Entertainment Weekly gave movie fans a first look at the titular giant ape in the upcoming Kong: Skull Island. Speaking with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, EW gets him to spill the beans on the momentous scene in the photo, his artistic vision and how it will be different from previous versions of King Kong’s story.
“We sort of went back to the 1933 version in the sense that he’s a bipedal creature that walks in an upright position, as opposed to the anthropomorphic, anatomically correct silverback gorilla that walks on all fours. Our Kong was intended to say, like, this isn’t just a big gorilla or a big monkey. This is something that is its own species. It has its own set of rules, so we can do what we want and we really wanted to pay homage to what came before…and yet do something completely different.”
The reboot will debut in theaters on March 10, 2017 and stars Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Goodman as 1970s explorers who mistakenly stumble on Kong’s home turf. Read the full interview here.