Author Tim Lebbon brings us the novelization the film of Kong: Skull Island. Novelizations normally go off an early draft of the script and this one is no exception. As the story opens two pilots are dog fighting off the shore of an unknown island. Once they crash they continue to try and kill each other but one thing stops them and that is the sight of a giant gorilla looking down at the both of them. Thirty years later Rhonda, wants to go on an expedition to Skull Island knowing that the monsters that he had been talking about for years are real and this would prove his point. He convinces a senator that he had known since he was a kid to fund the voyage since NASA is also involved with a mapping expiation too. They piggy back on that but Rhonda also goes and gets a former British Captain to come along and be their guide. NASA brings in Weaver a photographer. But the last component is a group of helicopter pilots and their vessels to be their mussel. They don't really know what their getting into. Once they reach Skull Island it is said that a film crew had come to the same place in 1933 (the time of the original King Kong and it's Peter Jackson remake) and never left. As soon as they start dropping bombs to judge the land Kong appears and swats the helicopters like flies. I won't get into the rest of the story but this was a great novelization and makes me look forward to reading the novelization of Godzilla 2014. I highly recommend this book and film to all Kaiju and science fiction fans.
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