DeVito sued Legendary and Warner in 2016 because he thought the upcoming movie was based on his work and a failed TV pitch
People like to trash Peter Jackson's King Kong, but I don't think there will ever be a better adaptation of the original story/movie than that one.
Weta's work was amazing. Their first book was about Skull Island. It's rare and super expensive today but you can read it here:
https://archive.org/details/wetaworkshoppres0000unse/mode/2up
You have to borrow a digital copy which locks out everybody else for one hour (it's the option at the top). Should one be inclined to commit internet crimes, one hour is more than enough to open the book in Edge, view it in full screen and two page display,
zoom in so it pulls the highest quality images, right click on the images (both left and right pages) and download every individual page