Kong: Skull Island Trailer: 8 Things You Might Have Missed

7. There's A Bad Moon Rising...

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Quite often, music that's used in trailers is there purely to set the tone, and little else. Very rarely are the lyrics relevant to the on-screen action, but that's exactly the case here.

The song used in this particular trailer is 'Bad Moon Rising' by Creedence Clearwater Revival, released in 1969 and written by John Fogerty. In the trailer, we can hear the lines "I see a bad moon a-rising" and "I see trouble on the way", in an admittedly on-the-nose nod to the devastation that's to come.

A much cleverer nod, though, is the fact that Fogerty told Rolling Stone that the ominous lyrics are in reference to "the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us", which, on the filmmakers part, is a much more subtle reference to not only the events of Kong: Skull Island, but the apocalyptic-level destruction that will surely be wrought when the ape clashes with Godzilla in the impending 2020 monster movie.

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