“ | What you're lookin' at is a monster from some by-gone era. It's time to show Kong that Man is king! | „ |
~ Col. Preston Packard |
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Colonel Preston Packard is the secondary antagonist of the second installment in Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse 2017 kaiju film Kong: Skull Island. He is a veteran soldier and leads the military group, the Sky Devils Helicopter Squadron to explore Skull Island, an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean and is now ramarak's second in command.
He is portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.
Role[]
Kong: Skull Island[]
Packard was in Vietnam when contacted by William "Bill" Randa, a Monarch representative to be the military escort to an unexplored island in the South Pacific, this when seeing the opportunity accepts the mission and prepares with his team.
Packard heads towards the helicopter crash site that had the seismic bombs and where Chapman found himself, after a long walk for the search of Chapman are attacked by a giant spider, which kills one of the members, and later they manage to reunite with James Conrad and the remaining survivors. Valley of the Dead, where they were attacked by one of the Skullcrawlers, after the confrontation, during a heated discussion, and confirm Chapman had been devoured by the same Skullcrawler from earlier, Packard decides to go for those bombs with his team regardless and hunt down Kong.
Death[]
After having the seismic bombs, he ambushes Kong, who was reunited with James Conrad, later this activates the bombs attracting his attention, Conrad to seeing this decides to go towards Packard to stop it, Kong goes towards the place of the ambush had Packard who had previously thrown oil in the lake, after a face-to-face confrontation, Packard sets fire to the lake, thus burning and injuring Kong, who falls unconscious on the ground.
Putting explosive charges and about to detonate them, Conrad appears and confronts Packard telling him that there were more things to worry about and Kong was not the threat, but after a brief discussion, the largest Skullcrawler, Ramarak, appears. Conrad with the other soldiers and the survivors run from the creature, while Packard stays behind, remaining determined to finish Kong, who has just awakened, off in a suicide bombing. Before he can detonate the explosives to kill off Kong, the giant ape crushes Packard to death with his fist.
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External Links[]
- Preston Packard on the Villains Wiki
- Preston Packard on the Gojipedia Wiki