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31st October 2005: King Kong: Movie Poster: |
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Thursday 27th October 2005: Movie News: King Kong: |
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Posted by: Gary Gray:
The running time for King Kong
has been revealed today, and it's a whopping
three hours long, much the same as one of the
LOTR's. The budget has also shot up as well
to an incredible $207 million!
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Monday 17th October 2005: Movie News: King Kong: |
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Posted by: Gary Gray:
The shock news that Howard Shore has left the production of King Kong and the score will now be done by James Newton Howard. And if this doesn't get you worried when the movie comes out in just EIGHT weeks, then I'd be very surprised! Peter Jackson made an announcement about the news "I have greatly enjoyed my collaborations with Howard Shore, whose musical themes made immeasurable contributions to 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy. During the last few weeks, Howard and I came to realize that we had differing creative aspirations for the score of 'King Kong.' Rather than waste time arguing with a friend and trying to unify our points of view, we decided amicably to let another composer score the film. I'm looking forward to working with James Newton Howard, a composer whose work I've long admired, and I thank Howard Shore, whose talent is surpassed only by his graciousness."
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Wednesday 17th August 2005: King Kong Update:
The following promo images for King Kong were just received!
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28th June 2005: King Kong: Movie Trailer: |
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| 21st March 2005: Movie News: King Kong: |
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News Item Posted by: Gary Gray
Well that's it, it's all over. No not the movie, just the principal photography for King Kong. To celebrate the completion of this phase Peter Jackson threw a small party on the set, well if you call 1000 people attending a small party!
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| 9th March 2005: Movie News: King Kong: |
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Want a look at what King Kong is going to act like in Peter Jackson's upcoming remake? Sure you do, well you do if you want to see some green screen action of Andy Serkis and Naomi Watts Click Here to view the latest production diary from the filming.
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| 7th March 2005: Movie News: King Kong: |
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News Item Posted by: Gary Gray
The hype looks ready to really get rolling on King Kong with the news that Universal flew 200 film distributors from all round the world to watch the first screening of King Kong! Now that doesn't mean the movie is finished by any means, no it looks more like they are going to work hard to get them behind the movie so that it's a massive box office success. Peter Jackson had this to say about the news "We are still filming it. The film's coming out in December and believe me, there's a huge amount of work still to be done." Naturally none of them were/are allowed to talk about what they say in any shape or form whatsoever so get any thoughts you may have of phoning up for local feal pit for gossip out of your mind!
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1st February 2005: King Kong Update:
The following promo images for King Kong were just received!
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Friday
28th January 2005: King Kong:
Peter Jackson's King Kong has resumed filming in New York. The
production diary has resumed over at kongisking.net..."New
York City circa 1933 comes alive in present day New Zealand!
The first production diary of 2005 gets us knee deep into the
NYC set! The extras walk the streets, steam flows out of the
sewers; the depression is in full swing! Grant Major and Peter
Jackson show every corner and alley of the set, including some
of the work that is still ongoing, even with the cameras rolling
elsewhere. We get to see some 'mood scenes' being shot, including
protesters."
Monday
17th January 2005: King Kong:
A couple of production sketches from King Kong can be seen over
at theonering.net.
Monday
20th December 2004: King Kong:
Director Peter Jackson's latest production diary is up at the
rather wonderful Kong is Kong fansite. And the latest diary
is really worth a watch too. Click
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8th December 2004: King Kong:
For up to the minute reports from the set of Peter Jackson's
King King check out KongisKing.net
complete with pics and production diaries.
Monday
29th November 2004: King Kong update:
Conceptual art and a set report from Peter Jackson's King Kong
can be seen over at Newsweek.
Monday
16th August
2004: King Kong Update:
The British opera singer Lobo Chan is to appear in Peter
Jackson's King Kong as a character called Choy.
Thursday
29th July
2004: King Kong Update:
Jamie Bell and Evan Parke have been added to the cast of Peter
Jackson's King Kong remake. Billy Elliott's Bell is to play
a young cameraman who accompanies Jack Black's character, a
filmmaker, on a quest to find the giant gorilla, while Parke
portrays the first mate on the Venture, the tramp steamer that
sails to Skull Island. He ends up heading the rescue team sent
into the jungle to save Watts' character.
Thursday
1st July
2004: King Kong Update:
Colin Hanks has been added to the cast of Peter Jackson's King
Kong remake as assistant to director Carl Denham played by Jack
Black. Kyle Chandler has also been approached to play a 1930s
B-movie actor.
