{"id":78850,"date":"2015-08-21T09:43:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T08:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=78850"},"modified":"2015-08-21T09:43:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T08:43:43","slug":"kong-skull-island-casts-fantastic-four-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/kong-skull-island-casts-fantastic-four-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Kong: Skull Island casts Fantastic Four star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-78854\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toby-Kebbell-616x347.jpg\" alt=\"Toby-Kebbell\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toby-Kebbell.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toby-Kebbell-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toby-Kebbell-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toby-Kebbell-510x286.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/>While rumours swirl about John C Reilly and Samuel L Jackson stepping into the roles previously occupied by Michael Keaton and JK Simmons, <strong><em>Kong: Skull Island<\/em><\/strong> has gone ahead and cast another actor entirely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/fantastic-four-actor-toby-kebbell-816450\">THR<\/a> reports that the excellent Toby Kebbell is the latest name to jump on board the Legendary monster movie directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. The star of <strong><em>Fantastic Four<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes<\/em><\/strong> will join Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Corey Hawkins, making a very strong cast even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#8217;t any details about Kebbell&#8217;s role at the moment, but it&#8217;s another big project for the actor, who&#8217;s also appearing in Duncan Jones&#8217;\u00a0<strong><em>Warcraft<\/em><\/strong>, Stephen Gaghan&#8217;s <strong><em>Gold<\/em><\/strong>, Timur Bekmambetov&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em>Ben-Hur<\/em><\/strong> and JA Bayona&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><em>A Monster Calls<\/em><\/strong>. We&#8217;re very big fans of Kebbell&#8217;s, and any Kebbell casting news is good news.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><em>Kong: Skull Island<\/em> will be released on 10 March 2017 in the UK. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3735\/s\/scifinow-issue-109\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another excellent actor, with prior ape experience, leaps onto the boat for Kong: Skull Island<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":78855,"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],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/King-Kong1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78850"}],"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=78850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}