Jeff White revealed that Jordan Vogt-Roberts explained two things about Kong 'Number one: not a gorilla. Number two: not something we've necessarily seen in previous Kong iterations, but certainly looking for the most inspiration from the original '33 Kong'. "That was really interesting, because as we started talking about the project, we did what we naturally do, which is pull lots of gorilla-movement reference [footage]. But after we had that first meeting with Jordan, we definitely were changing tracks a little bit, where Kong was not going to be a quadruped, and he was going to stand upright. Those decisions really influenced so many things about this Kong. One thing we were very worried about with him walking upright was, "Is he going to look like a guy in a suit?" We wanted to make sure that he still felt like this creature. For Jordan, it was really about getting back to this sense of a movie monster, rather than just a giant gorilla. We had some really fun discussions and things to solve as far as what his anatomy is, his underlying sculpt. He really is this interesting hybrid of man and gorilla. Gorillas can't actually stand up very well. It's very uncomfortable for them, because their ribs end up resting right on their pelvic bone. So for this guy, we re-sculpted him, kept the shorter legs, very long arms, and added more separation between his torso and his rib cage, and made him his own thing. But I think when you get to the face, especially, we started with a pretty traditional gorilla. Looking more toward the western lowland gorillas than the silverbacks. Then we just started pushing the anatomy further and further away until we landed at this movie monster that Jordan was looking for, where it has massive brows. He loved the '33 Kong, how you could read the craziness in the eyes. A lot of that was because that gorilla had such bright eye-whites, and he looked googly-eyed a lot of the time. A huge challenge for us was, "How do we incorporate that look and feel, and still have it look realistic?"

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