Rexie, I think Fay Wray was the original star or director of the very first King Kong film.
The first one was really good, and unless they remake the original script, I doubt it will live up to par.
Did you hear they are going to remake Footlose? I don't understand why these directors can't leave the classics alone. In fifty years, is someone going to remake Star Wars? It just doesn't work for me, I don't like it one bit.
Re: Jackson Takes On King Kong
Originally posted by Tex
[Im sure its going to be way better than that other crappy 80s remake where King Kong climbed the World Trade Center.
Good thing The Empire State Building is still standing 😉 [/B]
I thought King Kong climbed the Empire State Building, not the World Trade Centre.
At Wonderfest in Louisville this year I shook (both!) hands of the guy who saw "King Kong" (1933) 90 times and became the effects guy behind "Mighty Joe Young", "ason and the Argonauts" , "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" and other classics: Ray Harryhausen! Ray was Peter Jackson's guest for 11 days in NZ and toured WETA, etc.... he told an appreciative crowd at WONDERFEST that he looks forward to the remake as well, since Peter's making it true to the original. The first script draft is out there on the web. I found it at ABOYD dot com.
Ray told us that if he'd seen the 1976 "KONG" first, he'd have become a plumber!
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KING KONG SCRIPT
Someone gave me a copy of the script and it is amazing, it's also online if you look deep enough. It's not a 20 story ape. It actually a silver back gorilla. And it somewhere in the 35 -40 foot range. I even saw the early sculpture, with him fighting 3 allosaurus'. The log scene with the giant bugs in the crevice that was cut from the original has been reinstated. It was awesome. I am looking forward tot his flick only second to Return of the King.
jackson is the only person that can do this film properly.the sript is ace ,close to the original but enoughe changes to make it work for a modern audience.why they go to kong island,wwhy the island has not been discovered,and the script even has a micky take of jurasic park.carl denam says to sailers after seeing first dinosaurs on the island "look boys these things are suppossed to be exstinc why don't we invite people here after we turn it into some kind of theame park we'll all be millionaires boys i'll share it with all of you"this line is also a refrence to the beach scene in the original."kong the eigth wonder of the world up in lights on broadway well be millionaires i'll share it with you all boys" starts filming 2004 in newzealand set in 1930's should be some great affects as long as jackson realises that kong is not any ordinary silver back but a monster version of one .