When the first trailer for "Kong: Skull Island" was presented during the Comic-Con in San Diego, California last summer, it simply gave a quick glimpse of a rather uninteresting, predictable plot about the army v.s. King Kong. The exclusive premiere on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," however, was more revealing, telling it is more complicated than one would expect.
The spoiler-filled cinematic trailer depicts Samuel L. Jackson and his men being briefed about dropping explosives to shake the earth of an unexplored island in the South Pacific, terming them as "scientific instruments" for euphemism. It appears that the inhabitants didn't appreciate the joke, thus a towering ape comes crashing and tearing down invading helicopters with his bare hands.
John Goodman, appearing as possibly an agent of Monarch, tells the crew, including Brie Larson playing as a photojournalist and Tom Hiddleston as a soldier, that they can only go home once they get proof that monsters exist. They stumble upon a tribe along with John C. Reilly who explains the predicament they are in, and that Kong may not be the only peculiar thing they will see on the island.
The clip shows giant spiders with feet towering like bamboo trees, huge moss-ridden oxen and seemingly prehistoric creatures, only known as skull-crawlers, who make their homes within the molten earth. Basing from the story's narrative and sights of gigantic ape-like skeletons, Nerdist thinks that the skull-crawlers may be responsible for the death of Kong's race.
In other news, Tom Hiddleston was tricked into wearing an ape costume to promote the movie in "Jimmy Kimmel Live." Kimmel, perplexed, asked Hiddleston about the person who told him to do it. Hiddleston said the executive producer made him do it and that he was told Leonardo DiCaprio dressed up as the bear when he promoted "The Revenant." After discovering he was fooled, he ran after the guy who tricked him.
"Kong: Skull Island" is scheduled to premiere on March 10, 2017.
