More casting news has come in for Kong: Skull Island as Deadline is reporting that John Ortiz and Shea Whigham are the latest to join the ever-growing cast. No word on the characters Ortiz and Whigham will play.
The duo join the previously announced Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly, and Toby Kebbell, who also star in the project, which is being directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts from a script by John Gatins and Max Borenstein. Producing are Legendary’s John Jashni and Thomas Tull as well as Mary Parent.
The film is about a man (Hiddleston) who travels to the mythical island and home of the king of the apes. A team of explorers venture inside what they find to be a treacherous island. The story is said to honor the King Kong lore but in a different time period.