Usually, in anything Kong-related, the female leads are relegated to screaming, running, being offered up as sacrifices, and getting scooped up into giant furry hands (and, in the case of King Kong ‘76 star Jessica Lange, getting smacked around by a giant pair of mechanical hands helmed by Italian technicians). But Kong: Skull Island’s Brie Larson was, as The A.V. Club’s A.A. Dowd put it, “a touch less damsel-in-distress” than her predecessors, and an upcoming TV project reported in Deadline is hoping to take that trend even further with a “female-led, multi-cultural ensemble” series set in the Kong universe.