Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts says he wanted to include an era-appropriate LSD dream sequence in his ’70s-set monster movie but never got to shoot it.
For all its visual call-backs to Apocalypse Now, Kong: Skull Island never achieves the sense of feverish surrealism that characterizes Coppola’s masterpiece, but remains completely grounded and tonally straight-forward in the manner of most modern-era popcorn movies.
After that will come Adam Wingard’s Godzilla vs. Kong, which Jordan Vogt-Roberts says will have the same “sensibility” as Kong: Skull Island.
Visually, Kong: Skull Island already owes a lot to Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War masterpiece Apocalypse Now – and according to director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the plan at one time was to ramp up the psychedelic Vietnam War-era imagery even more by including an LSD sequence.