Kong: Skull Island takes place shortly after the end of the Vietnam War in the ’70s and follows a group of human explorers to the eponymous island – including, a former SAS tracker (Tom Hiddleston), a wartime photographer (Brie Larson) and a world-weary lieutenant colonel (Samuel L. Jackson), among others.
But when I started talking to the Legendary [Entertainment] guys, I was thinking, ‘What weird King Kong movie would I want to see?’
The aesthetics of that time mixed with King Kong makes for an incredible genre mash-up.”
So I pitched them the Vietnam War connection, literally thinking they were gonna laugh me out of the room.