Could there be a real Skull Island?

There isn’t, thankfully. The island, like its inhabitants, is wholly fictional. Kong’s island home in the Pacific makes its first appearance, along with Kong himself, in the 1933 film King Kong. There are a handful of real life islands known as Skull Island scattered across the globe.

Could something like Kong exist?

No, not everything is possible. For starters, being a warm-blooded mammal, a 60-ft tall gorilla would require significantly more energy to sustain itself than a dinosaur that’s the same size. King Kong would be eating and eating and eating and would consume an entire forest in seconds.

Could there be a real King Kong?

But what we do know is that there is no way King Kong could exist in real life. For that, we have Gigantopithecus’s jaw remnants to thank — and the rigid rules of biophysics. Not only would Kong wipe out all the vegetation needed for his diet pretty quickly, but also there’s no way he could even exist as a giant ape.

Is Skull Island a remake of King Kong?

However, Skull Island isn’t a remake of any of these films — not Son of Kong or King Kong Escapes or even King Kong Lives. It is an original take on the classic story that is meant to serve as the foundation of a new shared universe between the massive ape and another iconic giant monster: Godzilla.

What happened to King Kong’s expedition to Skull Island?

Skull Island ate expeditions with all the appetite of the full-grown V. T-Rexs that ruled the landmass in Kong’s absence. After a year of disastrous excursions and tragic loss of life, a properly prepared, jointly managed and financed effort was finally organized by the three biggest interested concerns.

What happened to the real Skull Island?

Kong’s brief appearance and destruction in Manhattan in 1933 paralleled the discovery and loss of the island. Barely fifteen years after its discovery, Skull Island and all its wondrous secrets were lost to the waves, the island torn to pieces by the same irresistible geologic force that had preserved it for so many eons.

Is Skull Island the same as Skull Mountain?

Kong’s island home in the Pacific makes its first appearance, along with Kong himself, in the 1933 film King Kong. There, the island is depicted as having a skull-shaped mountain called “Skull Mountain,” but the island itself is never referred to as “Skull Island” on screen.