King Kong (Disney)

King Kong, or Disney's King Kong is a 2D animated musical monster 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 Chris Willaims 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 that retells the story and longest full-length feature film. It features the voice talents of TBA, Haston Sage, Grant Gustin, Seth MacFarlane, Steve Valentine, Corey Burton, Eiza González, unknown child actor, Jim Cummings, Peter Mensah, Ricardo Chavira, David Cross, Alan Tudyk, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Craig Robinson, TBA.

It follows a young actress, who lost her job during the great depression when she was by 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, the legendary giant gorilla, Kong.

Plot
The film opens up in New York City 1933, where young lost actress Ann Darrow lost her job after her theater was shut down due to the Great Depression 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. Denham acquires a map to an uncharted island where he plans to use a location for his next film, he manages to convince the board to precure funding for his expedition, but they warned that this would be his last chance, or he's finished. Carl returned to his car where his assistant Preston was at the wheel and drove off. Although Carl has already signed a deal with Brad Ryder to be his lead star, Jasper informs him that they still need a leading lady, which prompts the two to find an actress in the next twenty-four hours before they leave tomorrow night. Unaware to them, they are followed by New York journalist and ace reporter, Jack Driscoll.

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 cafe, Denham hires Ann 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. Wanderer tomorrow night around 8pm.

The next night, Ann accompanies Carl and Preston to the docks where the S.S. Wanderer is loading the rest of Denham's cargo. 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 stepping 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. To Ann's surprise, famous actor Brad Ryder was onboard, whom she has a crush on. As Jack finishes his interview with Carl but the ship has already departed. Carl chimes in on him that having a journalist around would be beneficial for his picture and be a big story for the papers when they return.

On the next couple of days, Ann settles in while she meets the rest of the crew; Wayland Hayes, Engelhorn's first mate, the ship's lovable cook Lumpy, his good friends the sous-chef Kafi and Choy the item storer, the lookout Flynt, and Carl's film crew Gordan the cameraman, Chester the screenwriter and their sound recordist Nigel. She soon meets a man emerged from the shadows; a shady-yet infamous hunter Niles Serrone who Carl hired for protection. She then bumps into Jack Driscoll. Carl then commencing his filming scenes on deck

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 from Norwegian skipper in Singapore over year ago. That map 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 they came across a castaway who had been adrift for weeks. The castaway told them that his crew was sailing in the Indian Ocean until they were shipwrecked 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 further said that before the castaway died from heart attack, he raved about a mythical giant creature feared by the natives “said to be neither beast nor man, but monstrous in nature.” and its name was "Kong". Denham was unfazed by the warning for monsters don't exist, only in B-movies. Unbeknownst to them, Niles was out in the hallway listened in on the whole thing.

As six weeks pass by, Jack and Ann are drawing more closer to each other. At one night, tensions were rising amongst the crew members, Englehorn was considering of changing course when his compass and their navigational equipment malfunctions and the entire crew see themselves unnerved as the ship sails into a thick fog bank. and barely crash into jagged rocks. At the stroke of dawn, the fog fades, to Carl's amazement, they have found their destination: Skull Island, much to Anns, Jacks and the crew's disbelief.

After dropping anchor at the island shore, Denham orders his film crew to get the film equipment on a lifeboat and tells and Englehorn and Ann to come along. Jack inquired that it's not a good idea to bring Ann to the island, but Carl dismisses him. Carl, Ann, his film crew along with Jack, Rayna, Preston, J.B., Christopher, Niles, and 8 other sailors in row to shore while Briggs takes charge of the ship.

On shore as they begin shooting for Ann's screaming scene, they all hear faint drumming and venture forth through the rocky cavern to a forest coast to investigate the sound while two sailors stay behind to guard the boats. They then stumble upon a large native village in front of a huge stone wall and wooden gate that cuts off from the rest of the island. They witnessed the natives performing a tribal ritual and they see a young black woman distressed by this. Englehorn tells that woman is to be a human sacrifice. When Carl attempts to film the village Shaman was about to make his decision, the chieftain suddenly spots the crew and approaches them. Though Englehorn's native tongue was rusty, but Hamiliton is able to understand native speech. The Chieftain's son and daughter, Amara and Faraji come from the crowd to act as mediators between both sides. To the crew's surprise, the two speak English to leave because they have interrupted their sacred ceremony. Carl tells Hamiliton to ask the chieftain of what the ritual is about. The Chief explains that the young woman is a gift for their island god, Kong. Amara corrects him for it is their way of life for centuries. The blind Shaman walks slowly joins the chieftain at his right side and disturbingly points his finger directly at Ann Darrow, as he has chosen her to be a 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. Denham declines, thus angering the chief, Faraji tried to reason with him that the gold haired woman is an outsider and has nothing to do with the ceremony, but he casts his son aside in a fit of rage and rallies the tribe to try and take Ann by force until the Shaman halts him and whispers in his ear. The crew then make their way back to the beach, with J.B. assuring that they'll return tomorrow to be better acquainted.

