
 * 10) Skull Island
 * 11) Native Ceremony
 * 12) Jack's Confession
 * 13) Kidnapped
 * 14) The Sacrifice
 * 15) Rescue Party
 * 16) Ceratosaur Attack
 * 17) Morning Surprises
 * 18) A New World
 * 19) Morning New Friends
 * 20) Raptors
 * 21) Valley Stampede
 * 22) Ann and Kong Bonding
 * 23) "King Kong"
 * 24) Rapids Chase
 * 25) The Swamp
 * 26) Splitting Up
 * 27) Waterfall Bathing/Theo joins
 * 28) The Log Bridge
 * 29) The Bug Pit
 * 30) Carl Calls It Quits
 * 31) T-rex Pursuit
 * 32) Reunion
 * 33) To the lake
 * 34) Niles Persuasion
 * 35) Summoning Kong
 * 36) Kong vs Synda
 * 37) Kong's Lair
 * 38) Jack and Rayna
 * 39) Titanoboa
 * 40) Back to the Village
 * 41) Captured
 * 42) 8th Wonder of the World
 * 43) Carl's Plan of Redemption
 * 44) Kong at the Zoo
 * 45) The Empire State Building
 * 46) Dogfight Rescue
 * 47) Ann's Speech
 * 48) The Fall of Niles
 * 49) Returning to Skull Island/"T'was Beauty Saved the Beast"
 * 50) End Credits
 * 1) Returning to Skull Island/"T'was Beauty Saved the Beast"
 * 2) End Credits


 * Extended scenes**

Trivia

 * Kong's design is heavily modeled after Kerchak from Disney's Tarzan 1998.
 * Unlike the original the dinosaurs of Skull Island will be capable of speech
 * Niles is a combination of Clayton from Tarzan, Gaston and Percival C McLeash.
 * This film will be set in the 21st century rather than the year 1933 and shares the elements of the original and 2005 films.
 * The theme of this film is fearing things that are misunderstood
 * The Wanderer is a hybrid expedition vessel of a old fashioned Tramp Steamer and the Boschfontein that is 255ft in length and 38 feet in height. It has four lifeboats, 4 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 ???.
 * Rodney & Dumbar are inspired by many famous Disney character duos such as Timon and Pumbaa, Tip and Dash, Terk and Tantor.
 * 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, Hayes, Jasper, Shapard, O'Neil
 * Nile's group: Brad
 * Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike make cameo appearance as five young dinosaurs who Ann encounters during her journey with Kong. Although they are apart of the Land Before Time franchise owned by Universal Studios.