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This Terrifying Sea Monster Was Almost in ‘Kong: Skull Island’
Not that Kong: Skull Island necessarily needed more monsters, as it was loaded with awesome ones, but director Jordan Vogt-Roberts just shared a concept sketch for a creature that *almost* made it into the film… and goddamn, we kinda wish it did!
“Here’s an unused creature design for Kong,” Vogt-Roberts tweeted. “There was a whole sequence written for this creepy guy from an early draft.”
The creepy drawing, which looks to be from artist Stephanie Levallois, shows an underwater sea creature lurking beneath a boat. It’s got massive spider-like legs that are breaching the surface of the water, and a face that I’m pretty sure its own mother couldn’t even love. True nightmare fuel, to say the very least.
In case you missed it, Vogt-Roberts also recently shared Skull Island concept art for an unused LSD dream sequence that likely would’ve been totally bonkers!
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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