Prepare for the coming of Kong with our Skull Island cast spotlight! King Kong returns to the big screen March 10th in Kong: Skull Island. While not exactly an origin story, the film is set in 1973, just after the end of the Vietnam War. The film sees a disparate group of people who were involved in the war in one way or another head out to explore the “mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific.” The producers of Kong: Skull Island were also the minds behind 2014’s Godzilla reboot, but this is not a sequel; it is another tale set in the same “MonsterVerse.” Recently, we posted a history of the King Kong franchise.