Back on the Venture, Jack confesses his feelings toward Ann on deck and the two almost shared a kiss when Lumpy interrupts telling Jack that Englehorn wishes 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 feelings for Jack when a stealth group of natives, who kidnapped Ann and drugged her unconscious, takes her back to the wall for the ceremony. 2 hours later before midnight, 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. In the village, Ann, still drugged, now barefooted and wearing sacrificial garments 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!".

At the same time, Theo was wandering on deck, hearing the drums when he comes across a boney necklace then runs off then shows it to Englehorn, Jack, Rayna, Hayes, and Denham, who all recognized it belonged to the natives. Englehorn alerts the crew that Ann has been taken and the crew to gather the rifles and machine guns then make their way to the lifeboats. On top of the wall, the natives' tie Ann's arms to a stick then sends her over the chasm and lowered to a rock promontory on the other side which is the sacrificial alter. While struggling to break free, the drums and chanting immediately stop as Ann hears noises coming from the jungle as trees creaking, branches cracking, leaves rustling and sees something big through the trees coming closer.

As Driscoll, Denham, Engelhorn, Rayna, 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 shooting flares. Kong rose on his hind legs and beats his chest before letting out a loud mighty roar. Ann's fear overcame her and faints in Kong's hand while Carl (and Niles) 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 only to see that Ann was already gone

Later, Engelhorn prepares organizes a search party to rescue Ann Darrow. Led by Jack, Briggs and Rayna, the party consists of 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 brings his crew and film equipment bring the film stock. Theo insists of join the search 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 for the journey and he'll provide more from his sea plane seaplane. The party then begun their perilous journey into jungles of the island.

As they march their way through the jungle, they hear noises in the brush then were attack two territorial Foetodons then decide to rest for the night.

Main
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. At first, he is shown to be fearsome and monstrous, until throughout the journey with Ann Kong becomes sympathetic 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 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 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 mid 20s with a slender voluptuous yet athletic body, fair skin, long mid-back wavy Malibu blonde hair w/h a widow's peak, amethyst eyes, toned broad shoulders, medium breasts, long legs, and wears pink lipstick. When she was being offered as a sacrifice, she wore revealing sacrificial garments which were brown strapless bandeau bikini top, brown pleated short skirt that exposes her midriff and is barefooted. She also wore gold jewelry such as arm bands and anklets bands She is shown a kind, 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 hotshot journalist and reporter for the NY Times newspaper whose been investigate Carl Denham and his new mystery film. However, while getting an interview with Carl, Jack inadvertently joins the voyage to skull island and later meets Ann who she soon falls in love with. 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 fisherman in Singapore three years prior and intends to film his picture there then show its existence to the world. Hoping to make a comeback, He and his devoted assistant, Preston, obsessively searched for a new leading actress to be in his new project, eventually crossing paths with Ann Darrow. 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, Englehorn and his trusty crew often ferried Denham on his globe-trotting moviemaking expeditions. Engelhorn was once an experienced pilot during WWII before he retired to the sea life. In which he also owned a seaplane 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 Englehorn's wing and been both his cabin boy and protege. Theo meets Ann when she boards the Venture and befriends her while he helps carries her luggage. Theo is very helpful, clever A Latin-American member of the Venture crew and Second mate. She is a strong-minded swashbuckling woman who reluctantly befriends Ann when she came aboard. During the voyage, Rayna develops a close friendship with Ann 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 fearless, sassy, cunning, sarcastic, quick-witted, helpful, resourceful, patient and loyal. Rayne acts both big sister figure to Theo. A wisecracking Pugiodorus and a compassionate yet less confident and timid Ferrucutusaurus who Ann meets/befriends on her first day on the Island. A large rogue bull 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.
 * TBA as King Kong: The titular protagonist
 * Halston Sage as Ann Darrow: The female protagonist
 * TBA as her singing voice
 * Grant Dustin as Jack Driscoll: The deuteragonist and love interest.
 * Seth McFarlane as Carl Denham: The false antagonist turned tritagonist
 * Corey Burton as Captain Englehorn: Main Supporting character
 * As-of-yet child actor as Theo: Major Supporting character
 * Eiza González or Zoe Saldaña as Rayna Caruso: Main Supporting
 * Alan Tudyk and Craig Robinson as Felix & Dumbar respectively: Main supporting characters, comic reliefs and dinosaur duo
 * TBA as Dharak : The central 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.
 * Steve Valentine as Niles Serrone: The main antagonist.
 * TBA as Burke, a hunter
 * TBA as Snyder, a skinny hunter
 * Cynda: The central antagonist. She is vicious and bloodthirst Spinosuchosaurus that was disturbed by the crew while they were making their way through hte swamp, not knowing they violated her territory

