Kong: Skull Island Trailer: 8 Things You Might Have Missed
4. Apocalypse Now References
The newest trailer for Skull Island really hammered home the fact that the film takes place in the late 60s/early 70s, around the same time as the Vietnam War, which began in the 1950s and ended in 1975.
This heavily indicates that the film will parallel said war - perhaps it never even happened in this movie universe - and even the trailer's tagline, 'we don't belong here' could be an indirect reference to the fact that the U.S. soldiers who fought in Vietnam were partaking in a battle that just wasn't their fight.
This Vietnam-era feel links Kong: Skull Island directly with Francis-Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, a movie that took place during the Vietnam War and features more than a passing similarity to the upcoming monster blockbuster.
Both feature interchangeable jungle environments and settings, both revolve around the United States Army, and Skull Island even shares a few blatant visual cues with the seminal war movie. The shot of Kong set against the golden red sun is lifted straight from Apocalypse's poster, and the shots of flames raging through Skull Island feel incredibly like the famous explosion scene from Coppola's 1979 epic.