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[ManaByte]

From Peter Jackson's video production diaries:

Art:

Composite (looks nice in motion):

Art:

Composite:

Also, some Kong art:

 

[Mike Works]

So the T-Rex is confirmed to be in the flick??

 

[Duck of Death]

The production diaries are great fun. Kong should be a wonderful ride like the original, and everything I have heard about Kong's stand on the Empire State building is amazing.

And does anyone know when Harry Knowles is actually going to post the Peter Jackson questions? There were some excellent questions for the Lord of the Rings, and the King Kong ones were supposed to be posted in August, but they have yet to be seen. :lol

Anyone know what's going on with these?

 

[ManaByte]

So the T-Rex is confirmed to be in the flick??

Back before they started on Lord of the Rings, when Jackson was working on his original Kong script, Weta Workshop did a cool statue of Kong fighting multiple T-Rexes so I guess it's always been the plan.

They want it to be a remake of the original version and not the 70's one. The spiders are in it as well. Shelob is what they are basing the spider models off of, but they won't look exactly like her.

The production diaries are great fun. Kong should be a wonderful ride like the original, and everything I have heard about Kong's stand on the Empire State building is amazing.

I hope they make it on one of the DVD releases. They should.

 

[Ripclawe]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6594604/site/newsweek

Kingdom Kong
Peter Jackson's 'Lord of the Rings' was one for the ages. Now he's remaking 'King Kong,' the movie that changed his young life. An exclusive visit to the set

Dec. 6 issue - Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens are indisputably different people, but it is tempting sometimes to think of them as three voices in one person's head. One voice is exuberant (Boyens), one hilariously bleak (Walsh) and one eternally steady and focused (Jackson). It's late Friday night at Jackson and Walsh's house on a bay outside Wellington, New Zealand. The couple's children are in bed, and there are no scenes to shoot tomorrow, so they're lingering over dinner with Boyens, who wrote the "Lord of the Rings" movies with them, as well as their latest epic venture, "King Kong." The wine has been poured—more than once.

 

[Dan]

I expect another overblown average-at-best blockbuster that Peter Jackson and fans treat as God's gift to cinema.

I'm far more interested in a R1 DVD release of the original King Kong.

 

[ManaByte]

Before Weta took down their site for a redesign prior to TTT's theatrical release, they had a nice high-res picture of their old Kong statue up there. I can't find the picture itself, but here it is in the background from one of the diaries:

I expect another overblown average-at-best blockbuster that Peter Jackson and fans treat as God's gift to cinema.

I'm far more interested in a R1 DVD release of the original King Kong.

That's coming next Christmas to cash in on the remake's release naturally.

 

[FoneBone]

I'm far more interested in a R1 DVD release of the original King Kong.

I had no idea that it wasn't already out -- I'm genuinely shocked. In any case, a tie-in rerelease is all but certain, unless there's some kind of copyright dispute holding it up (which there may be -- I wouldn't know).

 

[Deleted member 1235]

I expect another overblown average-at-best blockbuster that Peter Jackson and fans treat as God's gift to cinema.

I'm far more interested in a R1 DVD release of the original King Kong.

God life sucks ay? Lets listen to some linkin park.

 

[ManaByte]

I had no idea that it wasn't already out -- I'm genuinely shocked. In any case, a tie-in rerelease is all but certain, unless there's some kind of copyright dispute holding it up (which there may be -- I wouldn't know).

No, just massive restoration. They are digging up all the stuff that they cut out of the movie originally because it scared audiences too much. The famous giant spiders attacking the boat is one scene that'll be on the disc.

 

[Dan]

Cool, I've been fully expecting a release of the original when Jackson's one hits theaters, but I hadn't seen confirmation of that. Nice to hear that there are some big plans for it. I saw it on the big screen a couple months ago so that's held me over, but it's definitely a movie I want to own.

 

[ManaByte]

I hope this is the teaser poster:

 

[shuri]

"Flashback 2: I've lost the damn holocube again"

 

[Willco]

This has the potential to be awesome x infinite!

 

[Lhadatt]

"Flashback 2: I've lost the damn holocube again"

:lol

Actually, there was a Flashback 2. Check out Fade to Black on the PSX (there's a PC rev too, but who knows if it will actually work on current versions of Windows).

 

[ManaByte]

That newsweek article is really good:

"What was the question you asked about the possibility of failure?" Jackson says, attempting to steer the talk toward solid ground. Walsh laughs: "It's more than the possibility. It's the inevitability!" Now Jackson laughs. He tries again: "To live the rest of your life trying to top 'Lord of the Rings' would be a foolish and unsatisfying thing to do. So you set your sights on making a thoroughly entertaining movie so that people are not disappointed. It is highly unlikely 'King Kong' will ever make more money than 'Lord of the Rings'." Boyens can't stand all this levelheadedness another second. She leans forward. "Hello?" she says. "For the record, 'Kong' is going to kick 'Lord of the Rings' ' a--! It will!" Jackson and Walsh look at her fondly. Then, virtually in unison, they say, "That's the wine talking."

Jackson, Walsh, Boyens and Watts met Wray in New York after the Oscars. The director videotaped her briefly, and everyone remembers how Wray, 96, instantly transformed into a movie star, tilting her head and looking beautiful. "I thought, 'My God, I'm actually filming Fay Wray'," says Jackson. Wray died five months later. "Pete was devastated," says Boyens. "He was in love with her." She smiles. "While he was filming Fay, I said to Fran, 'Uh-oh, get the camera off him—he's gone geek'."

Everyone slumps down onto couches, and after prompting from Boyens, Jackson does something unexpected. He plays an "animatic"—an animated version of a scene made for planning purposes—of the last nine minutes of his movie. In other words: Kong's final stand atop the Empire State, and his fall. The animation is no-frills. The score is a patchwork. And yet the sequence, far different from the original in its choreography and emotional depth, is stunning. Even the sound of biplanes sputtering toward the gorilla is heartbreaking, because you know that Kong is not a villain—and you know what's coming. After the sequence ends, nobody talks. Then Walsh, ordinarily that funny, bleak voice in the head, speaks up. "People always ask Pete, 'Why do you want to remake 'King Kong'?" she says. "That's why."

 

[Manabanana]

Rarrrrrr