Tom Hiddleston and the 'Kong: Skull Island' Cast on Why This Is a New Kind of Monster Movie

Kong: Skull Island, which just debuted its new trailer at the Warner Bros. Comic-Con panel on Saturday, is only the latest screen incarnation of the mammoth monster which first wreaked havoc in 1933′s King Kong. So what makes this one different? Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and part of his cast, including Tom Hiddleston, John Goodman, Corey Hawkins, and Jason Mitchell stopped by the Yahoo Movies’ Comic-Con studio, and we asked them to explain.

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“There is a giant ape involved — spoiler alert!” joked Goodman, about the ‘70s- set adventure that finds a group of explorers — which also includes Samuel L. Jackson and Brie Larson — encountering more than they bargained for on the title island. “We didn’t want to tell the ‘beauty and the beast’ story over and over,” said Vogt-Roberts. “We wanted to tell a new story within this mythology.”

The director also talked about creating as many practical effects as possible to make sure Skull Island felt like a real, tangible place. A portion of filming took place in Vietnam, among other exotic locales — “These were not easy places to shoot,” says Hiddleston. “They were spectacular. Some of the most beautiful and remote places on earth.” Added Hawkins: “No pun intended — or maybe all pun intended — it was guerrilla filmmaking.”

Kong: Skull Island hits theaters on March 10, 2017.