On June 22nd, Legendary Entertainment and the Netflix streaming service will be bringing us “a new epic chapter in Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise” in the form of a Kong animated series called Skull Island. Two weeks out from the show’s premiere, a full trailer has been released online and can be seen in the embed above.
Brian Duffield, writer of the genre films The Babysitter, Spontaneous, Underwater, and Love and Monsters, is a writer and executive producer on Skull Island. The animated series will center on a group of explorers that find themselves on a collision course with strange beasts, terrifying Titans and the most mysterious island the world has ever known!
We had previously heard that the leads of the show are shipwrecked characters who are desperate to survive the most dangerous place on Earth, the island that is home to colossal monsters, including the iconic “megaprimatus” Kong.
Brian Duffield, writer of the genre films The Babysitter, Spontaneous, Underwater, and Love and Monsters, is a writer and executive producer on Skull Island. The animated series will center on a group of explorers that find themselves on a collision course with strange beasts, terrifying Titans and the most mysterious island the world has ever known!
We had previously heard that the leads of the show are shipwrecked characters who are desperate to survive the most dangerous place on Earth, the island that is home to colossal monsters, including the iconic “megaprimatus” Kong.
- 6/9/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
A couple years ago, it was announced that Brian Duffield, writer of the genre films The Babysitter, Spontaneous, Underwater, and Love and Monsters, would be writing and executive producing the Kong animated series Skull Island for Legendary Entertainment and the Netflix streaming service. Now Netflix has confirmed that the show will be available to watch as of June 22nd – and they have unveiled a teaser trailer to give us an idea of what this series has in store for us. You can check it out in the embed above.
Skull Island is said to be “a new epic chapter in Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise”. In addition to the film Kong: Skull Island (watch it Here), the Monsterverse also includes 2014’s Godzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong.
The Skull Island animated series will center on a group of explorers that find themselves on a collision course with strange beasts,...
Skull Island is said to be “a new epic chapter in Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise”. In addition to the film Kong: Skull Island (watch it Here), the Monsterverse also includes 2014’s Godzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong.
The Skull Island animated series will center on a group of explorers that find themselves on a collision course with strange beasts,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
King Kong will swing back into streaming with a live-action series at Disney+, now in early development per Deadline.
Written by Stephany Folsom (“Paper Girls”), the working titled “King Kong” project would mark the gigantic ape-like monster’s fourth serialized adventure, but will be the first to feature live actors running alongside the title creature. (“The King Kong Show” (1966), “Kong: The Animated Series” (2000), and “Kong: King of the Apes” (2016) were all animated.)
“‘King Kong’ is a serialized action/adventure drama that brings the classic monster story into the modern age, with a return to Skull Island and the dawn of a new Kong,” reports Nellie Andreeva for Deadline. “The series will explore the mythology of King Kong’s origin story and the supernatural mysteries of his home based on IP from Merian C. Cooper’s original books and the new King Kong novelizations by Joe DeVito.”
The project comes from...
Written by Stephany Folsom (“Paper Girls”), the working titled “King Kong” project would mark the gigantic ape-like monster’s fourth serialized adventure, but will be the first to feature live actors running alongside the title creature. (“The King Kong Show” (1966), “Kong: The Animated Series” (2000), and “Kong: King of the Apes” (2016) were all animated.)
“‘King Kong’ is a serialized action/adventure drama that brings the classic monster story into the modern age, with a return to Skull Island and the dawn of a new Kong,” reports Nellie Andreeva for Deadline. “The series will explore the mythology of King Kong’s origin story and the supernatural mysteries of his home based on IP from Merian C. Cooper’s original books and the new King Kong novelizations by Joe DeVito.”
The project comes from...
- 8/23/2022
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
Refusing to monkey around with its children's programming slate, Netflix has renewed the animated Kong: King of the Apes TV show for a second season. Will Kong, Lukas and their team save Earth from Botila's plans to replace nature with technology? Find out in 2017, when season two drops to Netflix. The first season premiered in April 2016.
From Executive Producer Avi Arad, the Kong: King of the Apes TV series is set in 2050. Netflix says Kong is still the strongest creature ever born with human traits that make him the ultimate iconic hero. The Kong: King of the Apes voice cast includes: Lee Tockar, Shannon Chan-Kent, Sam Vincent, Kathleen Barr, Alessandro Juliani, Viv Leacock, Tabith St. Germain, and Vincent Trong.
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From Executive Producer Avi Arad, the Kong: King of the Apes TV series is set in 2050. Netflix says Kong is still the strongest creature ever born with human traits that make him the ultimate iconic hero. The Kong: King of the Apes voice cast includes: Lee Tockar, Shannon Chan-Kent, Sam Vincent, Kathleen Barr, Alessandro Juliani, Viv Leacock, Tabith St. Germain, and Vincent Trong.
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- 6/16/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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