film The Lego Batman Movie, King Kong (voiced by Seth Green) appears as an inmate of the Phantom Zone. He is among the Phantom Zone inmates that the Joker releases in order to take over Gotham City. During the Joker's campaign, King Kong destroys one of the towers that Batman and the others hide in. With help from Robin, Batgirl, Alfred Pennyworth, and his enemies, Batman is able to defeat King Kong and send him and his fellow Phantom Zone inmates back to the Phantom Zone. In the 2018 film Ready Player One (based on the book of the same name), King Kong appears as one of the hazards of the OASIS racetrack alongside the Tyrannosaurus from the Jurassic Park films. In the film, he is placed at the end of the racetrack near the Empire State Building and it is impossible for the racers to get by him. This prompts the protagonist Wade Watts/"Parzival" to search for a solution in James Halliday's life to a dialogue which urges him to go backwards traveling through the code of the game, in a tunnel which starts at the base of the Statue of Liberty and ends behind King Kong at Central Park where the finish line is. King Kong appears in Space Jam: A New Legacy. He is among the characters in the Warner Bros. Serververse that watches the basketball game between the Tune Squad and the Goon Squad as he is seen sitting near The Iron Giant. When Al-G Rhythm grows to 8 ft. after Dom James defected to the Tune Squad, he quoted "I am the game. King Kong ain’t got nothing on me". King Kong took offense to that. When the Tune Squad beats the Goon Squad in the basketball game, King Kong and the Iron Giant fist-bump each other. Books See also King Kong – 2005 remake of the original film Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie References Further reading Erb, Cynthia Marie, 1998, Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture, Wayne State University Press, . McCutcheon, Camillel, "Review of Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong," Journal of Popular Culture 39.4 (August, 2006), 687–688. Megalania Dinosaurs In Popular Culture – King Kong. King Kong (franchise) Films in popular culture