There are reptile monsters in Kong: Skull Island that are partly based on Cubone. This is because the new movie’s director, Jordan Vogt-Roberts, is apparently a huge fan of the Lonely Pokémon. Here’s what he had to say about his Pokémon-inspired creatures:
“And we’re looking at this creature, and we’re like, ‘What does this remind us of?’ Because I was, like, ‘I want it to have this white face – this weird, bone-white face, and this black, scaly skin.’ Both he and I were staring at it, and we had this weird moment where we were like, ‘Oh my God.’ We realised that we’d created this unintentional fusion of all of our nerdy childhood influences.
“Because I love Cubone. Cubone has the saddest story of him wearing his dead mother’s skull on his face.”
Source: Den of Geek
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