
Kong: Skull Island is a movie novelization written by Tim Lebbon in 2017 and based on the movie of the same name, directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts in 2017. The movie features Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John C. Reilly, John Goodman, Corey Hawkins, and others.
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Storyline
In 1944, two World War II fighter pilots, American pilot Hank Marlow and Japanese pilot Gunpei Ikari, parachute onto an island in the South Pacific after a dogfight and engage in close combat, but the fight is interrupted by a giant 100-foot ape. Packard goes in search of the transport helicopter piloted by his right-hand man Major Jack Chapman, intending to use the weapons on board to kill the ape.
Movie vs Book

Year
2017
Minutes
118
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb
Movie
Kong: Skull Island
Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts
Country: USA
Year: 2017
Length: 1h58m
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Year
2017
Pages
375
Book Rate
7.90
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Book
Kong: Skull Island
Subtitle: The Official Movie Novelization
Author: Tim Lebbon
Country: UK
First published in: 2017
Length: 375 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: MonsterVerse
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Novelizations aren’t just a transcription of the film story. They also add details and backstory to the plot in a literary way.
“It was really important to me that people would experience the same feelings from the movie as they did from the book.”
PABLO BERGER (Filmmaker)

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