Peter Jackson's King Kong!

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Adrien Brody Also Joins Jackson's King Kong
Source: Variety Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Adrien Brody (The Pianist) is in talks with Universal Pictures to join the cast of Peter Jackson's King Kong, says Variety.

The Oscar winner has been offered the role of Jack Driscoll, a former World War I fighter pilot who is the love interest for archaeologist Ann Darrow, to be played by Naomi Watts.

On Monday, the studio announced that Jack Black will play showman Carl Denham who brings the giant gorilla to New York City from Skull Island.

Filling the Driscoll role is the last major casting to be done for the film, adds the trade. In the 1933 original, Driscoll spends much of the film trying to rescue Ann Darrow from Kong after the ape takes a liking to the beauty.

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Peter Jackson Talks King Kong
Source: Entertainment Weekly Monday, April 26, 2004

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly includes an interview with "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy director Peter Jackson talking about his upcoming adaptation of King Kong. Naomi Watts will play the big ape's love object, Ann Darrow. Adrien Brody will play Darrow's boyfriend, former WWII pilot Jack Driscoll, and Jack Black will be blustery adventurer Carl Denham, who imports Kong to Manhattan.

"We are not reinventing it," says Jackson referring to the 1933 original film. "Our story follows the same structure. It starts in New York, goes to Skull Island, and there's dinosaurs on the island. Then it comes back to New York and there's the Empire State Building and the biplanes and the whole thing."

He says that one thing they're trying to do that the original didn't is to make it more "emotionally truthful. I put that ahead of anything else, including technology and the realism of the effects," he adds.

"Everybody's image of 'King Kong' is that it's this amazing beauty-and-the-beast love story. And when you look at the original film, there is as sense that Kong is feeling an attraction toward Ann-probably the first empathy he's felt in his life toward another living creature. But Ann is not giving him a thing. She just looks at him as an object of horror the entire time. She screams at him, she's terrified. Her relationship with Kong doesn't go beyond that. We're having a lot of fun making it more psychologically real."

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Andy Serkis is King Kong!
Source: The Hollywood Reporter Friday, June 11, 2004

Andy Serkis, who brought to life Gollum's movements and voice in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, is reuniting with Peter Jackson to become the man behind the monster in Universal Pictures' King Kong.

Like he did for Gollum, Serkis will provide motion capture reference for the character of Kong, who will eventually be realized as a completely computer-generated creature.

Serkis also has been cast as Lumpy the cook, a member of the crew of the Venture, the tramp steamer that sails to Skull Island.

"I expect this time round will be a very different experience for both Andy and myself as we'll actually get to shoot extended drama sequences together," Jackson said. "It will be a little weird seeing Andy out of his Gollum gimp suit -- and I hope we can both make the adjustment!"

Commenting on Kong himself, Jackson said: "While Andy will provide very valuable onset reference, this doesn't mean we will be softening Kong by attempting to humanize him. The power of the story lies in the fact that this is a savage beast from a hostile environment, and we don't intend to compromise that."

Serkis joins Naomi Watts, Jack Black and Adrien Brody in the cast. Jackson and his "Rings" colleagues, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, are writing, with Jackson and Walsh also producing.

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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 18:09 schreef Dutch_Courage het volgende:
Ik denk dat deze film gaat floppen. Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat dit thema een groot publiek aanspreekt.

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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 19:33 schreef Laton het volgende:
Toch jammer..was erg benieuwd wat hij na lotr zou gaan doen..wordt het een of andere enorme aap die new york in elkaar gaat stampen...:'(

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Op maandag 16 augustus 2004 17:48 schreef Patch het volgende:
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Op dinsdag 17 augustus 2004 19:05 schreef kinky_queen het volgende:
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Op dinsdag 17 augustus 2004 18:44 schreef Skull-splitter het volgende:

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*mompelt iets over diepere lagen etc*

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Op woensdag 18 augustus 2004 05:09 schreef kinky_queen het volgende:
Wow, het schijnt nog een remake te zijn ook!!

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Op woensdag 18 augustus 2004 10:36 schreef JooB het volgende:
Uit 1933 toch?

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Op donderdag 19 augustus 2004 16:02 schreef JooB het volgende:
King Kong vs Dinosaurus...klassieke fight-scene!

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Peter Jackson threw open the doors of his Wellington studios last week to give roughly 200 people a sneak peek at footage of King Kong, says Variety. Just don't ask any of that privileged group about what they saw.

All guests, which included reps from exhibitors, international distrib UIP and a Universal delegation led by vice chairman Marc Shmuger, were obliged to sign confidentiality agreements. And no mobile phones were allowed. Jackson screened 18 minutes of footage of the $160 million remake, showing off his Weta digital workshop and lavish sound mixing facility.

Displaying some of the miniatures, he explained how he told his tech crew the miniature forest had to show the effect of wind rippling the branches and leaves as the big ape lumbers through it -- apparently a feat never pulled off before. The director admitted to nerves as he introduced the footage, noting it hadn't been seen by anyone outside his team. And the reaction was? "Fantastic. I haven't felt like that since I saw 'Jurassic Park,' '' one attendee said.

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Op zaterdag 9 april 2005 15:50 schreef Hare het volgende:

Verder ziet het er idd erg goed uit. Zit wel te wachten op de eerste pic van de aap

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Op zaterdag 9 april 2005 18:01 schreef Morpheus2002 het volgende:
w00t is dat echt Peter Jackson? Hoe f*cking snel is die gast wel niet afgevallen?

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Op maandag 11 april 2005 13:25 schreef MadGuy het volgende:
Van Kong is er nog niet veel. Ik verwacht daar ook nog niet veel van te zien, eerlijk gezegd. Shelob werd ook pas op het allerlaatst vrijgegeven, net als de uiteindelijke Gollum.