Last year, it was announced that Brian Duffield, writer of the genre films The Babysitter, Spontaneous, Underwater, and Love and Monsters, would be writing and executive producing the Kong animated series Skull Island for Legendary Entertainment and the Netflix streaming service. Netflix offered previews of a lot of their upcoming projects for this week’s Geeked Week event, and as part of that event they and Legendary have shared the first image from Skull Island. That image can be seen at the bottom of this article.
Skull Island is said to be “a new epic chapter in Legendary’s Monsterverse franchise”. In addition to the film Kong: Skull Island (watch it HERE), the Monsterverse also includes 2014’s Godzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong.
The Skull Island animated series will center on
a group of explorers that find themselves on a collision course with strange beasts, terrifying Titans and the most mysterious island the world has ever known!
We had previously heard that the leads of the show are
shipwrecked characters who are desperate to survive the most dangerous place on Earth, the island that is home to colossal monsters, including the iconic “megaprimatus” Kong.
Jacob Robinson of the production company Tractor Pants is executive producing Skull Island alongside Duffield. The animation is being handled by Powerhouse Animation, the studio behind Netflix’s Castlevania anime series. This project is separate from Netflix’s previous animated Kong show, Kong: King of the Apes, which ran for two seasons on the streaming service.
A premiere date for Skull Island has not yet been announced, but we’ll let you know when that information is made available. In the meantime, let us know whether or not you’re looking forward to Skull Island by leaving a comment below.
Here’s the first image from the show:
