'Kong: Skull Island' Was Supposed to Have a 'Trippy' LSD Sequence
"Kong: Skull Island" may not have been the strongest movie in the franchise, but it managed to earn $168 million at the domestic box office alone. Although the imagery of the movie was obviously heavily influenced by Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War masterpiece "Apocalypse Now," director Jordan Vogt-Roberts recently revealed that the original plan was to include an LSD sequence to build up the psychedelic visuals of the current film.
Earlier this week, Vogt-Roberts unveiled a concept art for one of the scenes in "Kong: Skull Island," and it showed a far more psychedelic look than the 1968 cult movie "Head." The director took to Twitter to share the said image and revealed that the movie almost included a "trippy LSD dream sequence."
"Since it was 'Nam and the 70's I really wanted to do an LSD dream sequence. Things were going to get trippy. Never was able to shoot it tho," he tweeted.
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Fans who were able to watch the film might have noticed that some of the scenes featured in it were reminiscent of a few of the events in "Apocalypse Now." One of those was the first helicopter encounter with Kong following the storm that obscured the whole of Skull Island, which was similar to the Air Cavalry assault in the 1979 film.
Although "Apocalypse Now" did not feature a LSD dream sequence, it did include a scene where it appeared Lance Johnson took some acid while the gun boat floated through a seemingly eerie battleground.
"Kong: Skull Island" may have failed to achieve the surrealism of "Apocalypse Now," but it was still good enough to set the stage for the next movies in the MonsterVerse franchise, the first of which being Michael Dougherty's "Godzilla: King of the Monsters."
"Kong: Skull Island" premiered in U.S. theaters last March and starred Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, Brie Larson and John Goodman among others.
