Megaprimatus Kong is going to tell his side of the story because Fox Animation has set Christian Magalhaes and Bob Snow to write a modern day twist on the King Kong script by Mike Weber.
Well, it will be animated feature and will tell the legend set in contemporary time from the position that affords a broad overall view of the ape. Extra!
In the original 1933’s film, the giant gorilla name was Kong, a name given by the inhabitants of Skull Island in the Pacific Ocean, where Kong lives along with other diapsid reptiles including a plesiosaur, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs. An American film crew, led by guy named Carl Denham, captures Kong and takes him to NYC to be exhibited as the “Eighth Wonder of the World”.
Magalhaes and Snow also penned a pretty solid script The Murder of a Cat; a hilarious mystery story about a obstinate, irritable, socially-awkward male trying to solve the mystery of who killed his pet. According to that it could be another job well done.
Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps is producing alongside Radar Pictures.
Tragic, monster adventure film of Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace aroused several sequels, spinoffs and prequels, such as Toho Studios’ King Kong vs. Godzilla and, most recently, Peter Jackson’s Academy Award-winning adaptation.
The character is attached to animation, either as he appeared in the 1960s children’s anime The King Kong Show, from Rankin/Bass and Toei Animation, plus the 2000-2001 Kong: The Animated Series, from BKN International.
Check out the trailer for the story from the previous Jackson’s version, the tale of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow very sensitive on King Kong. And stay tuned, of course.
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King Kong, Trailer 2005
