Peter! Jackson! King! Kong!

[JohnL]

>BTW Dolph, your last movies sucked big time. Do yourself a favour and
>say "No" to any movie directed by Anthony Hickox. Please.

*EVERYONE* should say "No" to any movie directed by Anthony Hickox. The guy has never made a single good movie. How he keeps getting work is beyond me. Full Eclipse is the best thing he's done and even that wasn't that great.

I just hope Jackson has the sense to hire Rick Baker to create kong no matter what method is used. Nobody does better apes than Baker.

[Squishy]

I recall reading here that the giant "rock-tick" thing, seen chasing the little runt in the cavern in "The Black Scorpion" was one of those bugs from the original "Kong"s deleted scene.

Also out there is an online copy of Jackson's 1996 script for "Kong." (There's also a downloadable text version, but you're have to find it yourself.)  It may not be the one he uses in the end, but it certainly has some changes! Quite a few elements resemble the deLaurentiis version. In fact, I'd say it's a very good chance this script WON'T be the one used, because there's a lot of unworkable stuff in it. But it's a fun read. Here's a couple spoils:

WARNING! SPOILERS!



(1) Ann becomes Kong's willing hostage in New York. She's as obsessed with Kong as Kong is with her. She even spurns Jack's attempt to rescue her.
(2) Jack is a fighter pilot during the Great War, experiencing a horrific dogfight in the prologue. (This foreshadows, of course, what he does in the climax, and it isn't climbing stairs. You won't believe what happens.)
(3) Denham doesn't say the line at the end because he's deader'n hell Grodin-style. But it does get said.
(4) The "lullabye" bit from "Mighty Joe Young" is ripped off.

[Squishy]

Oh, and Theater Hopper does it again. The look in Jackson's eyes in the close-up is hilarious.

...in retrospect, and in light of the "holiday" that just passed, I should've named this thread "Peter Jackson's Return of the Kong."

[Cullen]

I was staggeringly unimpressed by it, almost beyond belief.  Sucked the wind right out of my sails.  In fact, seeing the words "First Draft" was the only consolation I got.

For anyone who cares, here are my problems:

* What we have here is the umptineth hero/heroine-don't-like-each-other-at-first-but-fall-in-love-in-the-end.  Granted, it goes in line with the original a little, but the original dropped it by the time the reached the island.  This we have to suffer the entire script to get through.

*Action Ann was to be expected, but Denham the ass was horribly, horribly wrong.  It's so unnecessary, it makes me want to cry.  (Denham was one of my favorite characters in the original - to see him so misused...)

*The whole script is too damn busy.  From fight with the soldiers to the crocodiles to the island itself.  Gah.

*Look, if Ann wants to be with the ape, let her.  It's just that simple.

I could get really bitter about the script, toss a hissy fit (more than I already have), except the whole thing seems so very wrong to me.  So very Hollywood, say.  I believe Jackson has no intention of using any part of this script, that this was written for the express purpose of being green lit (as I recall, this was pre Rings )  A lot of the script seemed tounge in cheek to me.  (For instance, the PG-13 line when Kong first appears.)

Now, assuming the script was made,  how much y' wanna bet that the Old Woman at the end would be played by Fay Wray?
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Post Edited (04-02-03 10:04)

[Mitch McAfee]

I just hope PJ improves his style in directing & staging the action scenes.

For god sakes man, tie the friggin camera down & pull it back 30 feet.  We don't want (or need) extreme close ups & overly excessive camera moves.

For me the biggest dissapointment in LOTR was the extremely lazy direction during the action sequences. Any hack can shake the camera to heighten the excitment. Well staged action is the key me thinks.

[Evan3]

Hallelujah Dr. at least you have good taste in women.

[Phantom 187]

LOOK HERE ! Peter Jackson's style is the free floater camera shot and the extreme close up so don't freggin post about it being wrong because they are his distinguishing shots.