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KONG GETS A PREQUEL AS THE KING OF SKULL ISLAND

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« on: August 02, 2009, 06:25:45 am »



KONG GETS A PREQUEL AS THE KING OF SKULL ISLAND

A production company called Spirit Pictures, which appears to have a connection to groundbreaking early special effects guru Ray Harryhausen, has picked up the rights to the novel Kong: King of Skull Island, by Joe DeVito and Brad Strickland. Published in 2004 (timed to match the release of Peter Jackson's remake), Kong: King of Skull Island is a prequel that tells the backstory of Skull Island before Carl Denham and his movie crew arrived there, including how Kong became King. The story also features other giant gorillas and dinosaurs not seen in other tellings of Kong's story. The rights were brokered through the estate of the family of Merian C. Cooper (the original 1933 film's cowriter and codirector), which owns the rights to King Kong, and also authorized the book itself. Spirit is expecting to produce Kong: King of Skull Island using motion capture technology as seen in movies like Beowulf and The Polar Express. Spirit is also developing a movie called War Eagles, an adventure story about a pilot who crashes in Antarctica and discovers a lost civilization, which was a project Harryhausen had been working on in the 1930s until World War II intervened. No director for Kong: King of Skull Island has been announced yet, and the scripts for both Kong and War Eagles are being written by Andy Briggs, a screenwriter with several scripts under his belt but nothing yet produced.


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