King Kong (2017)

King Kong is a 2017 American Action Monsters Movie directed by Gareth Edwards, written by Max Borenstein and produced by Universal Studios. King Kong is the first movie in the King Kong triology, a spinn-off to the main Godzilla triology that spawned due to its popularity. King Kong is a remake of the same 1933, 1976 and 2005 movies of the same name. It stars Shelley Henning, Michael Douglas and Chris Hemsworth.

Cast.

 * Shelley Henning as Ann Darrow, a foolish actress new to the world of cinema.
 * Michael Douglas as Carl Denham, an old director who has lost most of his funds for a future movie, so he decides to make one about the urban legend King Kong to get the money he needs.
 * Chris Hemsworth as Jack Discroll, captain of the crew of the Ventura, the ship that will take Ann and Carl to Skull Island.
 * Ken Jeong as Akasuki Owata, second mate of the crew of the Ventura and former scientist.

Plot.
The movie begins in Hollywood, 1933. Several businessman of the action film movie company 'Thoo' argue over how Carl Denham's fame is slowly falling and deteriorating, and so they decided to cancel his latest project on the works and take away most of his budget, Carl, enraged, explodes in rage and attacks one of the men, before being calmed down. He goes to his apartment and checks how many money he has left, to entertain himself, Carl goes to the library in his house, where he starts reading about strange cryptics, one of them being the strange 'Kong', who only shows himself when a lady has been sacrificed, hailing from Skull Island, a landmark popular in several urban legends about mystical creatures, after discovering that Skull Island actually exists, Carl decides to do a low-budget film about King Kong and record him on camera so he would have enough money for his next project, he quickly makes a script, but he needs something else, an actress.

Ann Darrow, an actress who has barely had any work related to the world of cinema, she is approached by Carl, who asks her to star in a movie as one of the only characters, but in order to do that they must travel to a legendary Island in Indonesia, Ann, seeing it as an opportunity to finally have a main paper, agrees to do so. Carl tells her that they will be sailing in exactly three weeks and a half.

Three weeks later, Ann arrives at the harbour along with Carl, where they meet Jack, who greets them into their ship, Jack and the crew have been informed of the actual mission, and they are willing to kidnap her and sacrifice her to Kong. In the middle of the journey, Ann is knocked out. She wakes up tied up and hanging from the ceiling as Carl explains the plan to attract Kong and give the poor actress to the old tribes in order to awaken the primate. However, the ship is attacked by a giant Octopus, Jack and Owata manage to scare the enormous animal off before arriving to Skull Island.

The crew forces a still tied up Ann to a sack as they travel towards the main village, observing the strange ecosystems of Skull Island, they eventually stop for the night, and Jack, feeling a bit bad for Ann, opens the sack a bit so she can see the night sky one last time. Next day they take off once again, and are attacked by gigantic spiders, after fighting them off, they finally reach the village, where they meet the chief, Carl, who has learnt the language of the Islanders, tells him that they want to see Kong, and that they have brought a sacrifice with them, they open the sack to reveal Ann. The tribe cheers for a new sacrifice and go to Kong's altar, they tie up Ann to wooden poles, they start cheering as they hear roars and grunts. Three large figures approach the sacrifice altar, the biggest of the two walk away, as the smaller one approaches the woman, fairly confused. It's revealed that the figure is a baby Kong, Carl starts recording everything going on until Kong grabs Ann and runs off, they stop recording and run after the gigantic primate, but most of the crew is killed by a gigantic T-Rex, who chases after Kong. Carl, Akasuki and an injured Jack are the only ones left.

Meanwhile, Kong retreats with Ann to a cave, where he seems to form some sort of bond with him. They're interrupted by the same T-Rex, who tries to eat Ann. Kong defends his new friend and tears the T-Rex's jaw apart. Discroll, Carl and Akasuki reach the cave, Discroll tries to rescue Ann from the sleeping gorilla and succesfully gets her out of the gigantic ape's grasp, but causes too much noise which causes the monster to awaken and chase the group through the jungle, suddenly, Kong is knocked out by a grenade thrown by Akasuki, they get to the Ventura and lock Kong in the gigantic cellar, Carl proposes to kill Ann by drowning her so she can't report them, Akasuki agrees but Discroll doesn't, after an argument, they go to their cabinets to sleep. Next morning, Discroll says he'll be the one to throw Ann into the water, but in reality, she hides her in his room so that they can't kill her. They eventually reach New York and prepare the premiere of the movie 'King Kong'. Also bringing the monster in, however, Kong escapes.

Kong goes to the ship to get Ann back and climbs up the Empire State, he is shot down by several planes though and dies along with Ann.

Post-Credits Scene.
Kasuki is seen investigating on Kaijus, fearing that they might be a danger for Earth, and so he creates the organization ZOWA and the Oxygen Destroyer.