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Peter Jackson remaking King Kong
sigh71 writes "Stuff.co.nz is running a story on Peter Jacksons next big project, remaking the original King Kong. To be written by the same guys who wrote the scripts for Lord of the Rings. Google for more info."
From the Beeb:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/290
It's going to be interesting to see Jackson's interperetation of this. On one hand, I feel like King Kong's been done to death. On the other, I *know* there's no such thing as too much Godzilla. Perhaps Jackson will make it so there's no such thing as too much Kong.
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anyone who is a fan of pj know that this is a lifelong dream of his. one which he very much deserves to have realized, after all the entertainment he has brought to the world.
BTW, this has been a long time in the works. LOTR origianlly started out as a joint development project between miramax and universal, each would share the costs of developing two films with pj, and relase one under each of their names. the two original projects were king kong & LOTR.
but when LOTR grew to two films and the costs rose they lost interest. and miramax (kindly) gave permission to take LoTR to another studio. ultimatley new line actually encourgaed peter to extend it to three films, thankfully leading to the historic project that it became.
the only downside was that as LOTR grew to a 7+ year project King Kong was put of that much longer.
althought there are a glut of remakes, i have complete confidence that this on ewill e b as special and unique as all of peters projects.
PS LOTR was co-written by pj himself, phillipa boyens, & fran walsh...
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Actually:
"The original plan was to film "The Hobbit" starring Warwick Davis. But when Miramax balked at the $75 million dollar price tag Peter Jackson took it to New Line which gave him nearly $300 million to make the trilogy"
-- derby
Actually, Bilbo wouldn't look too different in 'The Hobbit' since he stopped aging (or aged extremely slowly) when he took possesion of the ring. IIRC he only started aging again once he had given the ring to Frodo and then rather more rapidly once the ring was destroyed.
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