“I’m not sure there has even been a remake of an already good movie that was better.”
His Girl Friday was a remake of Front Page. The latter is supposed to be decent but I think most people think HGF is better.
Anyway, I haven’t seen any King Kong movie but I look forward to seeing what PJ does with it.
Considering the date on (or around) which this story was announced, I’ll wait a few says before I comment…
Everyone knows it is pluralized MONKEES!
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Scepticism is justified, but there’s history to this one
Back in 1997, Universal Studios closed negotiations with New Zealand director, Peter Jackson, to write and direct a new remake of the 1933 classic, King Kong for a summer of 1998 release.
The ‘script’ is online already.
Guess 1930’s may be a bit late for WWI planes, but you’d still have plenty of biplanes (and given PJ’s likings, WWI planes will be in)
IMHO, anything April Fool news story not dated “April 1” does not “count” as fooling anyone. Also, there were strong rumors a week or so before the news hit.
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also, if someone directly asks if it is a April Fool’s joke and the jokester says no, it negates the joke
ex: jokester(j):There is a 8x8 truck in the parking lot
straight man(sm):wow, wonder what it is doing there
j:why don’t you take a look?
sm:This isn’t an April Fools joke, is it
j:no [<— negates joke here]
sm looks, doesn’t see anything
j:April Fools!
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Brian
no, didn’t happen to me
of course, I fly 20+ year old planes all the time, so I guess model year 1919 planes could be used circa 1935…
Brian
I just skimmed through the online draft of Jackson’s script.
http://geocities.com/scifiscripts3/scripts/kingkong.txt
Looks like he wants to be fairly faithful to the original movie. The script specifies the Empire State Building, Sopwith Camels, lots of dinosaurs, and makes a big issue of Ann having blonde hair. If Jackson can keep the studio moguls from screwing everything up, I have high hopes.
After Lord or the Rings, he should have the same freedom as a Spielberg or Lucas. This can obviously lead to genius(Spielberg) or…well, Lucas.
Plus, even “Lord Of The Rings” was a re-make, assuming you consider that animated version to be a make.
Still - King Kong? Aren’t there some better stories than that out there waiting to be re-filmed? I’ll be he would do a great job on Watership Down…I would even trust him to do a new version of Wizard Of Oz!
Maybe it is because like dman said, there have been so many monkey/ape films of late…seems kinda overdone.
Definitely cool. It’s his dream project and will be made with much love and care, plenty of humor and pathos.
Fay Wray seems to be all for it!
**Fay Wray, star of the original King Kong, has given her blessing to Peter Jackson’s $200 million remake, after years of dismissing other attempts at remaking the 1933 classic. **
Thankyou Equipoise
Now we finally have the answer to the classic question…
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PJ doing Watership Down?:eek:
That’s something 'd never of conceived on my own.
Wasn’t it gory enough already? 