Before the hotly anticipated movie, Kong: Skull Island, was a Warner Bros. project, it was first situated at Universal Studios, so why did Universal gave it up to Warner Bros. just like that?
In the movie industry, crazy things happen all the time, but this time around, the decision Universal took made a lot of sense to us. It also makes us wonder how Warner Bros. is aiming to combat the huge technical difficulties that Universal did not want to bear.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Studios chose to walk away from the deal with Legendary Pictures and its Kong: Skull Island proposal because Legendary wanted to increase the budget of the film by 25 percent.
Executives were definitely excited about another King Kong film, but a 25 percent increase in the budget was too much for Universal.
To make things even more of an issue, Legendary wanted to make it so that Kong: Skull Island was in the same world as the Godzilla reboot. We understand that Monarch, a character from the Godzilla movie was referenced in the script.
The problem is Universal has no control over Godzilla; that's a Warner Bros. thing. Still, even if Universal was willing to work with Godzilla being referenced in Kong: Skull Island, there was an even larger problem, and that was likely what sent Universal packing.
Remember that planned movie that is all about Godzilla taking on King Kong? Well, Universal had an issue with that. The thing is, King Kong is much smaller than Godzilla in terms of size, so how would such a film work?
It sounds good on paper, but to be honest, it doesn't make much sense. Hey, we'd love to see these two huge monsters going toe-to-toe, but let's face it, Godzilla would have wiped the floor with King Kong's blood in any fight, any day of the week.
We also understand from the report that Kong: Skull Island is not the only movie Universal has a problem with. The film dubbed as the savior for video game movies, Warcraft, is apparently a problem child for Universal, so right away our hopes of it turning out to be something special has been dashed.
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