Thursday
24th June
2004: King Kong Update:
Thomas Kretschmann, of The Pianist fame, has joined Peter Jackson's
adaptation of King Kong.
Friday
11th June
2004: King Kong Update:
Andy Serkis will officialy star as King Kong in Peter Jackson's
remake, once again performing for the motion capture much like
he did with Gollum in Lord of the Rings. Serkis will get a chance
to get his face onscreen for a change by also appearing in the
film as Lumpy the cook, a member of the crew of the Venture.
Tuesday
27th April 2004: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson has revealed some more info on King Kong "We
are not reinventing it. Our story follows the same structure.
It satrts 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. 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."
Wednesday
31st March 2004: King Kong Update:
Casting rumour on King Kong today with Adrien Brody being mentioned
for the role of Jack Driscoll, the love interest of Naomi Watts
character. An official announcement is thought to be released
next week.
Tuesday
30th March 2004: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson has announced the other major casting for King
Kong, and it is Jack Black, Black will star as Carl Denham the
adventurer filmmaker trying to make a name for himself in 1933.
Jackson said this about the news "I've been wanting to
work with Jack Black ever since I saw him in High Fidelity.
He's a smart and versatile actor blessed with an abundance of
energy and charm and I'm absolutely thrilled that he is joining
us on 'Kong."
Tuesday
9th March 2004: King Kong Update:
Elijah Wood has revealed in an interview that he has been talking
to Peter Jackson about taking a small role in King Kong.
Tuesday
24th February 2004: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson has been talking about how things are going so
far on King Kong "It's too early to say about cast, apart
from Naomi Watts, who's now confirmed. We need to write for
a few more weeks to establish exactly what type of other characters
we are looking for. I'm hoping there will be suitable roles
for one or two "LOTR" actors. As far as crew go, "LOTR"
veterans include Jan Blenkin and Caro Cunningham, both of whom
are producing "Kong" with me; Andrew Lesnie is on
board as (director of photography); Grant Major is production
designer; Dan Hennah is supervising art director. Both Weta
Workshop, led by Richard Taylor, and Weta Digital have been
at work on "Kong" for some months now. Howard Shore
is doing the music. We are talking to all other crew at the
moment and imagine the majority will be "LOTR" veterans."
Friday
13th February 2004: King Kong Update:
In a recent interview Peter Jackson has revealed that the budget
for King Kong will be a cool $150 million and that for his cameo
appearance in the movie he wants to be "the guy in the
airplane shooting at him."
Tuesday
10th February 2004: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson has been talking about King Kong again "I've
been a fan for years. We want him (King Kong) to be quite real."
Wednesday
28th January 2004: King Kong Update:
Naomi Watts has confirmed this week that she will star in King
Kong "I will sit in the hand of King Kong." Filming
will start in August with a 14th December 2005 release date
being planned for.
Thursday 11th December 2003: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson has been talking about the rumours that King Kong will cost $150 million and he doesn't sound concerned in the slightest "There are six or seven movies in production at the moment that will cost $200 million, so Universal will get it $50 million cheaper than elsewhere." He added that, like the Rings films, he intends to approach the ape movie as if it were actual history, imparting "a reality and a grittiness" to the story. It will be set, he said, in 1933, the year the story first appeared. "I think that's the last time you could expect to go exploring the South Seas and find an uncharted island."
Tuesday 9th December 2003: King Kong Update:
Andy Serkis could link up again with The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson on his King Kong remake. The British actor would play the titular ape, using the same digital technology which was used to capture his performance as Gollum. "There have been talks about it," Serkis revealed. "Nothing's absolutely certain yet, but I'd love to work with Peter again, so hopefully, hopefully. I started dropping my ape movements in towards the end of playing Gollum, you know!"
Monday 8th December 2003: King Kong Update:
Director Peter Jackson is looking at nabbing either George Clooney or Robert De Niro to play lead human Carl Denham, the man responsible for bringing the ape to the civilised world.
Wednesday 3rd December 2003: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson has revealed a few new details about his new King Kong movie. The director, who will start work on his $200 million film in New Zealand next month, said he would be spending most of his time from January working on King Kong, with shooting planned to begin in August. He added that because the film would be set in the 1930s, to create the period it would be easier to shoot about 80 per cent of the film at his Miramar studios. Some of the natural locations, including King Kong's home, Skull Island, would also be shot at the studios. "I'm interested in (King) Kong being quite stylised and the jungles of Skull Island I want to be very over-the-top, like a jungle from hell. I imagine we are going to be more successful
pulling that off in the studio or in a back lot than we are trying to find a beech forest in the South Island." Jackson also confirmed that it looks likely that Naomi Watts will play the lead, Ann Darrow, in the big budget film. To read the full report Click Here.
