A new video uploaded onto the Kong: Skull Island Twitter account has made these connections more explicit by revealing MONARCH surveillance documents pertaining to Tom Hiddleston’s character, Captain James Conrad.
This pastiche approach worked for Jackson, and in rebooting the franchise with Kong: Skull Island, Jordan Vogt-Roberts has taken a similar approach to the 1976 version of King Kong.
Considering that Kong: Skull Island and Godzilla are set roughly 40 years apart, James Conrad could return as a grizzled survivor of his time in both Vietnam, on the mythical island.
The connection to Hiddleston’s character suggests that the shady organization has some part in the expedition to the titular island.