Shadow, exploring where Lara goes next – though there’s no word yet on whether Camilla Luddington will return to voice Croft herself.
As for
Skull Island, it’s part of the ongoing big-screen Monsterverse, which is about to expand shortly with the arrival of
Godzilla Vs. Kong. The series will be set around King Kong’s home, previously visited in 2017’s
Kong: Skull Island, and will follow “a shipwrecked crew, an island of monsters, and one king to rule them all”.
Since Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ film was set in the ‘70s, this one could theoretically take place after that in the decades running up to monster-mash of
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Itâs easy to be swept up by Disney+âs
The Mandalorian Season 2. The second set up of episodes did spectacular things and minor spoilers introducing us to new species and Baby Yodaâs real name, but it also tied into the familiar in the Star Wars universe in new and exciting ways. Now, after watching like the rest of us,
Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has shared his feelings on the new season and how impactful Star Wars has been to his career as a whole.
In fact, if you were to ask Jordan Vogt-Roberts, thereâs been a lot of time spent thinking about
Ape-ocalypse Now: Kong: Skull Island Is an Existential War Movie
Kong: Skull Island as “a mash-up between
Apocalypse Now,
Thin Red Line and Bong Joon-ho’s monster movie
The Host.” This unique combination accounts for a lot of what makes Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ 2017 creature feature such an unexpected delight.
Skull Island is the highlight to date of the so-called “MonsterVerse,” the reimagining of classic gigantic monsters produced by Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. The studios have struggled somewhat with the other films in the series. While there are aspects to recommend either film, both
Godzilla (2014) and
Skull Island, but also to Hideaki Anno’s