Kong Skull Island movie set to film in Queensland, Australia.
The King Kong Skull Island movie is set to join the likes of Thor: Ragnarok, Alien: Paradise Lost and the next Pirates Of The Caribbean movie by shooting in Australia. The filming will take place at Village Roadshow Studios at Oxenford, near the Gold Coast, and on location throughout south-east Queensland, according to ABC.net.au.
“Kong will spend more than $15 million in Queensland by leveraging our world-class facilities and enlisting cast and crews in all aspects of physical production,” said Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
“The production will create 60 local jobs in addition to the Queenslanders who have already been enlisted, with the production manager and art director already confirmed as Queenslanders.”
This year’s San Andreas, starring Dwayne Johnson, also shot in the region, which went on to be a massive global hit.
The King Kong Skull Island movie will debut in cinemas on 10th March, 2017, with shooting set to start early in the new year. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson and John Goodman will star in the King Kong Skull Island movie, which will be directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts (The Kings Of Summer).
The film will reignite the King Kong franchise, and following the release of Godzilla 2 in 2018, filmmakers will bring the two franchises together for a Godzilla vs King Kong movie in 2020.
Kong: Skull Island will be written by Max Borenstein, Derek Connolly, John Gatins and Dan Gilroy. The movie will have nothing to do with any previous incarnations, including the Peter Jackson version that starred Jack Black, which was released in 2005. The intention is to rest proceedings in the King Kong universe, with the Kong Skull Island movie resetting proceedings and concentrating on the origins of the troubled giant ape, which would go on to wreak havoc on New York City. Judging by the fact that Godzilla is set in the present day, we’d expect this new version to break with tradition of being set in the 1930s, unless there’s a considerable gap between events in this and the planned Godzilla cross-over. More news as we get it.
