Over nine months ago, it was announced that KONG: SKULL ISLAND director Jordan Vogt-Roberts was teaming up with teaming with CREED / BLACK PANTHER's Michael B. Jordan to develop a new creature feature that would be set in Vogt-Roberts' hometown of
Detroit. Vogt-Roberts maintains deep ties to the Motor City, repeatedly bringing production to it any way he can, and also co-founded the improv group The Detroit Creativity Project to help the city’s young people.
It has taken a while to learn any more information on the project, and during that time Vogt-Roberts directed the pilot episode of the upcoming AMC series The Walking Dead: World Beyond, but now his creature feature has taken an important step forward. It has found a writer who can translate this idea Vogt-Roberts has into a screenplay.
That writer is Rodney Barnes, whose previous credits include the TV shows The Boondocks, My Wife and Kids, Everybody Hates Chris, Runaways, and American Gods. Barnes has also written comic books featuring the likes of Falcon and Lando Calrissian.
All details on this project are being kept under wraps, the fact that it's a creature feature set in Detroit is really all we know about it.
Jordan and Alana Mayo are producing the film under their Outlier Society banner. New Regency is also producing.
I found KONG: SKULL ISLAND to be highly entertaining, so I'm totally on board for another Vogt-Roberts monster movie.