Crew of the Venture
There were over 76 crew members who worked on the Venture.
 * Peter Mensah as Wayland Hayes: The first mate abord the Venture. Hayes is unimpressed by Denham's dreams of glory.
 * Jim Cummings as Lumpy, the Venture's lovable cook and barber.
 * TBA as Kafi Saluja, an Indian crew member who is also a steward chef aboard the Venture and a good friend of Lumpy.
 * James Sie as, an Asian sailor who is item storer of the Venture and Lumpy's best friend.
 * Jeff Bennett as Frank (voiced by Jeff Bennett), a cantakerous Rigger
 * Jonathan Roumie as Jean-Pierre LaRoche, a French Rigger
 * Rigby (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key), Deckhand
 * Gideon Emery as Edward O'Neil (voiced by Gideon Emery) the Helmsman who has great dislike for bugs
 * Paul Briggs as Duke Helstrum, the silent anchorman
 * 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. 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.
 * David Cross as Preston, Carl's honest and devoted assistant who questions Carl's ambitions.
 * 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.
 * Brad Maxwell (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

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 (Kevin Michael Richardson), the leader of the tribe.
 * Faraji. son of the chief who acts as a mediator for
 * The Shaman, the tribe's blind yet wise elder 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
 * ???, a Termito'Saurus who has a craving interest of termites.

Skull Island
A large uncharted yet long-forgotten 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 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 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.

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


 * The Village
 * Threshold
 * The Valley
 * 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

Dinosaurs

 * Tyrannosaurus-Rex
 * Raptors
 * Triceratops
 * Stegosaurus
 * Parasaurolophus
 * Brontosaurus
 * Gallimimus
 * Pachyrhinosaurus
 * Allosaurus
 * Ceratosaurus
 * Brachiosaurs
 * Ankylosaurus
 * Edmontosaurus
 * Coelophysis
 * Therizinosaurus
 * Giganotosaurus

Birds and Reptiles

 * Pterodactyl
 * Pteranodon
 * Deinosuchus
 * Feather Devil, a seven-inch lizard indigenous to skull island

Insects

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

Differences from the original and Universal adaptions

 * This film will be set in the 21st century rather than the 1930s during the Grat Depression.
 * Skull Island is not unstable
 * Jack Driscoll is reintroduced as NYC journalist
 * 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.

Animation
The film visual styles are similar to that of Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Frozen.

Scene Selection

 * 1) Opening Title/Prologue
 * 2) Theatre Shut Down/"Queen of "
 * 3) Denham Proposition
 * 4) A Star is Found/"???"
 * 5) The S.S. Venture
 * 6) Meeting the Crew
 * 7) Filming Begins
 * 8) A Long Voyage
 * 9) The Map and Legends
 * 10) Skull Island
 * 11) Native Ceremony
 * 12) Jack's Confession
 * 13) Kidnapped
 * 14) The Sacrifice
 * 15) The Journey begins
 * 16) Raptor Ambush
 * 17) Morning Surprises
 * 18) A New World
 * 19) Morning New Friends
 * 20) Valley Stampede
 * 21) Ann and Kong
 * 22) Rapids Chase
 * 23) The Swamps
 * 24) Splitting Up
 * 25) The Log Bridge
 * 26) Waterfall Bathing
 * 27) The Bug Pit
 * 28) Dead Weight
 * 29) Chase
 * 30) Reunion
 * 31) Through the Marshes
 * 32) Niles Persuasion
 * 33) Summoning Kong
 * 34) Kong vs V-Rex vs Spinosuchosaurus
 * 35) Kong's Lair
 * 36) Jack and Rayna
 * 37) Serpent
 * 38) Back to the Village
 * 39) Kong Capture
 * 40) 8th Wonder of the World
 * 41) Carl's Plan of Redemption
 * 42) Finding Kong
 * 43) The Empire State Building
 * 44) Friends to the Rescue
 * 45) Ann's Speech
 * 46) The Fall of Niles
 * 47) Returning to Skull Island/"Twas Beauty Saved the Beast"
 * 48) End Credits
 * 1) The Fall of Niles
 * 2) Returning to Skull Island/"Twas Beauty Saved the Beast"
 * 3) End Credits


 * Extended scenes**

Trivia

 * Kong's design is heavily modeled after Kerchak from Disney's Tarzan 1998.
 * 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 ???.
 * 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, Hayea, Jasper, Shapard, O'Neil
 * Nile's group