King Kong to return!

After a 12-year absence, King Kong is returning to theatres next year in Kong: Skull Island, the latest entry in the gorilla’s decades-long movie career. The movie’s social media accounts has effectively displayed how massive and intimidating Kong will look. Also, as the skull (in pictures) indicates, Kong won’t be the only huge creature living on Skull Island.

One thing that will distinguish this Kong from the others is that he’s the biggest of all the gorillas, measuring approximately 100-feet tall.

Set in the 1970s, Kong: Skull Island will follow a group of explorers traversing through a previously-uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately, they don’t know that they’ve entered Kong’s domain, and just like the previous King Kong movies. The main cast includes Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Corey Hawkins, Tobey Kebbell, John Goodman, Jason Mitchell and plenty more.

Kong: Skull Island is set to be released on March 10, 2017.

Is Man of Steel 2 really in the works?

AMan of Steel sequel is going into active development at Warner Bros., a source close to the production has informed. It is further reported that a solo Superman movie is a ‘top priority’ for Warner, and that restoring the character’s reputation is of ‘tantamount importance’ to the DCEU (DC Extended Universe), as a whole.

Giving Superman a solo sequel makes all the sense in the world. All of the individual Justice League members are receiving standalone movies, from The Flash and Aquaman to Wonder Woman.

But it is not clear when this movie will actually happen as Warner Bros. and DC have a full slate of movies on its release calendar already, and making room for Man of Steel 2 won’t be so easy. They still want to date Ben Affleck’s solo Batman movie, and they have plans for movies as far out as 2019 and 2020. Right now, there are untitled DC superhero movies down for October 5, 2018 and November 1, 2019. Could one of those hold Man of Steel 2? Fingers crossed!

Published in Dawn, Young World, September 3rd, 2016