



The group is soon joined by "anti-war" photographer Mason Weaver, who is assigned to take pictures of the expedition, when in reality, she plans to expose it as the covert military operation she believes it to be. Randa also recruits the Sky Devils, a helicopter squadron led by Lieutenant Colonel Preston Packard and prominently made up of his right-hand, Major Jack Chapman and Captain Earl Cole to escort them to the island. In 1973, as the Vietnam War dies down, former British Special Air Service Captain James Conrad is hired by government agent Bill Randa to guide an expedition to map out a mysterious uncharted region in the Pacific dubbed " Skull Island", which has never been mapped due to perpetual storms surrounding it. He encounters a Japanese pilot on the beach and fights him, but as they struggle, they are interrupted when the silhouette of a massive creature suddenly appears and looms over the two. In 1944, an American pilot falls out of his damaged P-51 Mustang.
