

Vogt-Roberts expressed admiration for the design of the monster from the Korean film The Host, and the designers ultimately decided to incorporate the two-legged aspect of its design into their design process. One idea that Berger pitched was a "sawtooth" monster with saw-shaped protrusions around its mouth.

One early concept for the villain monster was a giant amphibious sea serpent inspired by Vietnamese dragons. Kong: The Official Movie NovelizationĪccording to designer Zach Berger, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts did not initially have any specific vision for the villain monster of Kong: Skull Island and simply told the designers to create "something distinct and different" and not use dinosaurs in any way so as not to compete with Peter Jackson's King Kong.

Though Kong was able to handle most of the subterranean creatures, he was eventually faced with a colossal 95-foot-tall Titan Skullcrawler, known as the Skull Devil. In 1973, the Monarch expedition to Skull Island unwittingly drew numerous Skullcrawlers to the surface, which in turn drew the ire of Kong toward the humans who had inadvertently started the crisis. The orphaned Kong took it upon himself to keep the Skullcrawlers' population in check and defend the island's other residents from their savagery. Insatiable carnivorous monsters that dwell deep beneath the surface of Skull Island, the Skullcrawlers were responsible for wiping out the majority of Kong's species long ago, and frequently menaced the other creatures living on the island as well.

Skullcrawlers are giant two-legged reptilian monsters who first appeared in the 2017 Legendary Pictures film Kong: Skull Island.
