The latest of these is Kong: Skull Island, a reboot that pushes Kong into the modern era with a big budget behind him.
The film honors what came before, but Skull Island noticeably left out one classic element of King Kong: no beauty and the beast love story.
King Kong’s history in cinema dates all the way back to 1933, cementing himself as America’s number one movie monster.
King Kong would show up in dozens of more iterations of himself over the years, each one taking their own creative liberties while still sticking to the Kong formula.