Colin Hanks credited as playing...
Preston
- Preston: He was right. There is still some mystery left in this world, and we can all have a piece of it for the price of an admission ticket.
- Jack Driscoll: That's the thing you come to learn about Carl, his undying ability to destroy the things he loves.
- Carl Denham: Fay's a size four.
- Preston: Yes, she is, but she's doing a picture with RKO.
- Carl Denham: Cooper, huh? I might've known.
- [Carl and Preston sit at a table reading notes; they look up as Hayes enters]
- Hayes: If someone were to tell you this ship was headed for Singapore... what would you say?
- Lumpy the Cook: [enters holding a wooden carving] I would say they're full of it, Mr. Hayes.
- [shrugs]
- Lumpy the Cook: Well, we turned southwest last night.
- Carl Denham: [stands up] Gentlemen, please. We're not looking for trouble.
- Jimmy: No.
- [enters and faces Carl]
- Jimmy: You're looking for something else.
- Carl Denham: [nods] Yes, we are. We're going to find Skull Island. Find it, film it, show it to the world. For 25 cents, you get to see the last blank space on the map.
- Lumpy the Cook: I wouldn't be so sure of that.
- Preston: What do you mean?
- Lumpy the Cook: Seven years ago, me and Mr. Hayes were working our passage on a Norwegian bark.
- Hayes: Picked up a castaway. Found him in the water. He'd been drifting for days.
- Lumpy the Cook: His ship had run aground on an island way west of Sumatra. An island hidden in fog. He spoke of a huge wall built so long ago, no one knew who'd made it. A wall a hundred foot high, as strong today as it was ages ago.
- Preston: Why'd they build the wall?
- [Lumpy and Hayes look to each other]
- Lumpy the Cook: Well, the castaway, he spoke of a creature neither beast nor man, but something monstrous, living behind that wall.
- Carl Denham: [scoffs] A lion or a tiger. A man-eater. That's how *all* these stories start.
- Preston: What else did he say?
- Lumpy the Cook: Nothing. We found him the next morning, he'd stuck a knife through his heart.
- Carl Denham: [laughing] Mmm-hmm. Sorry, fellas. You'll have to do better than that.
- [Preston stands up; he and Carl grab their notes]
- Carl Denham: Monsters belong in B movies.
- Hayes: If you find this place, if you go ashore with your friends and your cameras... you won't come back. Just as long as you understand that.
- [Carl sighs as he and Preston leave]
- [Carl and Preston are in a taxi]
- Preston: Red Label, eighty percent proof, to be packed in a crate marked "lemonade."
- Carl Denham: You got it. Tell Maureen she doesn't have six hours to put on her face. If she wants to be in this picture, she's gotta be on that boat.
- Preston: She doesn't wanna *be* in this picture.
- [Carl looks shocked]
- Preston: Maureen pulled out.
- Carl Denham: She pulled out?
- Preston: *Yesterday*. I told you.
- Carl Denham: You said we were shooting in Singapore, right? That's what you *told* her.
- Preston: Yeah, but we're not shooting in Singapore.
- Carl Denham: God damn it, Preston, all you had to do was look her in the eye and lie. I got to get to a phone, talk to Harlow's people.
- Preston: She's unavailable.
- Carl Denham: Myma Loy? Clara Bow? Mae West?
- Preston: [scoffs] You'll never get *her* into a size four. You gotta get a girl that'll fit into Maureen's costumes.
- Carl Denham: [sighs, then points at Preston] Fay's a size four.
- Preston: Yes, she is, but she's doing a picture with RKO.
- Carl Denham: Cooper, huh? I might have known.