The 2017 AD movie Kong: Skull Island was directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and stars Tom Hiddleston as James Conrad, Brie Larson as Mason Weaver, Samuel L. Jackson as Preston Packard, John C. Reilly as Hank Marlow, et al.
The movie is saturated with symbolism, straight out open conspiracy theorizing and subtexts. I was hoping to find the script so that I could quote from it but I will have to loosely paraphrase from metal notes.
To unique features of this, like, 47th version of the Kong story (or whatever it is) is a downplaying of the whole Kong love human woman thing—it is there but not a focus—also, there is not attempt to get Kong off of the island, bring him to the big city, etc.
Now, I can offer my observations and symbolism sleuthing but certainly cannot say if any of it was meant that way by the script writers, director, editor, set designers, etc., etc., etc.
The first scene is set in 1944 AD which numerologically reduces to being equal to 666 since 1+9+4+4=18 and likewise 6+6+6=18.
The premise of the movie is not just Kong but that a secret government agency was established to, essentially, conduct crypto-zoological research. This organization is called “Monarch” and instantly made me think of the claimed “Monarch Trauma Based Mind Control” which is somewhat akin to the CIA’s “MK-Ultra” experiments.
There are even hints to mind control, in a loose manner of speaking, in the form of how a movie/film or photos can influence people as the head of the Monarch group and an “anti-war photographer” (which means that she is admitting to be biased, her name is “Mason”) during the Vietnam war ear to which the movie jumps for the movie’s bulk state as much. Communism also gets a hat tip since the islanders are said to live in peace, sharing everything, etc.
I take Skull Island to be reminiscent of Golgotha aka Calvary which is where Jesus was crucified. Yet, this is not simply due to the term Skull but to the theology of the movie. Within the movie Kong is not a terror to the island’s human inhabitants but is their “Savior” and their “God” as the movie actually states it. Yet, no human sacrifices are offered to Kong, as has been standard in just about every previous King Kong movie.
There are references to the hollow Earth which form a plot point as the island is found to be peppered with huge caverns that are said to serve as proof of the hollow Earth.
This led me to think of the book of Revelation’s references to beasts that proceed forth from the Earth, the sea, the Bottomless Pit, because there are reptilian creatures that live within the hollow Earth. Skull Island is one of the few places where there are actual openings into the hollow Earth.
The reptiles are the movie’s real menaces and Kong protects the human inhabitants from them. Kong is seen battling two of them. They are said to be the small ones and Kong is said to still be growing (even though his head alone is over six feet tall). There is, at least one, larger reptile that had killed Kong’s parents in a styled by-proxy soteriology according to which they gave their lives to have their son be the savior of humanity.
On the esoteric side, there is a lot of Solar and one all seeing eye symbolism. In fact, in one of two scenes it is directly imaged that the Sun is within Kong or Kong is the Sun or some such symbolism as the Sun becomes Kong’s eye or Kong’s becomes the Sun—there is a merging and melding.
Photo from Giza, Egypt 
A military team takes the Monarch researchers to Skull Island and straight away Kong attacks them, in self-defense. They were detonating bombs so as to get seismic readings, which proved the cavernous nature of Skull Island. Yet, they were actually being dropped, unbeknownst to the military, because the head of the Monarch org knew about Kong and wanted to flush him out.
It is a ridiculous scene since all of them approach the island flying in helicopters and could have simply flown away. Yet, in any case, the point was to set up that a subtext with is a Moby Dick-like tale of vengeance. Samuel L. Jackson’s character is Col Preston Packard who becomes fixated on killing Kong since the initial self-defense attack took the lives of some of his men.
In this way, Col Packard is seen be seeking to kill God. The others end up turning on him and defending Kong against his attempts.
There is surely much more to be gleaned from this interesting movie.
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