Thursday 27th November 2003: King Kong Update:
Sir Ian Mckellen has revealed that Peter Jackson has talked to him about a possible role for him in King Kong "He did say he might have something for me to do in King Kong and I hope that's true. It would be lovely."
Wednesday 26th November 2003: King Kong Update:
Word reaches us that Weta Workshop have started some pre production work on King Kong to develop sketches and models of Kong himself and the dinosaurs that will feature in the movie. The movie is still being viewed as a December 14th 2005 release date.
Wednesday 19th November 2003: King Kong Update:
Andy Serkis has been hinting that it may be him as the giant ape himself. Not the man in the suite but that maybe Peter Jackson will be using his magic Gollum techniques where Serkis was motioned captured acting out the role.
Monday 17th November 2003: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson's King Kong project is apparently se to start production in mid-2004 for a December 14, 2005 release.
Wednesday 5th November 2003: King Kong Update:
Naomi Watts has been talking about Peter Jackson’s King Kong project. It was
reported that Watts had been offered the lead role and she confirms that she
has met with Jackson to discuss the part. "I've always admired him, even
before The Lord of the Rings," she says. "And the King Kong story is so
iconic. There's something really simple, beautiful and heartbreaking about
it and he would take it to a whole new level." Universal Pictures is
currently eyeing a December 14, 2005 release date for the tentpole film.
Monday 22nd September 2003: King Kong Update:
Director Peter Jackson is apparently eyeing Naomi Watts to follow in the
footsteps of Fay Wray and become the obsession of the giant ape in King
Kong. Jackson has reportedly offered the lead role to Watts for Universal's
Christmas 2005 film, which will shoot in New Zealand. The star of The Ring
would play Ann Darrow, an American actress who makes a living performing in
Broadway song and dance shows in Depression-era New York.
Tuesday 12th August 2003: King Kong Update:
Word reaches us today that Universal will pay Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens a cool $20 million for King Kong. They are looking at a release date of Christmas 2005 for the movie.
Monday 23rd June 2003: King Kong Update:
Word reaches us today that the release date for King Kong has been set as 14th December 2005.
 Monday 26th May 2003: King Kong Update:
Howard Shore has revealed that he will be creating the score for King Kong ""Peter has asked me to work with him on 'King Kong' and I am looking forward to our further collaboration"
Wednesday 14th May 2003: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson has been talking about King Kong "We can do a complete rewrite. Now that Philippa has joined the team, it's a chance to start over. The basic storyline will be very similar but the scenes, the sequences and the detail will be very different. the flip, smart-arsed tone of our old script. We are better writers now than we were in 1996. This new version will be based on the 1933 movie, but not on our 1996 script. This movie will be so much better than the 1996 film would have been. In hindsight, fate has been kind to us." He also revealed that two thirds of the movie will be set on Skull Island.
Thursday 3rd April 2003: King Kong Update:
Now that Peter Jackson is attached to the new King Kong movie, the rumour
mill has cranked into overdrive. Kate Winslet’s name is being linked with
the project, not for the first time either. Apparently, Jackson is a bit of
a fan. Meanwhile, star of the 1933 original, Fay Wray, has given Jackson’s
film the thumbs up. "I think it is excellent and honorable that Peter
Jackson wants to be true to the original,” she said. “I am proud that he
wants to keep King Kong alive."
Monday 31st March 2003: King Kong Update:
Peter Jackson is to direct King Kong for Universal Pictures. The Lord of the
Rings helmer will begin work on the film immediately following the release
of the third and final installment of his blockbuster trilogy. Jackson will
write the screenplay with his partner Fran Walsh and Lord Of The Rings
co-writer Philippa Boyens. Jackson and Walsh will produce the film under
their WingNut Films banner. Scheduled for worldwide release in 2005, Jackson
will shoot King Kong on location in his native New Zealand. The visual
effects will again be hanlded by his New Zealand-based company Weta, Ltd.
"No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong,” says Jackson.
“I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. It
has been my sustained dream to reinterpret this classic story for a new age.
The story of Kong offers everything that any storyteller could hope for: an
archetypal narrative, thrilling action, resonating emotion and memorable
characters. It has endured for precisely these reasons and I am honored to
be a part of its continuing legacy."
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