King Kong (1996 film)

King Kong is an unmade King Kong American film and the precursor to the 2005 film.

History

While directing his first Hollywood film The Frighteners, Peter Jackson was approached by Universal Pictures approached Jackson about making a remake of King Kong, an offer which Jackson immediately accepted as he has said that the original King Kong is his favorite movie. Jackson and his wife Fran Walsh then began writing the first draft of the screenplay in April 1996 with a pre-production period of ten months following in suite. During the pre-production phase, Weta Workshop co-founder Richard Taylor created a bronze maquette of King Kong fighting three Tyrannosaurus rex. The next day after the maquette was completed, Jackson suggested to Taylor to make a larger version to get Universal Pictures exciting about the film, resulting in the creation of a coffee-table size fifty-eight part sculpture that wowed Universal executives when Jackson assembled it in his hotel room.