Another iteration of King Kong will hit theaters next year. A first look photo of the 2017 version of the giant movie monster has been unveiled this week to whet the fans' appetite.
Entertainment Weekly shared the image on Thursday, offering longtime fans of Kong a closer look and a gauge on what to expect when he returns for another poignant story in the big screens. The photo captures the behemoth character against a backdrop of the forest, with his mouth widely-opened with rage.
On the same report, "Kong: Skull Island" director Jordan Vogt-Roberts talked about his vision behind the image and whether he's trying to capture the character as a threat or a god-like protector of his world.
"That sequence comes from a point in the movie where you're not quite sure who Kong is, what his purpose is, how people should be perceiving him," the director explained.
"At first, of course you're going to perceive something like that as a terrible threat and monster - the physicality of him alone. A huge part of the movie was designing him and creating the creature so that when you did see him it sort of short circuited your brain and was divisive to people, where certain people immediately say 'That's a threat,' certain people immediately say, 'That's a God,' certain people immediately say, 'That's a savior.'"
The big-budget pic set in the 1970s during the Vietnam War follows a British Special Forces vet (Tom Hiddleston), a war photographer (Brie Larson) and their team when they unintentionally stumble upon King Kong while exploring Skull Island. The movie also stars Samuel L. Jackson and John Goodman.
"Kong: Skull Island" opens in theatres on March 10, 2017.