![]() ![]() Under duress, a beleaguered senator (Richard Jenkins, wasted in a tiny role) grants Randa his funding, and a team is hastily assembled: Colonel Preston Packard (Samuel L. It is, Randa promises, “the land where God did not finish Creation”-a line borrowed from the opening of Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo. ![]() The speaker who observes how “screwed-up” things have gotten is Bill Randa (John Goodman), a quasi-scientist, quasi-explorer, quasi-conspiracy theorist who has come to DC in search of funding for his latest project: an expedition to Skull Island, a mythical atoll ringed by impenetrable storms that has for the first time been pinpointed by satellite image. After a brief preamble set during World War II, Skull Island settles down in 1973 during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
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