Joe Cornish hasn’t directed anything since Attack the Block, though he did co-write Steven Spielberg‘s The Adventures of Tintin with Edgar Wright and Steven Moffat and then went on to work with Wright on Ant-Man until the two stepped away from the project. He is said to be attached to Universal’s Section 6, a film about the formation of MI6, but now another movie at Universal has caught his eye, the revealed King Kong: Skull Island movie Legendary has already dated for November 4, 2016.
Deadline has the news saying Legendary has offered Cornish the gig, but no indication yet as to whether he’ll take it, but the site does reveal Max Borenstein, who wrote the recent Godzilla remake, will pen the script.
When the project was announced by Legendary they said previous King Kong films have touched on Skull Island but this new film will stay and explore the “mysterious and dangerous place”, offering “the opportunity to take audiences deeper inside this rich world with a style and scope that parallels other Legendary productions.”
That “paralleling of other Legendary productions” part makes it seem pretty obvious the goal is a King Kong vs. Godzilla movie, particularly considering the Godzilla 2.
