{"id":70505,"date":"2015-01-08T10:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T10:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=70505"},"modified":"2015-01-08T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T10:06:45","slug":"kong-skull-island-casts-a-birdman-to-join-tom-hiddleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/kong-skull-island-casts-a-birdman-to-join-tom-hiddleston\/","title":{"rendered":"Kong: Skull Island casts a Birdman to join Tom Hiddleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70507\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birdman-Michael-Keaton.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70507\" alt=\"Michael Keaton in Birdman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birdman-Michael-Keaton.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birdman-Michael-Keaton.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birdman-Michael-Keaton-600x324.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birdman-Michael-Keaton-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Keaton in Birdman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <strong><em>Skull Island<\/em><\/strong> movie already has a strong cast with Tom Hiddleston and JK Simmons having signed on. Now, it looks like it&#8217;s getting even better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/01\/michael-keaton-legendary-kong-skull-island-1201343615\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that Michael Keaton is &#8220;finalising a deal&#8221; to star in the Legendary Pictures monster movie. It&#8217;s exciting to see the movie go after such strong actors, with both Keaton and Simmons enjoying a lot of awards buzz for <strong><em>Birdman<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Whiplash<\/em><\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is known about <strong><em>Kong: Skull Island<\/em><\/strong>, beyond its promise &#8221;\u00a0to\u00a0fully immerse audiences in the mysterious and dangerous home of the iconic\u00a0ape as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kong: Skull Island<\/em> is released 10 March 2017. You can keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3323\/s\/scifinow-issue-101\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Skull Island movie keeps up the excellent casting with one of our favourite actors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":70506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4227,3930],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/King-Kong-movie.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}